This presentation took place in Nairobi, Kenya on February 8, 2017 and seeks to analyze the impacts of Western Seed Company's (WSC) hybrid maize program on the welfare of smallholder farmers in Kenya's mid-altitude regions.
To cope with shocks, poor households with inadequate access to financial markets can sell assets to smooth consumption and ,or reduce consumption to protect assets. Utilizing data from an RCT in Kenya, this paper estimates that on average an innovative microinsurance scheme reduces both forms of costly coping.
This presentation took place at the University of California, Davis on January 23, 2017 describing seed and insurance technology risk management in West Africa.
Social protection programs are designed to help vulnerable populations—including pastoralists—maintain a basic level of wellbeing, manage risk, and cope with negative shocks. The research team uses evidence-based to understand the poverty dynamics in the pastoralist-based economy of northern Kenya’s arid and semi arid lands as a case study to discuss and compare the observed impacts of two different social protection schemes on heterogeneous pastoralist households.
The research team describes the methodology used to design the contract and its underlying index of predicted area-average livestock mortality in Index-based Livestock Insurance. The Principal Investigator describes the contract pricing and the risk exposures of the underwriter to establish IBLI’s reinsurability on international markets.
This presentation took place in Washington DC, United States on June 28, 2016, and was about means-tested cash transfers emerging as the instrument of choice, spreading from middle income early adopters to lower income countries.
This ILRI Research Brief describes the Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) product, piloted in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia since early 2010.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how greater use of improved technologies could raise productivity and welfare in developing countries.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how crop yield index insurance in western Kenya.
This presentation took place in Paris, France on June 25, 2014 describing the possibilities of using index insurance versus traditional responses to major drought shocks.