Protect and Invest in Farmers from Ghana

Greetings from Tamale, Ghana! At the time of our last update, the Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture (EUI) project had finished marketing rainfall-indexed insurance to smallholder farmers in northern Ghana, and had measured high demand for the product. The EUI project is currently preparing for the next year of the...

The results are in: high demand for rainfall insurance in northern Ghana Greetings from Tamale, Ghana! At the time of our last update, the Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture (EUI) project was gearing up to market insurance to maize farmers in northern Ghana. Preparations included working with the Ghana Insurers...

Greetings from Ghana’s Northern Region! The Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture team has been very busy since our last update in January. We have completed our brief harvest survey as well as a more comprehensive follow-up survey, and are now marketing a new, commercial insurance product on behalf of the Ghana...

Greetings from Tamale!  We hope that you are staying warm wherever you are and want to thank you again for your generous contributions to, and interest in, our work.  Since we last wrote in September 2010, we've offered additional insurance payouts and continued to progress in our data collection and product...

An update from Tamale We are excited to share some results of the first year and information on current activities taking place in agricultural communities in northern Ghana.  When Rob last wrote, the 2009 agricultural season was starting and IPA was getting ready to support farmers by offering rainfall insurance and...

On June 5 I visited farmers in the small towns surrounding Tamale, the northern region of Ghana which is more desert-like than its lush neighbors to the south. The purpose of this project is to bring farmers out of subsistence farming and protect them from weather calamities. IPA is testing whether farmers will invest more...

Farmers in northern Ghana sometimes struggle to grow enough food each year for their families to thrive. But many believe that these farmers could prosper if only they could afford to invest more, and if they did not face such risks from unpredictable rains. IPA is helping nearly 400 farmers to invest more this year by...