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Is drought index insurance the answer to dying farms?
Experts argue that climate risks undermine productivity and food security. Yet with agricultural insurance, farmers are cushioned against these shocks.
A garden of cassava destroyed by hailstones in Toroma sub-county in Katakwi district. Insurance helps farmers cover such risks.
By: Nelson Mandela Muhoozi, Journalists @New Vision
For more than a decade, Gershom Rutaro, a farmer from Jinja city in eastern Uganda, has planted, cleared and harvested on his land, only to watch drought, erratic