Nitin Magima | Helping smallholder farmers dealing with the risk of climate change
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Daniel shares his conversation with Nitin Magima, a fellow Columbia University SIPA MPA-DP graduate working with climate scientists to help protect smallholder farmers worldwide financially from climate change.
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Chapters
1. Intro (00:00:00)
2. Nitin's passion for combining data, climate risks and smallholder farming (00:01:26)
3. How Nitin's love of math led to a career in data analytics (00:03:16)
4. The reality of climate risks for smallholder farmers (00:04:04)
5. The effects of climate risks on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and local food systems (00:06:45)
6. The loss of predictability for smallholder farmers (00:09:35)
7. How can farmers mitigate climate risks? (00:12:21)
8. What is weather index insurance? (00:14:31)
9. What is forecast-based financing? (00:17:25)
10. Getting more smallholder farmers to invest in climate risk mitigation (00:19:51)
11. The problems with asking for success stories for mitigation we hope is never needed (00:23:25)
12. Daniel reflects on the importance of climate risk mitigation (00:25:42)
13. What's next for climate risk management? (00:27:27)
14. Daniel provides his final thoughts (00:28:39)
15. Goodbyes (00:29:31)
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