AMA Innovation Lab research on index-based livestock insurance, originally posted to the UC Davis One Health blog, was highlighted in a new multi-university joint venture. UC San Francisco, UC Berkeley, Stanford and UC Davis are now collaborating on a monthly newsletter covering a wide range of global health research, news, and events.
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.
On February 20, Government of Kenya officials, in partnership with Kenyan insurers, announced payments to over 12,000 pastoral households under a breakthrough livestock insurance plan.
The New York Times featured Andrew Mude, a Kenyan economist and AMA Innovation Lab principal investigator, and his research project on index-based livestock insurance with Michael Carter.
This October 21, 2016 article in Devex features the Index-based Livestock Insurance project in East Africa as an innovative means of protection for pastoralist households.
We are pleased to announce that the AMA Innovation Lab is the proud recipient of the 2016 BIFAD Award for Scientific Excellence in a Feed the Future Innovation Lab.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access is extremely proud to announce that affiliated researcher Dr. Andrew Mude has won the 2016 World Food Prize - Norman Borlaug Award.
A Consortium of International Agricultural Research Centers (CGIAR) recently highlighted the fact drought is one of the largest livestock killers in Kenya and Ethiopia.
