Farmers who signed up to a livestock insurance scheme could receive their first payments, after the worst drought in the region for 60 years Insurers will assess in October whether Kenyan farmers signed up to the index-based livestock insurance scheme will receive their first payment, after the worst drought in the region for 60 years. … Continue reading
Nairobi — Insurers will assess in October whether Kenyan farmers signed up to the Index-Based Livestock Insurance scheme will receive their first payment, after the worst drought in the region for 60 years. The scheme, which has been piloted in northern Kenya since early 2010, uses freely-available satellite data to assess the state of pastures. … Continue reading
This week, we won a V2030 ICT Innovation Award from the Kenya ICT Board. The announcement said that the “Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) is a promising and exciting innovation in insurance design that allows the risk-management benefits of insurance to be made available to poor and remote clients. The IBLI product being piloted in Marsabit … Continue reading
This week, ILRI’s Andrew Mude introduced an index-based livestock insurance scheme at the ‘Future of Pastoralism in Africa’ Conference. This initiative has been instituted, in partnership with UAP Insurance and Equity Bank, for pastoral herders in Marsabit District, in northern Kenya’s great drylands. This is the first insurance ever offered the Samburu, Gabra, Rendille, Borana, … Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in North Horr for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry,SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to 1-16 Jan. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality Index. Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Loiyangalani for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to 1-16 Jan. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality Index. Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Maikona for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD)insurance coverage period based on the data up to 1-16 Jan. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality Index. Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Laisamis for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to 1-16 Jan. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality Index. Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Central and Gadamoji for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to 1-16 Jan. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality … Continue reading
This page provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Central and Gadamoji for October 2010 – February 2011 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to 19-31 Dec. For information on the definition of these variables, see Livestock Mortality … Continue reading
Index-Based Livestock Insurance 