On May 11, 2022, VoxDev featured MRR principal investigator Paswel Marenya on the VoxDevTalk podcast to discuss the impacts of pairing stress-tolerant maize with index insurance.
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.
Small-scale farmers in developing economies worldwide may soon have better financial tools to manage the risk of drought with a new AMA Innovation Lab project using ultra-high resolution satellite data.
