National Agricultural Insurance Policy (NAIP).

This Policy aims at outlining measures to improve the development and growth of agricultural insurance in the country, in order to identify the linkages between the key stakeholders in the agricultural insurance industry, as well as to provide a framework to guide specific policy actions and interventions to ensure effective implementation of proposed interventions necessary to foster development and growth of agricultural insurance for sustainable food and nutritional security. The main purpose of this Policy is to reduce vulnerability of farmers and other value chain actors. Specific outcomes of this Policy include: improving coordination amongst institutions and an enabling environment that fosters the growth and development of agricultural insurance; enhancing the capacity of agricultural value chain actors to enable them cope with risks; generation and use of data to support agricultural insurance and promote research and development, innovation and knowledge management in agricultural insurance. The Policy covers the following sectors: agriculture; fisheries, and the aquaculture activities, and artisanal fisheries; smallholder farming; pastoralism; livestock.