weather index insurance News

Blue Marble, a London-based insurtech that offers affordable insurance protection for low-income families and small businesses in emerging markets, has launched a weather-index insurance-pilot program for smallholder farmers in rural Pakistan. The pilot program, which will cover 500 farmers, is …

JOHANNESBURG – Happy Letsitsa hasn’t paid off the money he borrowed to survive a 2019 drought that ravaged his maize and sunflower farm in the South African province of Free State. He has no drought insurance. If rains fail again, …