A new study using advanced economic modeling has found that adding insurance for families who are not yet poor is the most responsive and cost-effective way to reduce total poverty.
Today, researchers are using the newest generations of satellite and Earth observation technologies to improve agricultural index insurance for development—and those improvements are accelerating.
Poverty graduation programs, which transfer assets and skills, can set women on a path toward higher income and greater empowerment at home, but in the arid rural parts of northern Kenya drought can force them to liquidate their gains so the family can survive.
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.
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access has just launched a $1.4 million project in Kenya to evaluate the impacts of combining programs that offer training, support and aid with affordable insurance to reduce chronic poverty.
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.
On October 21, 2016, Devex featured a Q&A with Andrew Mude about his work establishing the Index-based Livestock Insurance program (IBLI) in Kenya and Ethiopia.
