Microinsurance news

Allianz Reinsurance have announced a new technology based approach to crop insurance that they have been working on. In cooperation with software company Sarmap, who specialise in finding ways to better manage earths resources, they have developed radar-based remote sensing software which will not only allow measurement of biomass growth, but also monitors and measures […]

Business News Americas report here that a Swiss Re representative has declared that they will seek to replicate the Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) to provide cover across several Caribbean and Latin American countries in the coming months.

Here’s another great example of microinsurance in action through the use of index-based weather insurance policies for farmers in developing nations. Farmers in Kibwezi, Kenya have become the first to receive a payout from a recently launched drought insurance product sold by Jubilee Insurance.

The Microinsurance Catastrophe Risk Organisation (MiCRO) facility, which was launched in April by a high-profile partnership of companies, is reported (by Microfinance Focus) to have been triggered in Haiti during recent heavy rain and flooding in Haiti. The facility provides a microinsurance product which utilises a parametric trigger to settle claims after specific catastrophes including […]

International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, and Swiss Re Corporate Solutions are to join forces to develop new and innovative index-based insurance products to help ease the impact of weather and natural disasters in developing countries. The products will be particularly targeted at farmers and the agricultural communities in Africa […]

Swiss Re have announced that they are to partner with Oxfam America and the World Food Programme as a founding sponsor and provider of re/insurance to the R4 initiative. The initiative aims to help poor rural communities protect their crops and livelihoods from the risks of climate change.

The spread of index-based weather insurance into the developing world continues apace as new products are launched on a regular basis which allow residents, farmers, business owners and governments to hedge the risks of weather impacting their livelihood. The speed with which weather-index insurance has been adopted puts to shame many developed western nations who […]

We’ve covered a lot of the news regarding the growth of microinsurance in the Philippines, particularly microinsurance for weather and disaster cover pilots, and the Asian country seems to be continuing to adopt insurance for low-income people quicker than many other countries.

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) is encouraging insurers to trial methods to extend agricultural insurance cover to include greater protection against weather related insurance losses in the country. There has been a lot of discussion of the importance of food security recently and China, with its climate and huge population, is particularly exposed.

French NGO PlaNet Guarantee have teamed up with the International Finance Corporation insurance facility the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF) to launch what they are calling the first regional management platform for microinsurance and index insurance in West Africa.