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\"\"<\/a>Farmers in Africa will soon benefit from an insurance package from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, to protect them from natural disasters and weather-related risks that can destroy their livelihoods at a stroke.<\/p>\n

Through its Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF), the IFC says this will help bring affordable, index-based insurance protection to developing countries and emerging markets, where uninsured farmers and herders often struggle to recover from storms, floods or droughts.<\/p>\n

The IFC is providing millions of dollars to cover this insurance for farmers in Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cIFC has conferred millions of dollars in performance-based grants and contracts to help extend weather insurance to tens of thousands of farmers in Africa, protecting them from natural disasters and weather-related risks that can destroy their livelihoods at a stroke,\u201d it says in a press release on July 11, 2011.<\/p>\n

Insurance will pay out if the index is triggered, irrespective of the actual loss, it adds.<\/p>\n

The GIIF has conferred six grants in Africa with commitments of almost $10 million. The IFC says it wants to expand the GIIF into countries such as Ghana, Tanzania, Zambia, and other countries in Africa.<\/p>\n

By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n

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