New crop insurance system in Kenya
March 09, 2010
MICRO-insurance service Kilimo Salama, or “safe farming” in the Kishwali language, was launched in Kenya late last week, using mobile phone payments and solar-powered weather stations to protect farmers with as little as one acre of land from excess drought or rain. Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture, UAP Insurance and telecoms company Safaricom are co-operating in the offering. Marco Ferroni, executive director of the Syngenta Foundation, said that advances in...