Read this blog about how Family Insurance, with its special focus on women’s risks and responsibilities, increased demand for insurance relative to conventional index-based livestock insurance.

In Samburu, Kenya, MRR researchers are testing "Family Insurance," which they designed to respond to women's needs in taking care of their families during drought.

New research from the MRR Innovation Lab and the International Livestock Research Institute makes it possible to objectively evaluate the potential benefits, costs and risks for a nation to adopt disaster risk insurance.

On June 7, 2021 UC Davis Magazine featured MRR Innovation Lab research in arid northern Kenya that pairs a graduation program for women with insurance against drought.

This season, the UC Davis Unfold Podcast features MRR Innovation Lab research in northern Kenya that pairs a prominent poverty graduation program with index insurance to keep pastoralist families from falling so deep into poverty that they have no way to recover.

In Kenya, the heavy, extended short rains into 2020 have led to flooding for pastoralists in the north, while further south farmers have struggled with drying their harvest and planting under threat of huge swarms of locusts. Climate adaptation and resilience are critical as extreme weather becomes more common across Eastern Africa.