MICROFINANCE AND CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS: THE CASE OF AGROAMIGO IN BRAZIL

Revista de Administração de Empresas

Rafael Magnus Barbosa Moser¹  Lauro Gonzalez¹ 

关键词: Green microfinance;    climate change;    Pronaf;    vulnerability;    Agroamigo;    Microfinanças verdes;    mudanças climáticas;    Pronaf;    vulnerabilidade;    Agroamigo;    Microfinanza ecológica;    cambio climático;    Pronaf;    vulnerabilidad;    Agroamigo;   

DOI  :  10.1590/S0034-759020150404

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

ABSTRACTThis paper reports an empirical case study on the interface between microfinance and climate change actions. Climate change, which until recently seemed a luxury for the microfinance sector, now appears to be crucial for its future. For their low adaptive capacity, the millions of microfinance clients worldwide happen to be the most vulnerable to a changing climate. However, such an arena is still blurred from an academic viewpoint, and inexistent among Brazilian academia. Therefore, by investigating Brazil’s largest rural MFI, Agroamigo, we aim at providing an empirical contribution to green microfinance. The main conclusion is that, albeit Agroamigo offers important links to climate change initiatives, it will need to take better account of specific vulnerabilities and risks to protect its portfolio and clients better from climate change impacts.

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