Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency

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dc.creatorKramer, Berber
dc.creatorHill, Ruth Vargas
dc.date2025-09-03
dc.date2025-09-08T18:56:24Z
dc.date2025-09-08T18:56:24Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T15:23:29Z
dc.descriptionThis policy brief argues that South Africa’s G20 Presidency offers a pivotal opportunity to elevate crop insurance as a core instrument for strengthening climate resilience across Africa. As droughts, floods and weather variability intensify, climate risks increasingly threaten smallholder farmers who rely on rain-fed production, undermining livelihoods and regional food security. The brief highlights crop insurance as a practical risk-transfer mechanism that can safeguard incomes, stabilise food supply, and protect vulnerable households from climate-related shocks. It outlines how crop insurance aligns closely with key G20 working groups—Environment & Climate Sustainability, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Agriculture—each emphasizing adaptation, inclusive risk-sharing and resilient food systems. To realise this potential, the brief calls for investment-enabling policies, innovative financing suited to smallholders, and stronger integration of insurance within climate-risk management strategies, positioning crop insurance as a scalable and actionable priority for South Africa’s G20 agenda.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/176400
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/102974
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSouth African Institute of International Affairs
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.64628/AAJ.6wkxs9tng
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceKramer, Berber; and Hill, Ruth. 2025. Crop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency. SAIIA Policy Brief 16. Johannesburg, South Africa. South African Institute of International Affairs. https://saiia.org.za/research/crop-insurance-for-climate-resilience-priorities-for-south-africas-g20-presidency/
dc.subjectcrop insurance
dc.subjectclimate resilience
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectrisk transfer
dc.subjectextreme weather events
dc.subjectlivelihoods
dc.subjectfood security
dc.titleCrop insurance for climate resilience: Priorities for South Africa’s G20 Presidency
dc.typeBrief

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