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Our new comment The Lancet Infectious Diseases is out: World Bank pandemic bond that failed to pay out for #Ebola or #COVID19 is not an anomaly but the shape of things to come in humanitarian/disaster relief. We need public deliberation and oversight of triggers. thelancet.com/journals/lanin…

From one of my student's final course reflections: "The only thing stopping Jeff Bezos from becoming Santa is greed. He already has our addresses and information and wish lists".

How did African farmers become "global adversely selected" for insurance interventions? Economy & Society Rescaling index insurance for climate and development in Africa tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Excited to be part of this debate on climate finance tomorrow!

Advocating against blockchain contracts for weather insurance in a cryptocurrency news magazine was probably not popular! cointelegraph.com/news/smart-con…

📜1/18 NEW BRIEF: Today we launch "Is climate insurance a #GlobalShield, or does climate-related #LossAndDamage require a different approach?” which asks what role will insurance play in the Global Shield being launched by the G7 and V20 at #COP27. 👇

In 2017, #Kenya turned poverty-targeted #cashtransfers for the elderly into ‘universal’ social pensions. Results? More coverage & transparency; but fast implementation & little registration capacity led to exclusion in poor areas. @aleshaporisky et al sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Excited to share our new paper on how formal #IBLI insurance intersects with existing moral economies and pastoralist strategies, with Ian Scoones Masresha Taye - Gayo Tahira S. Mohamed. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03….

#globalagrifood very cool visualizations of agricultural transformation by Josh MacFadyen edgeeffects.net/data-visualiza…

#globalagrifood - potentially useful data: tradingconsequences.blogs.edina.ac.uk/about/

#GlobalAgriFood looking forward to discussing fair trade plantations with sarah besky next Wednesday!

#globalagrifood another label, this one replete with 19th century mapping. sarah besky

Just added 'On Crises and Peculiar Endurance: Book review of Naomi Klein's "This Changes Everything" to tinyurl.com/qz732xu

@valegakis DId you chip in to the Greek bailout yet? x.com/edrex_/status/…

Early view at EPA: 'Catastrophic fixes: Cyclical devaluation and accumulation through climate change impacts' academia.edu/14913680/Catas…

Call for a "Flat" Anthropocene: CFP Analytics for the Anthropocene: Socioecological futures & scale discardstudies.com/2016/09/14/cfp… via Dr Max Liboiron

Animated short film on my research on index insurance and climate change: vimeo.com/176178818 and NZZ article campus.nzz.ch/node/8375

new fun coauthored paper w/ Birgit Müller and David Kreuer: Maladaptive outcomes of climate insurance in agriculture buff.ly/2uUCTgQ