Category: Environment

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Africa’s agricultural insurance market is key to addressing food security

Africa’s agricultural insurance market is key to addressing food security

  Africa’s agricultural insurance markets have grown in recent years, but with a share of only 1.6% of total non-life insurance premiums i [...]
Le marché de l’assurance agricole en Afrique est essentiel pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire

Le marché de l’assurance agricole en Afrique est essentiel pour assurer la sécurité alimentaire

Les marchés africains de l'assurance agricole se sont développés ces dernières années, mais avec une part de seulement 1,6 % du total des primes d'ass [...]
Market must work with regulators to maximise agricultural insurance opportunities

Market must work with regulators to maximise agricultural insurance opportunities

Insurers should work with regulators more closely in terms of sharing data to enable the market to develop and grow in the agricultural space. Emek [...]
No food security without insurance

No food security without insurance

The insurance and reinsurance industries will play a critical role in helping Africa to meet its most pressing agriculture and food security challenge [...]
Africa, agriculture and insurance are undeniably intertwined

Africa, agriculture and insurance are undeniably intertwined

You cannot separate Africa, agriculture and insurance; the continent is unique globally due to almost two-thirds of its population being engaged in ag [...]
Importance of agricultural insurance can be underestimated, suggests AIO president

Importance of agricultural insurance can be underestimated, suggests AIO president

The importance of the agricultural insurance market cannot be overstated, according to the outgoing president of the African Insurance Organisation (A [...]
Floods across east Africa cause havoc but few insurance losses

Floods across east Africa cause havoc but few insurance losses

In Somalia, floods which have persisted from March to May have ravaged shelters, latrines, farmland and livestock. The education of thousands of child [...]
Data company wins funding after African agriculture insurance start

Data company wins funding after African agriculture insurance start

Amini Corp, an early-stage company focused on solving Africa’s environmental data gap through artificial intelligence and satellite technology which s [...]
UK Supreme Court rejects latest claims against Shell on pollution in Nigeria

UK Supreme Court rejects latest claims against Shell on pollution in Nigeria

In a win for the oil majors and their insurers, the UK’s Supreme Court has ruled that it is too late for a group of Nigerian claimants to sue the oil [...]
Swiss Re partners with Kenyan underwriter to launch index-based flood insurance

Swiss Re partners with Kenyan underwriter to launch index-based flood insurance

Global reinsurer Swiss Re has partnered with Kenya’s Britam Holding to launch an index-based flood insurance solution to cushion small-scale farmers i [...]
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