Jan 29
New FinDev Exchange is out 📬
From Indonesia’s agent networks to human-centered #microfinance and inclusive #indexinsurance, plus publications, jobs, events & more.
Explore: conta.cc/3LTGRRs
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11 Jul 2025
📢 Calling insurers & tech partners!
Our members @OneAcreFund are launching a tender for crop index insurance in 🇷🇼 Rwanda 2026A season — protecting smallholders from drought & floods.
📝 Register by Monday, 14 July: docs.google.com/forms/d/1YJJ…
#IndexInsurance #Rwanda
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6 Feb 2024
📢📢New Open Acess Paper📢📢
Excited to see this paper on #indexinsurance adoption published in Natural Hazards! With Opeyemi Ayinde, Djiby Thiam and Mario Miranda.
Check it out: link.springer.com/article/10…
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3/4 #Indexinsurance is an important tool for protecting farmers against crop losses and other climate-related disasters. Insurance payouts are triggered automatically following certain weather conditions to help farmers recover quicker.
#ClimateResilience #financialinclusion
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2/4 @IPECZW partnered with @IFC_org in Feb 2022 under the @IFC_org Africa Inclusive Insurance Programme to develop agricultural index-based insurance to protect farmers against crop losses and other climate-related disasters.
#IPEC #IFC #WorldBank #IndexInsurance
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1/4 This week in Harare, @IFC_org is providing an 8-day training on #agricultural index insurance to @IPECZW and stakeholders in Zimbabwe, including the @ZimTreasury and the @MoLAFWRD_Zim
#IPEC #IFC #WorldBank #IndexInsurance #ClimateResilience #AfricaInclusiveInsurance
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24 Jan 2023
Last week, @Columbia’s new President-Designate Minouche Shafik toured our beautiful Lamont campus and met with number of groups. IRI’s John Furlow, Tufa Dinku, Dan Osgood & Geneva List briefed her about our work on #climateservices, #indexinsurance & more! 📸 Eileen Barroso
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24 Oct 2022
Our #ICII2022 pre-conference workshops are just hours away! Today we'll focus on #IndexInsurance best practices; ATLAS Life Insurance Simulation; public-private partnership models & coping with #ClimateRisk in #SmallIslandDevelopingStates. Full agenda 👉inclusiveinsurance.org
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6 Oct 2022
Affordable crop insurance can make a big difference for small-scale farmers, but it also has its limitations. The technology that makes #IndexInsurance possible may have new possibilities. A #globaldev thread…
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27 Sep 2022
Ready to present our AgroSuite with AgroView® AgroSoil AgroYield® & #IndexInsurance: #EO #insurance monitoring & increasing #climate #resilience! Today 12-12:40 at the Int. Conf. of #Agricultural #Insurance, #Reinsurance & Brokerage: agroinsconf.com/?page_id=263… @MunichRe @PIK_Climate
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24 May 2022
Zachary Huang, @ColumbiaCompSci PhD student, shares how his research w/ our @OsgoodDan and #indexinsurance team helps track data from smallholder farms to fill “data voids” in Africa: bit.ly/3sSEq4E
ALT Zachary Huang
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23 May 2022
We have a failure to communicate-need #designgrammar to translate farmer need and satellites 4 solutions. See bit.ly/DesignGrammarESA at #LPS22 @esa_eo @WorldBank @wfp @nasa @climatesociety @columbiaclimate @DataSciColumbia #remotesensing #indexinsurance #fbf
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20 May 2022
Women in Kenya's arid rangelands know what drought means for their families. Family Insurance, a low-cost form of #indexinsurance, focuses on the family's collective welfare. According to recent sales data, women see the value.
@USAID @FeedtheFuture
basis.ucdavis.edu/feature/ne…
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18 May 2022
How a research team changed livestock #indexinsurance to make it more responsive to women's needs in Samburu, Kenya.
#EndHunger #globaldev
@FeedtheFuture @ILRI @BOMAProject @ucdavisCAES
basis.ucdavis.edu/feature/ne…
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ADA meets livestock farmers in the north of #Senegal to set up an #indexinsurance scheme to protect livestock in case of drought. Insurance developed by @ibisanetwork, CNAAS and RBM.
#inclusivefinance #microinsurance
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Financial tools to manage risk, like #indexinsurance, can transform people's #farming livelihoods. It's possible now to bundle these tools to meet people's changing needs over time, helping them to move up the ladder of both protection and possibility.
farmingfirst.org/2022/04/mov…
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4 Mar 2022
It has been long, but my first article about #IndexInsurance is finally out 🥳
With Paulo Santos and Vito Frountuto
Landscape #heterogeneity, basis risk and the feasibility of index insurance: An analysis of #rice in upland regions of Southeast Asia🌱🌏
authors.elsevier.com/a/1eh7v…
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15 Dec 2021
The Resilience Model could transform regions where significant #climate risks hold small-scale farmers back. In West Africa, farmers with #indexinsurance increased their cotton planting, and after drought had the means to plant sesame, a quick cash crop.
resilience.ucdavis.edu/case-…
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18 Nov 2021
Great talk about digital innovations and the use of machine learning in agricultural insurances at @iamoLeibniz #KlimALEZ #indexinsurance
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4 Nov 2021
How do we fix #indexinsurance? Work with the farmers themselves. The government of Zambia with @climatesociety and @WFP had meetings all across the country. Check out the impressive list of villages!
fist-cleandat.iri.columbia.e…
@DataSciColumbia @columbiaclimate #cop26glascow
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