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Index-based livestock insurance as an innovative tool against drought loss
Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) is a donor-funded programme aimed at designing, developing and implementing market-mediated, index-based insurance products to protect livestock keepers, particularly in the drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs), from drought-related asset losses. The IBLI index is based on satellite data, which measure the quality of the pastureland every 10–16 days. These data are inputs to a statistical model of livestock mortality developed using historical data from the region. When evolving range conditions predict livestock mortality in excess of a critical threshold (say 15%) over a predetermined area, the insurance pays contract-holding pastoralists for their losses, allowing them to manage their individual risk. The programme operates under the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) and is delivered by several private sector insurance providers, with financial support from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the European Union.
Perspective Resource Management In Developing Countries: Vol. 3 Ecological Degradation Of Land
v. 2. Population, resources and development -- v.3. Ecological degradation of land
U.S. Foreign Aid
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Political Ecology and Development Projects Affecting Pastoralist Peoples in East Africa
Research paper, field study of agricultural policies and development projects affecting livestock herders in East Africa - looks at land resources, land utilization and land tenure, demographic aspects and nomadic pastoralism; examines the approaches to livestock development; includes case studies of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Tanzania; discusses group ranching (grazing). Bibliography, statistical tables.
