The USAID Reforestation Project, along with the private sector, is using blended finance to decrease deforestation and move toward clean cooking practices.
ATLAS - Adaptation Thought Leadership and Assessments
This profile provides an overview of climate risk issues in Honduras, including how climate change will potentially impact agriculture, water resources, energy, human health, and ecosystems and fisheries. The brief...
Financing Facility for Remittances
, Platform for Agricultural Risk Management
, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Remittances are a significant tool to reduce the impact of agricultural risks. Learn more about the role they play in this report for the Government of Senegal.
Kim, J., Scantlan, J.
, Organizational Authors: Mercy Corps as part of the The Resilience Evaluation, Analysis, and Learning (REAL) Award
Building resilience requires a long-term commitment and an integrated approach to strengthen the capacities of individuals, households, and communities to respond to, recover from, and prevent (where possible) shocks...
Social Protection Approaches to COVID-19: Expert Advice Helpline; DAI Global, GSMA, Centre for Disaster Protection and High-Quality Technical Assistance for Results
Social protection strategies need to evolve in order to effectively manage risks in response to future shocks.
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Conservation agriculture is widely viewed as an important strategy for maintaining healthy soils and improving long-term agricultural productivity, but also has the potential to help in managing waterways that...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Productive asset transfer programs, often involving livestock, are a popular antipoverty program globally. In a randomized controlled trial, we evaluated the impacts of a Heifer International asset transfer program...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
For the poor, the contradiction between gloomy prospects and daily concern for their future welfare can create a difficult conflict. Why plan for the future if you see no hope for improvement? The poor could reduce...
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience
Research has shown that an individual’s beliefs about what she can achieve have an impact on how she invests in her future. Using baseline data from a larger study on an asset transfer program for women in rural...
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 (...
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