Photo: Bernard Pollack
Check out this article in Business Daily about the food-security benefits of crop insurance. For small-scale farmers, a single crop failure can be devastating to their diets and livelihoods as well as to the future of their farms. But crop insurance provides a safety net and a means for farmers to cover the costs of a lost year.
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