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Climate-linked insurance a boon for poor farmers
2015-10-08 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: Poor farmers the world over are increasingly falling prey to natural disasters, droughts and torrential rain largely due to climate change. But there is some good news as well. Thanks to new technologies, the widespread use of satellites, and more powerful computers such events can largely be predicted in advance, thus making possible novel and more efficient insurance schemes for those at risk. In earlier times, a natural disaster or sustained inclement weather would be followed by a tedious and...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical