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The 2023 Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP supported CRI programmes. It provides deep dives into the CRI...

For over a decade, WFP has been supporting climate risk insurance as an important piece of the strategy for building women’s economic empowerment. WFP presents its experience...

Summary: Despite accounting for roughly one-third of global emissions, food systems receive a disproportionately low share of climate finance in comparison to other heavy-emitting sectors. The finance...

WFP is a leader in promoting sovereign insurance products that can offer rapid finance to affected communities in the event of major disaster. By connecting climate and disaster risk financing...

A brief on the potential of the Platform for Real-time Impact and Situation Monitoring (PRISM), pioneered by WFP, to inform social protection, with a case study in Cambodia. This brief discusses the use of...

Disaster risk financing when linked with social protection systems can enable faster, more cost-effective and predictable responses to climate shocks. Linking the two at national...

The 2022 Climate Risk Insurance Annual Report highlights key insights and achievements from WFP-supported Climate Risk Insurance (CRI) programmes. It provides deep dives...

WFP is collaborating with a range of public and private sector partners to develop climate risk finance programmes that help governments and vulnerable households to anticipate, absorb and rapidly recover...

Climate change is a risk multiplier – triggering displacement and social tensions, as people compete for scarce resources. In 2021, climate extremes internally displaced 22.3 million...

For smallholder farmers, risks like diseases and malnutrition due to drought could kill their animals—and impact their livelihoods. Livestock insurance helps to cushion the blow, increasing...