DIRISHA project final report shows potential of crowdsourced data for drought early warning
Insurance
Designing livestock insurance subsidy programmes in Ethiopia’s drylands
Xandru Cassar introduces the significance of his research on livestock insurance
Examining the long term impacts of catastrophic drought insurance
Nathan Jensen presented research on the long term impacts of drought insurance on pastoral households in Kenya and Ethiopia
Escaping dryland poverty traps and unlocking prosperity: Lessons from Index-Based Livestock Insurance
How index-based livestock insurance scaled from a small pilot project in Kenya to a design that underpins drought risk management products and policies across Africa.
Introducing Jameel Observatory student – Abdishakur Diriye
Abdishakur Diriye is a PhD. student at the University of Edinburgh’s College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Introducing Nathan Jensen – Jameel Observatory Research lead
Nathan Jensen joins us as Jameel Observatory Senior Research Fellow based at the University of Edinburgh
Livestock insurance for East Africa pastoralists a long term focus of ILRI
This post introduces regional opportunities to scale out index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) in the Horn of Africa
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