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Insuring against drought?related livestock mortality: Piloting index based livestock insurance in northern Kenya
Climate related shocks are among the leading cause of production and efficiency losses in smallholder crop and livestock production in rural Africa. Consequently, the identification of tools to help manage the risks associated with climactic extremities is increasingly considered to be amongst the key pillars of any agenda to enhance agricultural growth and welfare in rural Africa.
Input supply system and services for market-oriented livestock production in Ethiopia
Livestock production in Ethiopia has, for long, remained subsistence with limited market-orientation and poor institutional support. Farmers and pastoralists produce and keep animals for various valid reasons, with little market-orientation. However, producing for the market requires re-orientation of the production system and development of a knowledge based and responsive institutional support services.
Innovation Platform: Sidi Bouzid, Tunisia
Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index-based livestock insurance in northern Kenya
Climate related shocks are among the leading cause of
production and efficiency losses in smallholder crop and
livestock production in rural Africa. Consequently, the
identification of tools to help manage the risks associated
with climactic extremities is increasingly considered to be
among the key pillars of any agenda to enhance agricultural
growth and welfare in rural Africa. This paper describes the
application of a promising innovation in insurance design –
index-based insurance – that seeks to bring the benefits of