Savings and Credit Forum

Progress and Challenges in
Inclusive Agriculture Insurance Market Development

Wednesday, 11th of May 2016 

Programme (download)
List of references (download)

Presentations:

Case Study 1:
ACRE Africa’s social business model to insure smallholder farmers in Eastern Africa:
Business model, Outreach, key challenges and prospects.
Benjamin Njenga, ACRE Africa

Case Study 2: Pioneering livestock mortality insurance for marginal farmers in Bangladesh:
Business model, Outreach, key challenges and prospects.
Fazlul Kader, PKSF

Case Study 3: Initial findings from insuring micro enterprises and smallholder farmers in Central America:
Business model, outreach, key challenges and prospects.
Carlos Bölsterli, MiCRO

Case Study 4:
Developing a national agriculture insurance system in Haiti:
Development approach, outreach, key challenges and prospects of the SYFAAH Programme.
Jean-Ives Drolet, FADQDI

Case Study 5: Insurance and other risk mitigation for smallholder farmers in Ethiopia, Senegal, Malawi, and Sambia.
Development approach, outreach, key challenges and prospects of the R4 Rural Resilience Initiative.
Mathieu Dubreuil, World Food Programme

Case Study 6:
Improving national rice insurance markets for smallholder farmers via radar-based remote sensing technology in India, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. Development approach, outreach, key challenges and prospects of RIICE programme.
Michael Anthony, sarmap

Background material:

(uploads June 2016):

- Insurance for Crops in emerging Economies (RIICE)
- An operational remote sensing based service for rice production estimation at national scale
- Assessing value from index insurance for farmers (presentation Michal Matul, May 2016)
- Assessment of the Burkina Faso Project using methodology 1: the safe minimum standards methodology (presentation by Thomas Barré, Michael Carter & Quentin Stoeffler, September 2015)
- Client Value and Microinsurance - Synthesizing 3 years of learning (presentation by Barbara Magnoni, March 2014)