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ILRI News on insurance

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...

IBLI blog

28 May 2019

Sarah Kasyoka

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...

IBLI blog

01 May 2019

policyacademic

Enhancing access to information for women in pastoral areas

A recent CTA workshop on ‘making next-generation ACP agriculture work for women’ identified seven critical success factors to enable women to truly benefit from agriculture: access by women to investment and finance, access to markets, skills support, networking and capacity development, access to...

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