Author Archives: Paul Karaimu
East Africa / IBLI / ILRI / Kenya
ILRI vacancy: research associate (closing date: 15 December 2017)
About IBLI / Climate Change / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / Ethiopia / Insurance / Livestock / Resilience
Largest-ever micro-insurance payout made to Ethiopian pastoralists
Originally posted on ILRI news:
More than 2,250 pastoralists received insurance payouts following the extremely poor rains this year in southern Ethiopia. More than 2,250 pastoralists received insurance payouts following the extremely poor rains this year in southern Ethiopia. Low levels of rainfall have led to the loss of approximately 300,000 livestock in 2017 in…
Drylands / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / IBLI / Insurance / Kenya / Pastoralism / SLS / Small Ruminants
Lessons in extension and outreach from IBLI in Wajir, Kenya
A new research brief by ILRI shares lessons in extension and outreach from the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) project in Wajir, Kenya. Continue reading
About IBLI / Africa / DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / IBLI / ILRI / Impact Assessment / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / Pastoralism / Resilience / SLS
East African herders insure against drought: An impact narrative from Kenya and Ethiopia
Private insurance against drought, common elsewhere in the world, has been successfully piloted in northern Kenya since 2010, as well as in parts of southern Ethiopia. Continue reading
DRYLANDSCRP / East Africa / IBLI / ILRI40 / Insurance / Kenya / Livestock / Pastoralism
Identifying methods of scaling up index-based livestock insurance: Lessons in extension and outreach
About 80% of Kenya’s land is arid or semi-arid lands (ASAL) with the main livelihoods being pastoral, agro-pastoral and subsistence agriculture. Farmers and herders in these areas, among the poorest in the country, suffer from a weak natural resource base in addition to weak institutions and infrastructure. In such cases droughts act as a covariate shock … Continue reading
Index-Based Livestock Insurance 