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WELFARE IMPACTS OF INDEX INSURANCE IN THE PRESENCE OF A POVERTY TRAP
This paper evaluates the effectiveness of an index-based livestock insurance (IBLI)
product designed to compensate for area average predicted livestock mortality loss in
northern Kenya, where previous work has established ...
Principles of silage making in the subtropics
Brief on Principles of silage making in the subtropics
Novel insurance program offers hope for livestock keepers in drought-prone East Africa
News brief on Novel insurance program offers hope for livestock keepers in drought-prone East Africa
Katharine Downie on measuring resilience in drylands of East Africa
Katharine Downie, Coordinator for the Technical Consortium for Building
Resilience in the Horn of Africa, ILRI, at the side event, “Measuring and
Evaluating Resilience in Drylands of East Africa”. IFPRI 2020 conference ...
An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
Presentation of An Applied Information Economics Approach to Assessing Resilience in the Horn of Africa
To mulch or to munch? Big modelling of big data
African farmers are poorly resourced, highly diverse and aground by poverty traps making them rather impervious
to change. As a consequence R4D efforts usually result in benefits but also trade-offs that constraint ...
Price quality relationships in fodder trading in Niger with special regards to comparison of cowpea and groundnut haulms with concentrates, collected shrubs and grasses
Investigations of price-quality relationships in feed and fodder marketing
can yield crucial information about economic benefits from livestock
production, specific feed demand and supply, opportunities for engaging in
feed ...
Index-based insurance: Lottery ticket or insurance?
Environmental shocks are drivers of poverty as well as a
fact of life in many rural areas of the developing world. In
the developed world, agricultural insurance provides some
protection from such calamities. But conventional ...
Index Based Livestock Insurance in Kenya elearning course introduction
Thomson Lengulisiei from APA Insurance in Kenya introduces the Index Based Livestock Insurance e-learning course.
Dryland restoration scaling project
Brochure on Dryland restoration scaling project