November 6, 2009 Oxfam provides farm insurance in Africa Play video

(NECN) - Weather has put a damper on the harvest of crops like corn and soybeans.

Farmers have been forced to spend money on things like grain dryers and the hundreds of gallons of propane needed to fuel those machines.

Still -- most American farmers have crop insurance to protect them when the weather doesn't help their output.

And now -- Boston-based Oxfam America is extending similar protection to farmers overseas.

The global development organization has made drought insurance available to about 200 households in Ethiopia.

Oxfam America’s Marjorie Victor works on the program, and joins NECN on Business Day.