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Policy Brief

Household Structure Determines Labor Investments for Agricultural Intensification in Burkina Faso

01 Jun 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Households who choose to adopt new agricultural technologies have a limited amount of labor they can invest in making those technologies productive and profitable. As part of a broader randomized controlled trial (...

Burkina Faso
Agriculture
Human Capital
Technical Guidance

Village Insurance Savings Accounts in Nepal

01 Jun 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

In many developing countries, microfinance institutions (MFIs) are well established throughout rural areas, with high functioning savings groups already in existence. These groups of about 15-30 members usually meet...

Nepal
Social Protection
Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

Insured Loans Increase Credit Access and Farming Technology Adoption in Ghana

01 Jun 2020
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...

Ghana
Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

Index Insurance Could Effectively and Efficiently Protect Farmers in Ecuador

01 Jun 2020
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...

Agriculture
Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

A Minimum Quality Standard (MQS) to Ensure Index Insurance Contracts Do No Harm

01 Jun 2020
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...

Financial Inclusion
Technical Guidance

Testing Agricultural Index Insurance for Minimum Quality

01 Jun 2020
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...

Financial Inclusion
Policy Brief

Reducing the Strain of Group Microloans with a Small Collateral Requirement

01 Jun 2020
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...

Agriculture
Financial Inclusion
Access to Markets
Policy Brief

The Favorable Impacts of Index-based Livestock Insurance from Ethiopia and Kenya

15 May 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Livestock—the principal store of wealth and source of livelihood for pastoralists living in the arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) of the Horn of Africa— face tremendous risk from the frequent and catastrophic droughts...

Kenya
Ethiopia
Agriculture
Social Protection
Policy Brief

Resilience-based Protection Blunts Climate Change's Impact on Poverty

15 May 2020
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Catastrophic weather shocks, such as severe drought or flood, are an important cause of poverty among rural households in developing economies. As the risk of these shocks is forecasted to increase, national social...

Climate Change
Social Protection
Policy Brief

Improved Seed Use and Farming Practices Sustain after Program Ends in Uganda

15 May 2020
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...

Uganda Agriculture

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