Nitin Magima | Helping smallholder farmers dealing with the risk of climate change

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

• 0:00 Intro
• 1:26 Nitin's passion for combining data, climate risks and smallholder farming
• 3:16 How Nitin's love of math led to a career in data analytics
• 4:04 The reality of climate risks for smallholder farmers
• 6:45 The effects of climate risks on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers and local food systems
• 9:35 The loss of predictability for smallholder farmers
• 12:21 How can farmers mitigate climate risks?
• 14:31 What is weather index insurance?
• 17:25 What is forecast-based financing?
• 19:51 Getting more smallholder farmers to invest in climate risk mitigation
• 23:25 The problems with asking for success stories for mitigation we hope is never needed
• 25:42 Daniel reflects on the importance of climate risk mitigation
• 27:27 What's next for climate risk management?
• 28:39 Daniel provides his final thoughts
• 29:31 Goodbyes