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Lesson learnt from the implementation of Index-Insurance for livestock in the African drylands: Toward early response and regional scaling
The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya
<p><b>A.</b> The indicated Hhat constructs were expressed in and purified from 293FT cells as described in <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011195#s2" target="_blank">Materials and Methods</a>. Aliquots of each purified protein were analyzed by SDS-PAGE and Western blotting using anti-Flag antibody. EV, empty vector. <b>B.</b> Each purified HhatHAFlagHis construct was incubated with Shh at the indicated concentration in the presence of 100 µM <sup>125</sup>I-iodo-palmitoyl CoA for 1 h at room temperature. <b>C.</b> Each purified HhatHAFlagHis construct was incubated with <sup>125</sup>I-iodo-palmitoyl CoA at the indicated concentration in the presence of 40 µM Shh. Shh protein bands were excised from dried gels and the amount of <sup>125</sup>I-iodo-palmitate incorporation was determined by gamma counting. Graphs represent the average of three experiments corrected for non-specific incorporation of <sup>125</sup>I-iodo-palmitate as described previously <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0011195#pone.0011195-Buglino1" target="_blank">[11]</a>.</p
The favourable impacts of Index-Based Livestock Insurance: Evaluation results from Ethiopia and Kenya
Characterization for index based livestock insurance
Pastoral populations of sub-Saharan Africa are particularly vulnerable to losses in wealth and productive assets via herdmortality shocks. Although conventional insurance mechanisms covering individual losses are not cost effective in low income extensive grazing pastoral communities, index insurance for livestock offers a promising alternative. This paper identifies regions most suitable for an index-based livestock insurance product: areas predicted to have high covariaterisk from drought, high potential demand for a livestock insurance product, and supporting market infrastructure for an insurance product. Our findings support current efforts to implement index insurance in Kenya and Ethiopia, and reveal additional areas for geographic expansion in western and southern Africa
Crowdsourcing for rangeland conditions—Process innovation and beyond
National Science FoundationAtkinson Center for a Sustainable Futur
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