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Oxfam calls for climate insurance for West African pastoralists

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"Climatic insurance will be a solution because owners of livestock will know that if they lose a part of their herd, they will be reimbursed by an insurance system and they don’t have to rear vast herds," Gilles Marion, Mali country director for the UK based charity, Oxfam, told AlertNet in Dakar.

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Hazards Drought and Desertification
Themes Climate change Insurance and risk transfer
Country and region Mali Niger

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