# Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDSalon Berlin 2014
- Speaker: Rose Goslinga
- Year: 2014
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Economics
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/rose_goslinga_crop_insurance_an_idea_worth_seeding)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Across sub-Saharan Africa, small farmers are the bedrock of national and regional economies—unless the weather proves unpredictable and their crops fail. The solution is insurance, at a vast, continental scale, and at a very low, affordable cost. Rose Goslinga and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture pioneered an unconventional way to give farmers whose crops fail early a second chance at a growing season.

## Lectures

1. [Crop insurance, an idea worth seeding](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/rose_goslinga_crop_insurance_an_idea_worth_seeding/fb29143b00a1), 10 min (TED's player)