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Jul

A Decade of Agriculture Index Insurance in Africa: Looking Back, Looking Forward

by
Anne Pauline Wangalachi
In August 2020, the GIIF team commissioned a study by the Wageningen University and Research (WuR) to generate lessons learned in perception, adoption, and understanding of agriculture index insurance by firms and smallholders in Kenya, Senegal, and Zambia. The study was recently concluded. A review of the portfolios and experiences among three companies – ACRE Africa (Kenya), Compagnie Nationale d’Assurance Agricole du Sénégal ( CNAAS ), and Mayfair Zambia – reveals successes, opportunities and challenges yet to be overcome in mainstream agriculture index insurance (AII) among farmers across...
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Jul

Improving the Agriculture Sector and Protecting Farmers in Senegal

In May 2020, the World Bank Grroup (WBG) approved a $150 million IDA credit to support Senegal in boosting agricultural productivity and helping build resilient, climate-smart, and competitive food systems while improving the livelihoods of farmers and herders in the extended groundnut basin and agro-pastoral areas. In the country, the WBG’s Agriculture and Livestock Competitiveness Program for Results aims to increase exports of high-value crops such as shelled groundnuts and horticultural products as well as dairy farming productivity and reduce the mortality rate of small ruminants. The...
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Senegal: Innovation and Technology

Date: 
June/2019
Author: 
GIZ, MCII
Language: 
English
Topics: 
Innovation & Technology
The high transaction costs of serving low-income clients in developing and emerging market economies demand innovative and technological advancements. Challenges that inflate operational costs include data collection, processing and management, premium payment mechanisms as well as claims verification and settlement. Index insurance products, mobile payment devices or more accurate weather and agricultural-yield information based on satellite data are examples of innovative approaches that can help to overcome these challenges.
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R4 – Rural Resilience Initiative

Date: 
July/2018
Author: 
WFP
Language: 
English
The core objective of the project is to build the resilience of food-insecure smallholders through an integrated risk management approach which includes weather index insurance, assets creation, credit and savings interventions, and climate services.
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Remote Sensing for Index Insurance: An Overview of Findings and Lessons Learned for Smallholder Agriculture

Content owner: 
IFAD - International Fund for Agricultural Development
Author: 
Coleman, E., Dick, W., Gilliams, S., Piccard, I., Rispoli, F., & Stoppa, A.
Language: 
English/French
Index insurance is a type of agricultural insurance that can serve smallholder agricultural development and risk management by protecting assets and encouraging productive investments. Limited availability, accessibility, quantity and poor quality of data on the ground are some of the primary technical constraints preventing scale-up and sustainability of index insurance. Data were the focus of the project “Improving Agricultural Risk Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Remote Sensing for Index Insurance”. This publication outlines the project, which investigated overcoming issues with ground...
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Remote Sensing for Index Insurance: Findings and Lessons Learned for Smallholder Agriculture

Content owner: 
International Fund of Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Author: 
Coleman, E., Dick, W., Gilliams, S., Piccard, I., Rispoli, F., & Stoppa, A
Language: 
English
Limited availability, accessibility, quantity and poor quality of data on the ground are some of the primary technical constraints preventing scale-up and sustainability of index insurance. Data were the focus of the project “Improving Agricultural Risk Management in Sub-Saharan Africa: Remote Sensing for Index Insurance”. This publication details the project, which investigated overcoming issues with ground data by testing innovative remote sensing methodologies. It describes the different remote sensing options and opportunities available for index insurance, but it also recommends further...
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After Low Rainfall, African Smallholder Farmers Get Payouts of US$1.5 Milllion

Wed, 05/16/2018
Country: 
Ethiopia
Kenya
Malawi
Senegal
Zambia
Poor rainfall in parts of Africa has triggered the largest insurance payout to date for smallholder farmers under the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative (R4), a program launched by the World Food Programme (WFP) and Oxfam America in 2011. African farmers will receive insurance payments totaling US$1.5 million to compensate for weather-related crop losses in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Senegal, and Zambia, Reliefweb reports , according to a WFP press release.
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Assurance agricole basée sur un indice climatique au Sénégal

Assurance agricole basée sur un indice climatique au Sénégal / Weather Index Insurance in Senegal (French)

Content owner: 
Global Index Insurance Facility
Topics: 
Weather index
The video discusses the development of weather index insurance in Senegal, including GIIF's and stakeholders' actions and involvement with index insurance in the country since its onset in 2009. The video is in French.
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French-speaking Workshop on Index Insurance in Senegal

Author: 
Pavis Devahasadin
Language: 
English
In December 2017, 27 participants from various African Francophone nations attended a regional workshop held in Saly, Senegal, to learn about index insurance fundamentals and risk transfer process as well as to discuss and apply the use of agro-climactic data to the design of index insurance products. The five-day workshop entitled, “Fundamentals of Named Peril Index Insurance Risk Transfer Process,” was sponsored by the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), as part of its capacity-building activities intended to stimulate the development and enhancement of index insurance products in...
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Weather Index Insurance in Senegal

Language: 
English/French
Topics: 
Weather index
A new brochure detailing GIIF's involvement with the development of weather index insurance in Senegal is now available for digital viewing. The document contains an overview of GIIF's and stakeholders' actions and tracks the progress of index insurance in the country since its onset in 2009.
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