ACASA: Commodity-specific risk characterisation using IPCC framework

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has defined risk as a product of the interplay between vulnerability, exposure, and hazard (Figure 1). ACASA is evaluating this approach as one of the methods to characterise commodity-specific risks by considering spatially explicit South Asia data on the nature and evolving patterns of climate hazards, the exposure of smallholder populations, farms, and crop and livestock enterprises, the vulnerability of those populations to identify and prioritise a range of climate adaptation intervention options. In this note, we illustrate this approach for rice and our preliminary results.