Government Launches Agricultural Insurance Awareness Campaign

In the face of escalating climate change threats and limited capacity to withstand severe droughts, stakeholders believe that agricultural index insurance could be transformative for Zimbabwe’s smallholder farmers. By some estimates, smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe, provide about 70% of the country’s food requirements yet they depend heavily on unpredictable rainfall. This puts both the nation’s […]

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Goromonzi farmers receive insurance cash payout

About 1, 800 Goromonzi smallholder farmers who participated in the agricultural index insurance pilot project received their insurance payout on Wednesday last week at the back of an El Nino-induced drought during the 2023/2024 farming season. Government ministers present at the payout ceremony called for scaling up of the project to cushion smallholder farmers throughout […]

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