This research puts emphasis on extending access to all in order to make financial liberalization a strategy that helps all levels of society. The project also informs the development of weather insurance programs worldwide, as well as helps clarify the potential of futures markets to improve farmer welfare.
This three-year program of research, outreach, and education is designed to promote the adoption of improved production practices among Ghanaian smallholders by coupling index insurance with production loans.
The Disseminating Innovative Resources and Technologies to Smallholders (DIRTS) project seeks to understand the barriers that stand between these farmers and more profitable investments.
The USAID-CRII project aims at offering small farmers in the Dominican Republic the tools they need to cope with climate risk and improve their livelihoods.
This project develops and evaluates a risk management program to help East African pastoral households in drought-inflicted areas to cope with current and future climate risks.
This project seeks to understand the spillover effects of index insurance on other members of risk sharing networks, and partners with a local company to market a new insurance product to farmers who experience rainfall shocks.
The research will focus on developing simple, flexible and inclusive index insurance products, and learning how to link them with savings or credit to reduce the impact of basis risk inherent in any index product.
This Index Insurance Innovation Initiative (I4) project explores how index-based insurance products might improve risk management and risk coping for coffee cooperatives and their members.
This study reports the initial results from a pilot project using weather index insurance as a way to expand credit supply and, consequently, fertilizer demand by smallholders.
