The pdf below provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Laisamis for October 2012 – February 2013 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to Tuesday, March 05, 2013. Laisamis.pdf Continue reading
The pdf below provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Maikona for October 2012 – February 2013 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to Tuesday, March 05, 2013. Maikona.pdf Continue reading
The pdf below provides the update on the predicted livestock mortality index and the summary of the underlying data in Central and Gadamoji for October 2012 – February 2013 (Short Rain Short Dry, SRSD) insurance coverage period based on the data up to Tuesday, March 05, 2013. Central and Gadamoji.pdf Continue reading
The pdf below provides a color coded map of the predicted mortality index in all 5 Marsabit divisions for October 2012, and also posts the index status at the previous 6 potential payment periods. 5IndexAreaMarsabit.pdf Continue reading
On 19 September, IBLI collaborator Michael Carter from the University of California-Davis gave an in-depth presentation at the latest live streamed science seminar held by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). He discussed how index-based insurance is moving forward as a viable policy alternative to insure farmers against risks, … Continue reading
CNN’s Nima Elbagir today reports on the IBLI micro-insurance scheme in northern Kenya that is offering hope to farmers in the region. Speaking on CNN’s Marketplace Africa, Elbagir reports how, now the rains have come, farmers know they must prepare for the next drought that will inevitably come. Fifty-nine-year-old Wacho Yayo lost 10 of his … Continue reading
A new article in the Journal of Risk and Insurance by Sommarat Chantarat, Andrew Mude, Christopher Barrett and Michael Carter describes our index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in Northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main cause of poverty. It describes the methodology used to … Continue reading
In Kenya, the value of the pastoral livestock sector is estimated to be worth 800 million U.S. dollars Livestock insurance scheme developed by pastoralists in partnership with the Nairobi-based International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is helping Kenyan herders to protect their marketable assets. The new book on markets development for African small holder farmers published … Continue reading
Camels mean cash in Kenya. But severe drought routinely kills off livestock, and families go bankrupt, unless they have an innovative insurance plan. Brenda Wandera’s iPhone buzzes in her lap. A text message has made its way through the blurry heat of Kenya’s Chalbi Desert, and it changes her next move. “As soon as we get … Continue reading
Marsabit District — The first thing that hits a visitor to Ginda village in northern Kenya is the smell. Farmer Haro Sora’s land is littered with the carcasses of cattle and donkeys that have collapsed following an intense, prolonged drought. A skull here; half a ribcage there. In some places there are whole animals slumped … Continue reading
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