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Samuel Benin

Samuel Benin is the Acting Director for Africa in the Development Strategies and Governance Unit. He conducts research on national strategies and public investment for accelerating food systems transformation in Africa and provides analytical support to the African Union’s CAADP Biennial Review.

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Challenges, solutions in selling agri insurance (Star Kenya)

December 08, 2020

Star Kenya published an article stating that agriculture insurance comes with its own challenges, such as basic risks. The use of the weather index helps in addressing this. Village champions are provided with smartphones in which is installed an app called Seeitgrow. This is a new model and is being implemented by ACRE-Africa in partnership with Kalro, Wageningen University, and IFPRI. 

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