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Low-Cost Insurance Policies Aim To Prevent Poverty Among Small-Scale Farmers In Kenya
A pilot crop insurance project, recently launched in Kenya, aims to compensate small-scale farmers when crops fail in an effort to break the cycle of poverty, the Business Daily reports. While crop insurance is widely used in the developed world, cost has been a major barrier to offering it to small-scale farmers in the developing world. In addition, "micro-insurance, particularly for agriculture, has largely failed because it offered no immediate benefit to farmers," the newspaper reports (Mbogo, 3/18).
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