In over sixty years of armed conflict in Colombia, more than 220,000 have died and millions have been displaced, creating poverty and hardship that could last for generations. New research is seeking insights on promoting mobility and resilience even in these extreme environments.
AMA Innovation Lab researchers say losses from cyclone Idai in March, 2019 will have a lasting impact throughout Mozambique after the immediate relief effort has ended, particularly for those who rely on agriculture.
In this Q&A, AMA Innovation Lab investigator Jon Einar Flatnes discusses how this new kind of index insurance works, some of the challenges and opportunities of implementing a new insurance product and the biggest hurdles to achieving the potential of index insurance for agricultural development.
The AMA Innovation Lab has just launched a new project in partnership with the Ghana Agricultural Insurance Pool (GAIP) to improve the quality of agricultural index insurance available to the nation’s small-scale farmers.
A February 14-15, 2019 conference in Uganda convened 85 researchers and regional experts on agricultural insurance implementation and policy for to add to work already underway.
The AMA Innovation Lab has just joined the Microinsurance Network, a worldwide leader in bringing together microinsurance experts to promote effective risk management tools to meet global development objectives.
New AMA Innovation Lab research shows that promoting low-cost but advanced farming methods through agricultural extension can significantly increase food security and resilience, especially when the higher cost of improved inputs keeps them out of reach.
USAID and UC Davis are partnering to establish the world's first quality certification for agricultural index insurance in Kenya. The QUIIC certification will help ensure that products for small-scale farmers across East Africa truly can promote long-term resilience.
More than 300 leaders from world governments, the donor community, researchers and the private sector participated in the ICED “Evidence to Action Conference 2018” in Nairobi on July 24-25 to enhance sustainable collaboration and knowledge sharing and to reinforce demand-driven, evidence-based policy.
In July, 2018 in Tanzania, the AMA Innovation Lab convened insurance leaders from research, government and the private sector to exchange knowledge on effective agricultural index insurance for economic development.
