posted on 2024-09-05, 23:11authored byMark Davies, Jennifer Leavy
Social protection initiatives, including cash transfers to the poor and improving the rights of the
marginalised, are as much at risk from climate change as other development approaches. They are
unlikely to succeed in reducing poverty if they do not consider both the short and long-term shocks
and stresses associated with climate change. By exploring linkages between climate change
adaptation and social protection in the agricultural sector, IDS researchers have developed the
concept of ‘adaptive social protection’. Studying adaptive social protection involves examining
opportunities that approaches to social protection provide for adaptation, and for developing
climate-resilient social protection programmes.
History
Publisher
IDS
Citation
Davies, M. and Leavy, J. (2007) Connecting Social Protection and Climate Change Adaptation, IDS In Focus 2.3, Brighton: IDS