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Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Increasing access to credit can spur the adoption of more productive technologies, but may require reducing risk for both smallholder farmer and lender. In a randomized controlled trial (RCT), we investigated how...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Ecuador and several other Andean countries have prioritized the establishment and strengthening of agricultural insurance markets for smallholder farmers at risk of poverty. At the request of the Ecuadorian...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Risk management and resilience are becoming a focus for how to support and empower agricultural households who are vulnerable to weather-related shocks. Index insurance has shown tremendous promise where conventional...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
An agricultural index insurance contract’s quality is hidden. On its surface, farmers considering a policy or national governments seeking to subsidize coverage have no way to know whether a product has the potential...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
In an experimental game in Tanzania, we tested how a small individual collateral requirement would affect the decision to borrow and individual effort under a group loan. A 20-percent collateral increased individual...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Some development programs are designed on the premise that they can trigger lasting changes in poverty or food security. An intervention in eastern Uganda to increase the use of improved seed varieties and basic...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Agricultural extension promotes improved inputs and more productive farming practices, which could boost food security and reduce poverty in developing countries. We evaluated how a large-scale agricultural...
This report presents findings from the Partnership for Economic Inclusion's 2017 graduation landscaping survey and presents an overview, identifies trends, and provides analysis of implementations of graduation...
USAID’s Resilience in the Sahel Enhanced 2 (RISE 2) results framework indicates the results required to achieve the project goal of chronically vulnerable populations in Burkina Faso and Niger, supported by...
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