LONDON – Environmental scientist Laura Garcia Velez cut her teeth on projects to help Ethiopian farmers insure crops for drought and connect remote Colombian communities to the electricity grid before working for conservation campaigners WWF. Now she’s an analyst for …
Aon plc has partnered with anti-poverty organization Oxfam and insurtech startup Etherisc to launch a blockchain-based platform that provides agriculture insurance for smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka. Nearly 200 Sri Lankan farmers have enrolled to obtain micro-insurance protection against crop …
Aid agencies are tightening security measures in the Middle East and increasingly outsourcing work to local organizations to limit their exposure to multiplying risks across the region. Most if not all international NGOs had already stopped sending expatriate staff into …
