 Hello, everyone. My name is Sibonis Omori. I'm the Director-General's Representative for the International Life-to-Crisis Institute in Italy, based in Ethiopia. I'm here today to contribute to this year's World Food Day theme on social protection and agriculture. I wish to share with you some of Italy's work that helps protect people's livelihoods. Italy's mission seeks to improve food and nutritional security and reduce poverty in developing countries through livestock research. As part of our mission, we work in arid and semi-arid lands where livestock is the store of wealth and also a source of livelihoods. However, these areas are susceptible to frequent droughts, which over the years have become more intense and can be further aggravated by the climate change. And this brings shocks to the system. In 2010, Italy, together with its partners, piloted an index-based livestock insurance in Italy. This was done in northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. This product, this insurance product, seeks to pay out pastoralist or farmers based on predicted deaths of livestock rather than actual deaths and is estimated based on available forage, based on using satellite imager. So how do these payouts help? The payouts help to reduce poverty by reducing the stress cells of livestock in order to raise cash during a drought. And at times it also reduces the pressure for these communities to eat less meals a day. And it also reduces dependence on food aid. And it has also been shown that some of the pastoralists who have bought this insurance have incentives to invest in some of the technologies that improve livestock productivity, therefore resulting in increased production and availability of food and improve the livelihoods as a result of better lives through livestock. And thank you.