The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, recently partnered with two insurance companies in Cameroon to create agricultural index insurance products. These products offer payments to
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MICROFINANCE PAPER WRAP UP: “Protecting Growing Prosperity: Agricultural Insurance in the Developing World;” from ISF Advisors
This is a summary of a paper published by the Initiative for Smallholder Finance (ISF) Advisors, based on research by Matt Shakhovskoy and Romit Mehta, September 2018, 30 pages, available at:
https://www.raflearning.org/sites/default/files/sep_2018_isf_syngneta_insurance_report_final.pdf
The authors of this paper discuss how agricultural insurance can help smallholder farmers recover from damage to crops and livestock caused by shocks such as extreme weather conditions. According to previous research by ISF, “globally less than