Ethiopia is set to receive up to €4 million from the European Investment Bank’s development arm, EIB Global, to develop and expand climate-risk insurance for about 210,000 smallholder farmers, as the country seeks to close a persistent gap in agricultural finance and protect rural incomes from droughts, floods and other weather-related shocks.
Lithuania’s government declared a nationwide “extreme situation” Wednesday following a severe weekend storm that caused extensive damage to crops, livestock and agricultural infrastructure.
Continuous heavy rains this past week have caused widespread agricultural damage across Taiwan, with nationwide losses of about NT$108 million (US$3.4 million) recorded as of 11am today, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
Planting too early or too late can cost farmers part of their harvest. Cameroon’s National Observatory on Climate Change, or ONACC, has now set rainfall and planting windows for the second 2026 farming season across the country’s southern regions, giving producers a tool to reduce weather-related crop losses.
Some Eastern Shore farmers are trying to make their voices heard about deer crop damage, saying they aren't getting enough help from the state to manage the problem.
The ongoing fallout from the drought is impacting farmers’ crops across our state. Yield loss isn’t anything new, but technology made in our state can help prevent crop loss.
On August 16 this year, the first day of the ten-day harvest festival of Onam in Kerala, P. Vijayalakshmi made her way to a restaurant in Thiruvananthapuram. For the first time in her life, the 72-year-old has purchased a ready-to-eat “packet Onam sadhya” or Onam feast rather than preparing it herself.
New Zealand avocado growers are assessing crop losses after temperatures fell to around -5°C on the nights of August 5 and 6. The frost affected orchards in several growing regions, including the Bay of Plenty, as the harvest was building.
Veltha, a Y Combinator S26 Insurtech startup, is building an AI claims adjuster for regulated insurance markets, starting with workers’ compensation and crop insurance.
Recent rainfall has not been enough to make up for the prolonged dry spell, with some farmers expecting significant losses this year.
Agricultural experts say the warning signs had been visible for years, with sugar production falling from 35.9 million tonnes in 2021-22 to 32 million tonnes in 2023-24.
A one-day forum on farm risk lands in Orange on September 22, as drought conditions are forecast to continue across much of the Central West.
Monette Farms is facing a previously unpublicized hurdle in its restructuring effort, as court documents show the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation (SCIC) seeking a payment of $1.9 million to maintain the large farm's 2026 crop insurance coverage in Saskatchewan.
Senior Congress leader, Rajya Sabha MP and former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa on Monday questioned the Centre’s agricultural policies, citing a reported decline in enrolment under the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) and a sharp fall in cotton cultivation in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan.
The floodwaters might be gone, but farmers are now focusing on crop damage.
The new option could provide stronger protection when forage losses coincide with higher replacement feed costs.