Dawn Butler – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Dawn Butler on 2016-07-19.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what support the Government is providing to micro-insurance schemes in developing countries for the protection of livelihoods from the effects of climate change.

Rory Stewart

DFID’s work on climate resilience includes a number of weather-related microinsurance initiatives and a major research programme on scaling up microinsurance in the agricultural sector.