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View article: Basis risk, social comparison, perceptions of fairness, and demand for insurance: A field experiment in Ethiopia
Basis risk, social comparison, perceptions of fairness, and demand for insurance: A field experiment in Ethiopia Open
Index insurance lowers agricultural risk but covers only covariate risks. Since farmers do not have complete insurance, they may develop mistrust of insurance when experiencing crop losses and not receiving payouts. Although recent innovat…
View article: Inclusive and gender-transformative seed systems: Concepts and applications
Inclusive and gender-transformative seed systems: Concepts and applications Open
CONTEXT: Seed is vital to the nutrition and livelihoods of millions of women and men small-scale farmers in low- and middle-income countries. Seed systems interventions can significantly enhance food security and nutrition by accelerating …
View article: Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
Women's seed entrepreneurship in aquaculture, maize, and poultry value chains in Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania Open
Seed systems are essential to bring good genetic material to farmers. Women farmers, however, have benefited less than men farmers from seed systems in low and middle income countries. We identify factors that inhibit and promote women's s…
View article: Estimating the intrahousehold costs and benefits of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience
Estimating the intrahousehold costs and benefits of innovations to enhance smallholder farmers’ resilience Open
This paper introduces a new framework to quantify costs and benefits for resilience-related outcomes of agricultural innovations targeting smallholder farmers. The framework employs a non-unitary household model with expected utility to qu…
View article: The Climate–Security Nexus
The Climate–Security Nexus Open
Understanding the climate-security nexus requires framing risks and resilience, which often reflects a negative cycle of fragility, climate vulnerability, and human insecurity. Climate actions, however, can enhance a society’s climate resi…
View article: Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk managment in Kenya
Climate insurance: Opportunities for improving agricultural risk managment in Kenya Open
Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems. It is associated not only with rising average temperatures but also with less predictable weather and changes in humidity, with severe consequences for agricul tural production, …
View article: Framework for behavioral intelligence research in plant breeding
Framework for behavioral intelligence research in plant breeding Open
This issue brief introduces a conceptual framework to describe the factors that inform farmers’ varietal uptake choices, by integrating choice behavior alongside more contextual and technical aspects of seed uptake. The framework was devel…
View article: A gender-responsive approach to designing agricultural risk management bundles
A gender-responsive approach to designing agricultural risk management bundles Open
- Bundling agricultural insurance with risk-reducing agricultural technologies can lower the cost of insurance for farmers, but before implementing bundled solutions, it is important to analyze how these bundles would impact men and women …
View article: Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya
Championing gender in agricultural services in Kenya Open
Key messages:\n• Champion farmers are male and female influencers recruited to support the delivery of agricultural services to fellow farmers within their communities (including seeds, advisories, and crop insurance), thereby promoting ge…
View article: AICCRA Zambia Baseline Survey 2022
AICCRA Zambia Baseline Survey 2022 Open
The baseline survey for AICCRA Zambia was conducted from August to October 2022. The aim of the baseline survey was to (i) identify gendered perceptions of long-term climate change and weather extremes (droughts, floods, etc.) for smallhol…
View article: Is Agricultural Insurance Fulfilling Its Promise for the Developing World? A Review of Recent Evidence
Is Agricultural Insurance Fulfilling Its Promise for the Developing World? A Review of Recent Evidence Open
Innovations in agricultural index insurance have raised expectations that the private sector can overcome shortcomings associated with more traditional indemnity-based products like multiperil crop insurance and strengthen agricultural ris…
View article: See it grow: Monitoring the use of stress-tolerant varieties and seed performance: Picture-based analyses of drought-tolerant seed use and performance in a Kenyan crop insurance project
See it grow: Monitoring the use of stress-tolerant varieties and seed performance: Picture-based analyses of drought-tolerant seed use and performance in a Kenyan crop insurance project Open
Farming is an inherently high-risk activity, and farmers’ livelihoods depend on a set of interlinked environmental factors including weather, soil conditions, disease, pests, and more. Unfortunately, globally, many of the risks in agricult…
View article: Edutainment, gender and intra-household decision-making in agriculture: A field experiment in Kenya
Edutainment, gender and intra-household decision-making in agriculture: A field experiment in Kenya Open
Oftentimes, a man’s opinion is valued over a woman’s, with women expected to take a back seat when decisions are made in their households and in society (Kawarazuka et al., 2019). Such social norms create unequal participation between fema…
View article: Digital innovations: Using data and technology for sustainable food systems
Digital innovations: Using data and technology for sustainable food systems Open
Climate change and associated extreme weather events directly impact the functioning and sustainability of food systems. The increasingly erratic onset of seasonal rainfall and prolonged heat stress during growing seasons are already causi…
View article: Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh
Improving trust and reciprocity in agricultural input markets: A lab-in-the-field experiment in Bangladesh Open
Adoption of high-quality yet more expensive agricultural inputs remains low, in part because most inputs are experience goods: before purchase, buyers observe only price—not quality—providing sellers with opportunities to cheat on quality.…
View article: Migration, labor and women's empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh
Migration, labor and women's empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh Open
As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women. We study how …
View article: Crop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Phone‐based producer survey evidence from Haryana State
Crop prices, farm incomes, and food security during the COVID‐19 pandemic in India: Phone‐based producer survey evidence from Haryana State Open
In March 2020, India declared a nationwide lockdown in response to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Such restrictions on mobility interrupted the normal functioning of agricultural value chains. For a sample of 1767 tomato and wheat producers in the…
View article: Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh
Migration, labor and women’s empowerment: Evidence from an agricultural value chain in Bangladesh Open
As a substantial portion of the rural labor force migrates to urban areas, it is commonly assumed that women could take over traditionally male tasks in agricultural production, with potentially empowering outcomes for women. We study how …
View article: Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology
Overcoming basis risk in agricultural index insurance using crop simulation modeling and satellite crop phenology Open
<p>Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change. Index insurance can theoretically help farmers…
View article: Improving the Performance of Index Insurance Using Crop Models and Phenological Monitoring
Improving the Performance of Index Insurance Using Crop Models and Phenological Monitoring Open
Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally. Whilst index insurance can help farmers cope with the financial consequences of extreme weather, a major challenge for index insurance is …
View article: A new model for inclusive seed delivery: Lessons from a pilot study in Kenya: Leveraging champion farmers’ entrepreneurial know-how to reach the last mile
A new model for inclusive seed delivery: Lessons from a pilot study in Kenya: Leveraging champion farmers’ entrepreneurial know-how to reach the last mile Open
Climate change has exacerbated the frequency and severity of extreme weather events affecting the livelihoods of millions of smallholder farmers across Sub-Saharan Africa. Risks such as increased droughts, pests, floods, and heatwaves are …
View article: The role of asymmetric information in multi-peril picture-based crop insurance: Field experiments in India
The role of asymmetric information in multi-peril picture-based crop insurance: Field experiments in India Open
Smallholder farmers in developing countries generally lack access to affordable agricultural insurance, in part because of high loss verification costs and asymmetric information in indemnity insurance and basis risk in index-based insuran…
View article: Climate-smart crop insurance to promote adoption of stress-tolerant seeds: Midterm findings from a cluster randomized trial
Climate-smart crop insurance to promote adoption of stress-tolerant seeds: Midterm findings from a cluster randomized trial Open
Impact evaluations and cost-benefit analyses often guide investments in agricultural development but determining whether an investment is cost effective in empowering women is a major challenge. The multidimensional, dynamic nature of wome…