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UC Davis Event Weighs in on the Impacts of Animal-sourced Foods

At a UC Davis World Food Center’s May 2019 event, AMA Innovation Lab director Michael Carter opened the afternoon session with a discussion about how financial instruments can help combat malnutrition and alter poverty dynamics in the face of climate change.

Promoting Recovery and Resilience During Conflict in Colombia

In over sixty years of armed conflict in Colombia, more than 220,000 have died and millions have been displaced, creating poverty and hardship that could last for generations. New research is seeking insights on promoting mobility and resilience even in these extreme environments.

Implementing a Quality Revenue Index Insurance Product in Ghana

In this Q&A, AMA Innovation Lab investigator Jon Einar Flatnes discusses how this new kind of index insurance works, some of the challenges and opportunities of implementing a new insurance product and the biggest hurdles to achieving the potential of index insurance for agricultural development.

AMA Innovation Lab Joins the Microinsurance Network

The AMA Innovation Lab has just joined the Microinsurance Network, a worldwide leader in bringing together microinsurance experts to promote effective risk management tools to meet global development objectives.

Africa-based Think Tank Event Highlights the Role of Evidence in Development Policy

More than 300 leaders from world governments, the donor community, researchers and the private sector participated in the ICED “Evidence to Action Conference 2018” in Nairobi on July 24-25 to enhance sustainable collaboration and knowledge sharing and to reinforce demand-driven, evidence-based policy.