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Prototype tool can help maintain farmers’ involvement in index insurance projects

by Lorna 05. April 2017 index insurance 18
Prototype tool can help maintain farmers’ involvement in index insurance projects
Subsistence farming of maize, groundnut, and millet is the dominating means of livelihood in Tambacounda, a region in eastern Senegal about the size of Denmark. Most smallholder farmers in the region do not have irrigation, so their crops are dependent on rainfall, known as rain-fed agriculture. But rainfall can be good on some years and ...

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