/ Livestock Insurance Content for 51³Ô¹ÏºÚÁÏ Davis en /news/uc-davis-launches-14-million-project-help-kenyas-rural-poor <p>A $1.4 million grant from USAID is targeting poverty in one of the poorest regions of the world. The grant funds a project, recently launched by University of California, Davis, researchers in northern Kenya, that will use a randomized, controlled trial to evaluate the impacts of combining programs that offer training, support and aid with affordable insurance to reduce chronic poverty.</p> <p>Some 1.3 million Kenyans have been experiencing the impact of ongoing drought, the Kenyan government announced last year.</p> February 27, 2017 - 1:49pm Patricia Bailey /news/uc-davis-launches-14-million-project-help-kenyas-rural-poor