Designing index based livestock insurance for managing asset risk in northern Kenya

This paper describes a novel effort at developing index-based insurance for locationaveraged livestock mortality as a means to fill an important void in the risk management instruments available to protect the main asset of pastoralists in the arid and semi-arid lands of Kenya, where insurance marke...

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Main Authors: Chantarat, S., Mude, Andrew G., Barrett, Christopher B., Carter, M.R.
Format: Manual
Language:Inglés
Published: Cornell University 2009
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/780

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