We are helping our clients - from small farmers to governments - manage development risks through insurance facilities for weather and catastrophic events.

For these farmers - affected by events on world energy markets far beyond their control - the sharp rise in the cost of fertilizers meant their harvest would be reduced.

Half his people live on $1 a day or less, the vast majority of them small farmers.

She said, we have it now at Swiss Re and, of course, The World Bank sponsors crop insurance for farmers.

Incomes doubled: People in project households saw their incomes grow from about US$70 per year per person to about US$200 through agricultural productivity enhancement and diversification.