This case study brief is on Horn of Africa Risk Transfer for Adaptation (HARITA), an innovative project that offers a risk management package for farmers in Tigray, the northern most state of Ethiopia. The project broke new ground in the fields of food security, climate change resiliency and micro-insurance by addressing the needs of smallholder producers through an unusual, yet effective mix of risk reduction, drought insurance and credit.

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