State of the Sector: Agri-Insurance for Smallholder Farmers

State of the Sector: Agri-Insurance for Smallholder Farmers

March 06, 2022

This 2022 State of the Sector update was commissioned by a new partnership of donors—including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Syngenta Foundation, FSD Africa and Swiss Re Foundation—and written by ISF Advisors with support from the Microinsurance Network. The findings of this report were shared and debated in a virtual industry convening of over 130 stakeholders in January 2022. Key ideas and reactions from these discussions have been captured in this report, which sets out to 1) Take stock of the current state of agri-insurance for smallholder households, distilling what has changed in the sector since 2018; 2) Introduce new ways of thinking about the sector in the form of four deep dives; and 3) Propose a set of priority areas to guide work over the next 5 years.