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ILRI News on insurance

10 Oct 2019

CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia

Goats at the Hargeisa Livestock Market selected for export (photo credit: ILRI/Peter Ballantyne). Agricultural development in Somalia—an important commercial centre in antiquity that in 1991 became stateless and suffered more than two decades of conflict and, more recently, devastating drought—is...

Susan MacMillanTeam leader, Communications, awareness and advocacy

IBLI blog

21 Aug 2019

Novel Kenyan insurance programs recognized for helping women as well as men pastoral herders

Cattle coming in from the fields in the evening in Lhate Village, Chokwe, Mozambique (photo credit: ILRI/Stevie Mann). A recent news article highlights the plight of women pastoralists in Kenya. ‘[F]or women pastoralists—livestock farmers in the semi-arid lands of Kenya—climate change has forced...

Judy KimaniCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

IBLI blog

28 May 2019

Using radio to builds herders’ trust in livestock insurance in Isiolo County

The Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP) insures the livestock of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid counties of Kenya. Implemented with technical assistance from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), KLIP limits livestock losses through early compensation allowing...

Sarah KasyokaCommunications and Knowledge Management Specialist

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Publications on insurance

Journal Article

Published2020

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

Journal Article

Published2019

Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought

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International Livestock Research Institute

Tags: insurance

ILRI News on insurance

CGIAR and Somali officials and donors come together at ICRAF to support agricultural development in Somalia

Novel Kenyan insurance programs recognized for helping women as well as men pastoral herders

Using radio to builds herders’ trust in livestock insurance in Isiolo County

Publications on insurance

Understanding pastoralists’ dynamic insurance uptake decisions: Evidence from four-year panel data in Ethiopia

Pre-feasibility study for an index-based livestock insurance product in Meyumuluke woreda, East Hararghe, Ethiopia

Index-insurance to protect pastoralists from drought shocks

Status of Index-insurance in the IGAD region

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

Does the design matter? Comparing satellite-based indices for insuring pastoralists against drought