Category: Environment
Agricultural insurance gap puts Nigeria’s food security initiatives at risk
Nigeria’s efforts to strengthen agricultural insurance through regulatory reforms are raising hopes of wider protection for farmers, but high premiums [...]
Liberty looks to develop better support for cyclone insurance
Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re) and Celest.Science are to explore the development of a potential fallback methodology intended to support event cha [...]
Governments urged to consider tax reductions if agriculture insurance is to work across Africa
Taxation can be the death knell of microinsurance options across Africa.
Delegates at the International Conference on Inclusive Insurance 2026 in R [...]
Inclusive climate insurance solution launched for Rwanda
An inclusive climate responsive insurance solution for SACCOS (ICRIS) has been launched in Rwanda as part of the government’s bid to increase insuranc [...]
Agricultural insurers have opportunity to protect against food insecurity in years ahead, says Eurobase report
Agricultural insurance is among the most common insurance policies sold in Africa, however, the sector is dominated by smallholder farmers who depend [...]
Insurers must convince populations to use their services to stave off disaster
The challenge of persuading populations to invest in insurance will be among the key themes of the International Conference on Inclusive Insurance (IC [...]
Proposals for a regional insurance risk pool aired in Nairobi
A proposed regional insurance risk pool was among suggestions at the inaugural Climate and Disaster Risk Financing and Insurance (CDRFI) Forum 2026 he [...]
Use parametric insurance revenue cover for hydro-dependent utilities in Africa, urges IDRIMA
The Integrated Disaster Risk Management Alliance (IDRIMA) is urging better use of parametric insurance to protect hydro-electric revenues across the c [...]
Solar boom creates new risk-transfer opportunities for African insurers
Africa’s accelerating solar boom is creating a growing opportunity for insurers and reinsurers to provide the risk protection needed to unlock bil [...]
Burkina Faso widens agricultural insurance to protect livestock
Having already provided cover for maize, millet, sorghum, cowpeas, groundnuts, soya, cotton, sesame, fonio, yams, potatoes and rice, Burkina Faso [...]