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UC Davis Launches $1.4m Project to Help Kenya’s Rural Poor

UC Davis Launches $1.4m Project to Help Kenya’s Rural Poor

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Livestock
Macro-level
Country:
Kenya
A $1.4 million grant from USAID is funding a University of California's project that will use a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the impacts of combining programs that offer training, support, and aid with affordable insurance in Kenya. According to UC Davis , the new project is led by Michael Carter, a professor of agricultural and resource economics and director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access at UC Davis, and Dr. Andrew Mude from the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) in Kenya. Last year, Dr. Mude received the World Food Prize
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Kenya Launches Free Insurance Cover for Pastoralists

Kenya Launches Free Insurance Cover for Pastoralists

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Premium subsidies
Livestock
Macro-level
Country:
Kenya
The Government of Kenya has launched " Kenya Livestock Insurance Program (KLIP)" that will insure 100,000 household against drought by 2019. The program, which is an initiative of the National Government in partnership with local governments and private sector insurance companies, has an objective of reducing the risks of livestock mortality emanating from drought and of building the resilience of vulnerable pastoralists in arid and semi-arid lands (ASALs ) of Kenya through satellite-based index insurance. Under this program, "t he State Department of Livestock purchases premiums on behalf of
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Innovative Index Insurance Solutions – Uruguay
09
Aug

Innovative Index Insurance Solutions – Uruguay

Peter Wrede and Kaavya Krishna
Satellite data
Public/Legal frameworks
Livestock
Macro-level
The risk of drought is one of the biggest threats to livestock production in Uruguay. This is particularly relevant in livestock breeding bases, as the quality of the available pasture directly affects the quality of the livestock, and livestock fertility takes years to recover from bad droughts. In 2011 The World Bank Group (WBG) launched a feasibility study on developing an Index Insurance pilot in Uruguay, funded by the Government of Japan through the Global Index Insurance Facility (GIIF). The study quantified the total number of reproductive livestock units as 3.8 million countrywide
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Innovative Index Insurance Solutions – Uruguay

Innovative Index Insurance Solutions – Uruguay

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Innovative Index Insurance Solutions – Uruguay
Author:
Peter Wrede and Kaavya Krishna
Topics:
Satellite data
Public/Legal frameworks
Livestock
Macro-level
In 2011 The World Bank Group launched a feasibility study on developing an Index Insurance pilot in Uruguay, funded by the Government of Japan through the Global Index Insurance Facility. The study quantified the total number of reproductive livestock units as 3.8 million countrywide, with 315 million USD total sum insured. The corresponding number of livestock producers was estimated at 38,000. The outputs of this technical and financial assistance has allowed the Government of Uruguay to start pilot testing an innovative Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) index insurance to cover
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Favorable conditions for achieving scale, building markets and institutionalize index insurance
19
Jan

Favorable conditions for achieving scale, building markets and institutionalize index insurance

Rachel Sberro-Kessler
Data
Data management
Weather index
Area yield
Micro-level
Macro-level
This post was originally produced during the GIIF Conference held in Paris at the OECD Headquarters. The 6 key lessons learnt that emerge from the panel are as follows: Insurance needs to be part of a value add package that generates higher income for the farmers Governments play a key role in creating markets for agricultural insurance. Experiences in Peru, India and Senegal point to government interventions such as premium support, risk financing, and linkage to credit. There is a need to design and offer the right insurance product. Area Yield Index Insurance may offer an adequate
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New Trends in Agricultual Finance

New Trends in Agricultural Finance

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Data
Other frameworks
Product design
Livestock
Micro-level
Macro-level
Agricultural finance is crucial to support the growth of the agricultural sector. Indeed, it is essential for food security, job creation, and overall economic growth. This synthesis report presents a summary of research studies on five key areas of agricultural finance innovation prepared under the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI), as well as the presentations and discussions of these study findings during the “G20 Roundtable on Innovations in Agricultural Finance” convened on September 9, 2015 in Antalya, Turkey by the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Finance Sub-Group
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Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

Closing the Credit Gap for Formal and Informal Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises

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General
Micro-level
Meso-level
Macro-level
Job creation and economic growth through private sector development have become primary areas of focus for policy makers around the world in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Recent evidence points to the importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs)1 in providing employment across countries. In addition to employing the largest number of people in aggregate, SMEs generate the most new jobs (Ayyagari et al., 2011). But SMEs also face many challenges in day-to-day operations and to grow. Access to finance is often cited as one of the primary obstacles that affect SMEs
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Feasibility Study for Macro and Meso-level Index Insurance - Jamaica

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Country:
Jamaica
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Latin America & the Caribbean

Jamaica faces a variety of natural hazards and, on a combined-hazard basis, is among the most vulnerable countries in the world. It lies in the center of the Atlantic hurricane belt, on a complex area of the northern Caribbean Plate margin, and is subject to tropical rainfall and resulting erosion. Agriculture in Jamaica is vulnerable to various risks from extreme winds, to extreme rain, to droughts. A large part of the agricultural sector, including integrated supply chains as well as small farmers, is absorbing these climate risks, with neither publicly nor privately risk transfer mechanisms

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Feasibility Study for Macro and Meso-level Index Insurance - Dominican Republic

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Dominican Republic
Region:
Latin America & the Caribbean

The recent path of Tropical Storm Isaac in September 2012 caused the destruction of plantain fields in the southern region. This situation forced the national authorities to provide in kind assistance (i.e. planting materials, fertilizers, cleaning labor, land preparation) to the most affected farmers. Although some insurers provide agriculture insurance, the Ministry of Agriculture does not have a pre-defined budget to tackle the negative effects caused by events in the agricultural sector while it faces significant contingent liabilities.

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Haiti launches micro-finance catastrophe insurance program

Haiti launches micro-finance catastrophe insurance program

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Weather index
Hybrid
Product distribution
Micro-level
Meso-level
Macro-level
Country:
Haiti
* World Bank announces $1.7 million funding for program * Designed to insure against hurricanes like Sandy in 2012 By Susana Ferreira PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan 29 (Reuters) - When Hurricane Sandy struck Haiti late last year, the home Guerda Pierre shares with her three children and mother in Cabaret, north of Port-au-Prince, was flooded - and so was the merchandise she sold to make a living. "The books, the food, everything was wet after Sandy," said Pierre. The plantain plants and beans in her garden were also destroyed. But unlike the majority of Haitians, Pierre had an insurance policy.
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