This digital dashboard provides a summary of the various types of innovations available to pastoralists and agro-pastoralists in dryland regions in SPARC focus countries.
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Hydroponics Africa’s simplified hydroponic farming technology enables farmers to produce both food crops and livestock fodder without the use of soil. This technique uses a mineral nutrient solution in a water solvent and has proven to be safe, fast, more economical and, most important, sustainable.
Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) protects livestock keepers in drought-prone arid and semi-arid lands from climate-related losses. Insurance payouts are tied to climatic conditions such as the amount of rainfall and distribution of pasture availability over a season.
PULA partners with local insurance companies and global reinsurance firms to insure farmers and livestock owners against a wide range of climatic risks including drought, excessive rainfall, pests and diseases.