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Liangzhi You

Liangzhi You is a Senior Research Fellow and theme leader in the Foresight and Policy Modeling Unit, based in Washington, DC. His research focuses on climate resilience, spatial data and analytics, agroecosystems, and agricultural science policy. Gridded crop production data of the world (SPAM) and the agricultural technology evaluation model (DREAM) are among his research contributions. 

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Challenges, solutions in selling agri insurance (Star Kenya)

December 08, 2020

Star Kenya published an article stating that agriculture insurance comes with its own challenges, such as basic risks. The use of the weather index helps in addressing this. Village champions are provided with smartphones in which is installed an app called Seeitgrow. This is a new model and is being implemented by ACRE-Africa in partnership with Kalro, Wageningen University, and IFPRI. 

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