IBLI Borena Household Survey Data is publicly available. For more details, visit ILRI Datasets Portal: link to round 1 data link to round 2 data Continue reading
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TAKAFUL Insurance of Africa Monthly Bulletin – Issue 18- July 2014 As part of the activities to roll out the IBLT Cover in Isiolo County in the September–AugustSales Window, IBLT Agents were trained on the product to ease their interaction and sales within the community….read more Continue reading
By Gordon Conway, Stephanie Brittain 06 August 2014 The index based livestock insurance developed by the International Livestock Research Institute has shown promise in helping smallholder farmers insure against the risk of investing in areas of regular drought….read more Continue reading
A new kind of insurance may protect herders against drought Apr 19th 2014 | WAJIR | From the print edition The Economist AS WELL as a cheque for $700, a knowing look passed between Hassan Bashir and Bashir Mohamed, his 80-year-old father. A payment at a ceremony for herders in Wajir, a town near Kenya’s … Continue reading
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation – Fri, 4 Apr 2014 10:30 AM Author: Samuel Mintz LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Researchers in Kenya have developed a pioneering insurance policy for nomadic Muslim livestock herders, which has now delivered its first payout to 101 farmers to compensate them for drought losses. The policy, which was purchased by … Continue reading
By Samuel Mintz, 4 April 2014 AlterNet London — Researchers in Kenya have developed a pioneering insurance policy for nomadic Muslim livestock herders, which has now delivered its first payout to 101 farmers to compensate them for drought losses. The policy, which was purchased by about 4,000 pastoralists in Northern Kenya, was developed by the … Continue reading
International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) researchers have expressed their reservation about plans to make livestock insurance commercially viable in East Africa region. They said the concept posed a challenge because many herders occupy vast remote areas where communication and transport non existence. The experts however believe that the potential to protect pastoralists from drought and … Continue reading
April 3, 2014 The Hindu The son of a camel herder, Hassan Bashir, knows how tough traditional life in Kenya’s arid north is, where pastoralists rely on livestock herds surviving boom and bust cycles of drought. But Mr. Bashir is also an astute entrepreneur, developing Africa’s first livestock insurance scheme to make payouts compliant with … Continue reading
25 March 2014 For the first time in Africa, an insurance policy that combines an Islamic-compliant financial instrument with innovative use of satellite imagery is compensating Muslim pastoralists for drought-induced losses suffered in Kenya’s northeastern Wajir County, where livestock are valued at Ksh 46 billion (USD 550 million). The 30 women and 71 men in … Continue reading
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