On December 1, 2021, the University of Illinois News Service announced results from MRR Innovation Lab research on soil testing and subsidies in Tanzania.
On November 4, 2021, the Global Resilience Partnership (GRP) featured a commentary by MRR Innovation Lab director Michael Carter that shares examples of risk-management tools that help rural families move towards greater prosperity.
On June 7, 2021 UC Davis Magazine featured MRR Innovation Lab research in arid northern Kenya that pairs a graduation program for women with insurance against drought.
This season, the UC Davis Unfold Podcast features MRR Innovation Lab research in northern Kenya that pairs a prominent poverty graduation program with index insurance to keep pastoralist families from falling so deep into poverty that they have no way to recover.
On May 14, 2020, Kenya's The Standard featured a new MRR Innovation Lab partnership with the Kenya-based International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) to advance Africa-based leadership in research and policy evaluation.
In this article on the Chicago Council on Global Affairs Food for Thought blog, MRR director Michael Carter describes the benefits of effective tools to manage risk and the potential to generate Resilience+.
On October 18, 2019, Borgen Magazine featured the new MRR Innovation Lab and its program to study the root causes of poverty and food insecurity with a particular focus on resilience.
On October 13, 2019, VoxDev featured an article by MRR Innovation Lab director Michael Carter and his collaborators about their experiment in Mozambique that showed temporary fertilizer subsidies can have a lasting impact on adoption.
On September 5, 2019, Devex featured the new MRR Innovation Lab at UC Davis as part of the broader shift within USAID toward a focus on resilience. With a growing threat of drought and other weather-related disasters, a focus on resilience creates opportunities to reduce the total number of families in need.
