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Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
March, 2013
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

This article describes a novel index-based 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 poverty. We describe the methodology used to design the contract and its underlying index of predicted area-average livestock mortality, established statistically using longitudinal observations of household-level herd mortality fit to remotely sensed vegetation data.

Insuring against drought-related livestock mortality: Piloting index-based livestock insurance in northern Kenya

Conference Papers & Reports
December, 2011
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

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

Insuring against drought?related livestock mortality: Piloting index based livestock insurance in northern Kenya

Reports & Research
May, 2011
Kenya
Africa
Eastern Africa

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.