In July, 2018 in Tanzania, the AMA Innovation Lab convened insurance leaders from research, government and the private sector to exchange knowledge on effective agricultural index insurance for economic development.
A Feed the Future AMA Innovation Lab pilot project in Tanzania that pairs drought-tolerant hybrid maize with insurance has found early success with adoption and in-kind payouts.
The Global Action Network (GAN) collaboration between the AMA Innovation Lab and the ILO's Impact Insurance Facility has brought to the forefront one of the greatest challenges facing the advancement of agricultural index insurance: quality.
New results from AMA Innovation Lab index insurance projects in West Africa show that when drought struck in Burkina Faso, the insurance stepped in as a safety net, but in Mali as well farmers invested significantly more in their crops.
AMA Innovation Lab research assistant Savannah Noray recently won an Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) honorable mention for her master’s thesis on how men’s migration in Nepal affects women’s decision-making power in the household.
The 3D Client Value Assessment Tool for agricultural index insurance provides a multi-dimensional understanding of the value proposition for potential or existing clients. The tool incorporates the AMA Innovation Lab's Minimum Quality Standard and the ILO's PACE client value assessment.
As the AMA Innovation Lab continues to work with pilot studies and implementation partners – in both public and private sectors – digital innovations can make what once was infeasible now feasible.
PacDev 2018 at UC Davis convened leading development economists from around the world to present and discuss the future of research and policy on March 10, 2018.
Poverty graduation programs, which transfer assets and skills, can set women on a path toward higher income and greater empowerment at home, but in the arid rural parts of northern Kenya drought can force them to liquidate their gains so the family can survive.
When I think about access to finance for smallholder farmers, I always think of my host father from my time in The Gambia as a Peace Corps Volunteer. At the time, I was frustrated that he would not adopt improved seeds that were more expensive but that could increase productivity.
