Posts Tagged ‘india’
Farm aid from space
This is the title of my newest Christian Science Monitor article, which is actually about weather-indexed insurance programs in sub-Saharan Africa. All kinds of cool science-and-tech stuff has come together in the last five years to allow big insurance companies to offer super-small insurance policies — low-premiums, comparatively low-payout, to the usually poor, always vulnerable [...]
The camera pans east… A story from India
My friend Anna Ruddock of Britain is traveling India (alone!) for three months, and she’s got a story that I just love so much, I had to share it. Here are two excerpts that should make Shiva as interesting to you as he was to me, and then you’ll want the full story: ….The bar [...]
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