Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI), E-learning Course Launch

Posted on April 21, 2016 by IBLI Africa • 1 Comment

Are you interested in knowing just how Index Based Livestock Insurance works? Lessons on IBLI and the Asset Protection Contract are now just a click away! You can easily access your IBLI lessons from ILRI’s e-Learning portal http://learning.ilri.org/. The IBLI e-Learning course was launched on the 22nd of March 2016 at the International Livestock Research … Continue reading →

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New insurance scheme protects Kenyan farmers

Posted on April 4, 2014 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

A new insurance programme in northern Kenya is helping farmers protect their livelihoods in dry seasons. Farmers who contribute to the scheme will be given payments should their livestock die. The initiative has already been linked to 33 per cent drop in food aid needed in the area. Al Jazeera’s Caroline Malone reports. Watch the … Continue reading →

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Insurer to compensate livestock farmers

Posted on April 4, 2014 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

Takaful Insurance will pay livestock farmers about Sh500,000 for losses incurred during the December to March dry season. The farmers, 30 women and 71 men from Wajir County, are the first to be compensated after they took up the Shariah compliant Index-Based Livestock Takaful (IBLT) cover in August 2013. Continue reading… By John Gachiri, Business daily … Continue reading →

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IBLI project seeks proposals to build a web-based ICT system

Posted on November 4, 2013 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

The IBLI project announces a call for proposals to help build a web-based interface with simulation capacity that will enable the automation of index-generating procedures; the automation of information dissemination across a range of output and format types; a facility for querying the system on historical index trends and other project-relevant data across program locations; … Continue reading →

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IBLI index color coded map based for October 2012

Posted on November 23, 2012 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

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 →

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Livestock insurance helps herders to protect livestock

Posted on May 4, 2012 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

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 →

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Insuring livestock in Kenya, via satellite

Posted on February 27, 2012 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

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 →

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Livestock insurance – A chance to outsmart drought?

Posted on January 11, 2012 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

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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Pioneering insurance for remote livestock herders taking hold in drought-prone areas of Kenya and Ethiopia

Posted on December 2, 2011 by IBLI Africa • 1 Comment

Laurie Goering, a reporter for AlertNet writing from the United Nations climate change meetings in Durban this week, says that pioneering insurance projects are giving remote pastoral livestock herders a way to reduce the risks they face from a changing climate that presents recurring, dramatically severe, droughts. ‘Equipping illiterate migratory herders with drought insurance in one … Continue reading →

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Insurance aims to help herders avoid ‘downward spiral’ from drought

Posted on December 2, 2011 by IBLI Africa • Leave a comment

DURBAN, South Africa (AlertNet) – Equipping illiterate migratory herders with drought insurance in one of the driest regions of drought-prone East Africa might seem a big task, particularly in a region where claims adjustors, cell phone coverage and cash to pay for policies are nearly as rare as rain itself. But a range of such … Continue reading →