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Developing and piloting index based livestock insurance to reduce poverty and vulnerability

In collaboration with various partners, ILRI has pursued a comprehensive research agenda aimed at designing, developing and implementing market mediated index-based insurance products to protect livestock keepers from drought related asset losses they face, particularly those in the drought prone...

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International Livestock Research Institute

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ILRI News on drought

ILRI launches new drought index insurance for resilience in the Sahel and Horn of Africa project

New project to improve agricultural productivity in Zimbabwe

Role of pastoralist social networks in coping with crises: lessons from food aid interventions in Ethiopia

Publications on drought

Mapping as a tool for filling data gaps in grasslands and savannahs

An assessment of the implications of alternative scales of communal land tenure formalization in pastoral systems

Index-insurance to protect pastoralists from drought shocks

Simulating rangeland ecosystems with G-range: Model description and evaluation at global and site scales

Exploring improvements to the design of an operational seasonal forage scarcity index from NDVI time series for livestock insurance in East Africa

Community adaptation of action research designs for land restoration in communal grazing lands

ILRI Projects on drought

Developing and piloting index based livestock insurance to reduce poverty and vulnerability