As a GIIF partner for the development of index insurance in Burkina Faso, PlaNet Guarantee has implemented authorized index insurance solutions to meet the demands of agricultural producers, in particular...
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As GIIF partners for the development of index insurance in Senegal, PlaNet Guarantee and the National Insurance Company of Senegal (Compagnie Nationale d’Assurance Agricole du Sénégal, or CNAAS) have implemented...
As a GIIF partner for the development of index insurance in Mali, PlaNet Guarantee has implemented a range of authorized index insurance solutions responding to the demand of agricultural producers for...
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A landlocked West African country with most of its land in the desert, Mali is sparsely populated, and has a highly undiversified economy. As such, it is vulnerable to commodity price fluctuations and...
Zambia continued to face slower growth in 2016. Tough global conditions have combined with domestic challenges including power outages and tight liquidity. The forthcoming National development plan should...
In Kenya, where more than 96 percent of agricultural land is rain-fed and vulnerable to drought and erratic rain, mitigating weather-related risks for smallholder farmers is an important tool for unlocking...
In Mozambique, agriculture accounts for approximately 32 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) and involves over 81 percent of the population. Yet, only a fraction of Mozambique’s potentially arable...
The risk of drought is one of the biggest threats to livestock production in Uruguay. This is particularly relevant in livestock breeding bases, as the quality of the available pasture directly affects...
This brief talks about the weather-related index insurance market in Sri Lanka. Thirty-two percent of Sri Lanka’s labor force is in the agricultural sector, and it accounts for 10 percent of Gross domestic...
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in the heart of West Africa. Covering an area of 264,000 square kilometers, agriculture comprises the single largest economic sector, employing over 80 percent of the...
PlaNet Guarantee (PG) activities started in 2012 with index insurance for maize and groundnuts. The first year the price of the product was very high and few farmers bought the product. The product was...
In the island nation of Sri Lanka, approximately 38 per cent of the total labor force is engaged in agriculture. While rice remains the main crop and farming rice remains the most important economic activity...
This brief talks about the natural catastrophe and weather index insurance in Haiti. Haiti is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world with earthquakes, hurricanes and flashfloods. MiCRO is...
This brief talks about weather index insurance in Rwanda. Agriculture in Rwanda accounts for one-third of Rwanda’s Gross domestic product (GDP) and constitutes the main economic activity for rural households...
This brief talks about earth quake index in Indonesia. More than twelve million Indonesians live and work in earthquake-prone zones, with economic exposure reaching an estimated 79 billion US dollars...
This brief talks about Sanasa agriculture insurance in Sri Lanka. Historically, agriculture has always been a key economic activity in Sri Lanka, employing over 30 percent of the labor force. As Sri Lanka...