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Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya
This article describes a novel indexbased
livestock insurance (IBLI) product piloted among pastoralists in
Northern Kenya, where insurance markets are effectively absent and uninsured risk exposure is a main
cause of ...
Length of Growing Period over Africa: Variability and Trends from 30 Years of NDVI Time Series
The spatial distribution of crops and farming systems in Africa is determined by the duration of the period during which crop and livestock water requirements are met. The length of growing period (LGP) is normally assessed ...
Early assessment of seasonal forage availability for mitigating the impact of drought on East African pastoralists
Pastoralist households across East Africa face major livestock losses during drought periods that can cause persistent
poverty. For Kenya and southern Ethiopia, an existing index insurance scheme aims to reduce the ...
Evaluation of common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) genotypes for drought stress adaptation in Ethiopia
Drought stress linked with climate changeisoneofthemajorconstraintsfacedby
common bean farmers in Africa and elsewhere. Mitigating this constraint requires the
selection of resilient varieties that withstand drought threats ...