In southwest Iowa, the fields can be dry, sloped or have rough soil that is poor for growing corn or soybeans and is prone to ...

The federal government said 199,275 Nigerian farmers have benefited from agricultural risk protection worth about N700 billion over the past two years, in a move aimed at strengthening resilience in ...

Premier Li Qiang has proposed formulating measures to promote the development of agricultural insurance, on top of the progress made to date in this branch of insurance.

As has often been said with farming, “every year is different.” Many times, decisions for the current crop year are based on what happened in the previous year or two. That could be the scenario in ...

The enhanced subsidies that many Americans, including farmers, rely on to purchase health insurance are set to expire at the end of this month. James Davis, 55, who grows cotton, soybeans and corn in ...

The Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research (FFAR) announced the launch of the Resilient Agriculture Finance and ...

Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Association of Ethiopian Insurers (AEI) to strengthen the ...

Berber Kramer receives funding from CGIAR and its funders (https://www.cgiar.org/funders/). She is affiliated with the International Food Policy Research Institute ...

Iowa experts say climate change is causing more frequent and destructive weather, leading to higher insurance rates. Since 1980, Iowa has experienced 86 extreme weather events that each caused at ...

Craig Smiddy, President and CEO, announced the agreement to purchase Everett Cash Mutual (ECM) through a sponsored demutualization, describing it as “reflective of our commitment to continue to pursue ...