Janice Angove

LAGOS (Capital Markets in Africa) – Insurance softens the blows of misfortune. However, many low-income earners lack access to insurance and are thus deprived of the cushioning insurance provides although they are the ones in most need of insurance protection as they have little to fall on. For smallholder farmers, for example, besides the lack of access to insurance leaving them exposed to the varieties of the weather, it can also disincentives them from investing…