Feb 11, 2015
Weather-based insurance ‘could benefit smallholders’ | SciDev.Net
A new report sheds light on how weather-based insurance could be scaled up to benefit millions of smallholders.
CGIAR Climate's insight:
The report by CGIAR’s Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) at the US-based Columbia University was launched last month (26 January) and discusses cases from Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, India and Mongolia.
Researchers examined current operational insurance programmes that have been expanded to cover and transform the livelihoods of thousands or millions of farmers.