SciDev.Net: Kenyan smallholders are ‘micro-insuring’ themselves against crop losses under a scheme launched this month (5 March) that combines mobile phone payment with the use of automated weather stations. The scheme, Kilimo Salama — a Swahili phrase for “safe farming” — aims to give small-scale farmers in Kenya ‘pay-as-you-plant’ insurance, so if they lose their harvest they can still afford farming the following season. Farmers with as little as one acre of land pay an extra five per …