Kenya 
Climate-Smart Agriculture and Weather-Index Insurance in Africa 2026: Pula's 20 Million Farmers and the Carbon Opportunity
Climate change has added severe uncertainty to African rainfall patterns, threatening smallholder yields and livelihoods across the continent. Weather-index insurance, climate-smart agricultural practices, and voluntary carbon markets have emerged as three complementary tools for managing climate risk. Pula Advisors has insured over 20 million farmers using variations of the weather-index approach. This report maps the climate adaptation layer.
Climate change has transformed African agriculture from a sector that faced weather variability to a sector that faces weather unpredictability. Historical rainfall patterns that farmers used for generations have become less reliable. Growing seasons have shifted. Drought frequency has increased in several African regi...
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