Approximately 50 million pastoralists in West Africa depend on rangelands that are increasingly threatened by drought. When forage fails, families face a stark choice: sell their livestock at crisis prices or lose them entirely. A new Policy Brief from the PRISMA project presents a regional index-based livestock insurance scheme designed to change that equation — offering automatic, satellite-triggered compensation across 12 countries before the damage becomes irreversible.
The brief sets out the technical foundations, financial viability, and policy conditions needed to bring this instrument to scale.
Read or download the full Policy Brief below: