CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Restrepo Orjuela, Maria del Pilar |
|---|---|
| Title | Strategies for adaptation to climate change through microfinances: an experimental evaluation in Colombian agriculture |
| Summary | This thesis is developed jointly with a microfinance institution named Crezcamos which is one of six microfinance institutions participating in a climate change project entitled Microfinance for Ecosystem-based Adaptation (MEbA), implemented jointly by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Frankfurt School in the Andean region of Colombia and Peru. The MEbA project seeks to provide microfinance services to vulnerable small-scale farmers in the Andes to enable them to invest in activities related to maintaining ecosystem sustainability while improving their income as well as their adaptive capacity to climate change. This thesis seeks to analyze the effects that the level of climate change risk and impact has on the willingness of Colombian farmers to invest, through microfinances, in strategies to adapt anticipatively to climate change. The methodology combines experimental economic games, surveys and interviews with farmers who cultivate three different crops: coffee, cocoa and citrus. |
| Supervisor | Pinter Laszlo |
| Department | Environment Sciences and Policy MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/restrepo_maria.pdf |
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