{"id":276834,"date":"2019-05-23T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T06:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=facdc43a0355f755ff704d6cb9285b69"},"modified":"2026-09-21T11:48:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T15:48:01","slug":"reuters-ethiopian-farmers-used-livestock-insurance-after-drought-wiped-out-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276834","title":{"rendered":"Reuters: Ethiopian farmers used livestock insurance after drought wiped out crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 a Thomson Reuters Foundation feature from Arba Minch followed farmer Manza Bulacho and others who turned to insured cows after drought destroyed crops in southern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-434588\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Reuters: Ethiopian farmers used livestock insurance after drought wiped out crops\" \/>\n<p>The story explained index or livestock insurance products marketed as a buffer when rains fail, and it showed both hope and skepticism among farmers who had to understand premiums, payouts, and delays.<\/p>\n<p>Climate risk tools were already a donor favorite; the test was whether payouts arrived fast enough to stop distress sales of animals.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as climate and agriculture archive, the insured-cows feature dates an early private-risk experiment beside traditional safety-net wheat distributions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ethiopia-climatechange-insurance\/feature-milking-it-ethiopian-farmers-fight-drought-with-insured-cows-idUSL5N22Y3QF\">Reuters \/ Thomson Reuters Foundation (draft syndication)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FEATURE-Milking it? Ethiopian farmers fight drought with insured cows&nbsp;&nbsp;ReutersARBA MINCH, Ethiopia, May 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; After farmer Manza Bulacho&#8217;s crops were wiped out in a drought that devastated parts of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":434588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Ethiopia-to-export-wheat-while-there-is-domestic-shortage-Fowg4A1aIAE9vyk.jpg?fit=1080%2C809&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a14","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754872,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276834\/revisions\/754872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}