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Index Insurance and Cash Transfers: A Comparative Analysis from Northern Kenya
Cash transfers and index insurance have become popular interventions by development agencies
worldwide. But they operate in radically different ways. In principle, these could offer complementary or
substitute means of ...
Using satellite data to insure camels, cows, sheep and goats: IBLI and the development of the world’s first insurance for African pastoralists
This sample size was distributed across the 16 sub-locations in Marsabit on the basis proportional allocation using
the 1999 household population census statistics. There were only two exceptions to this rule: a minimum ...
Country Report on farmers profiles and assessment of options for land restoration based on tree plantations. Kenya – Data of 2018
This report analyzed socioeconomic and tree’s experiment data in Kenya for the year 2018. It provides an overview of the main factors which are enabling tree’s survival rates in the studied areas and shed light on the most ...
Mid-term review inception report: Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
This report is the results of the mid-term review for the EU-IFAD project "Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale" ...
Mid-term Evaluation Final Report: Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale
The final report of Mid-term evaluation of EU-IFAD Grant project "Restoration of degraded land for food security and poverty reduction in East Africa and the Sahel: taking successes in land restoration to scale".
Operationalizing payments for ecosystem services for pastoralists in rangeland settings
Payments for ecosystem services (PES) schemes are gaining popularity as an environmental and development policy
tool. Spurred by environmental motives, different financial and non-financial incentive schemes are designed ...
How Basis Risk and Spatiotemporal Adverse Selection Influence Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from Northern Kenya
Basis risk – the remaining risk that an insured individual faces – is widely acknowledged as the Achilles Heel of index insurance, but to date there has been no direct study of its role in determining demand for index ...
Scoping protocol for operationalizing payment for ecosystem services for pastoralist rangelands
This document describes a protocol for scoping the possibilities for PES in rangelands. It is meant to guide national government agencies, and facilitators hired by them, to undertake a rapid, country-level assessment on ...