In 2011, a massive drought in Sub-Saharan Africa claimed the lives of Huka Bidu’s entire herd of cows. Determined not to begin again from nothing, the pastoralist and father of two in the southern Ethiopian village of Malble Yabello purchased a livestock insurance policy.
A Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) recently highlighted the fact drought is one of the largest livestock killers in Kenya and Ethiopia.