Building Market Linkages for Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

This project aims to combine the market linkage services of a highly reputable private sector brokerage firm with high‐frequency data collection, an innovative digital trading platform and a set of contractual guarantees for smallholder farmers in Uganda.

Evaluating the Socio-economic Impacts of Western Seed’s Hybrid Maize Program in Kenya

This project evaluates the impact of Western Seed Company’s (WSC) hybrid maize program on the welfare of smallholder farmers in Kenya’s mid-altitude regions.

Building Resilience and Assets for Food Security in Bangladesh

This collaborative project will explore how risk-reducing technology, motivated and dedicated savings and indexed pre-approved lines of credit can be combined to provide protection against risk to reduce poverty.

Evaluation of the Welfare Impacts of a Livestock Transfer Program in Nepal

This RCT seeks to permanently increase resiliency and improve the nutritional and economic outcomes for the chronically poor in Nepal.

Household-level Impacts of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Haiti

This RCT will test the household-level impacts of SRI, the effect of coordinated SRI adoption these impacts and the mechanisms behind these coordination effects.

Smart Subsidies to Promote Peer Monitoring of Conservation Agriculture Compliance in Malawi

This project evaluates the impact of the agglomeration bonus incentive scheme on conservation agriculture compliance in Malawi’s Shire Valley basin.

Assessing the Value of Index Insurance for Herders: Comparing NDVI-based Insurance Products in Ethiopia and Kenya

This project examines a range of drought-related indices based on data sources and parameters used by HSNP and IBLI. This will help determine which index is most appropriate for an index insurance product that aims to protect households from drought related shocks.

Agricultural Insurance in Nepal

This feasibility study will determine in what contexts in Nepal the development impacts of insurance-based risk management strategies would be maximized, and will assess whether there is data available to create an effective index for an insurance product.

Bundling Innovative Risk Management Technologies to Improve Nutritional Outcomes of Vulnerable Agricultural Households

This project evaluates new agricultural technologies that stabilize crop yields and rural incomes in the face of environmental shocks that historically have led to decreased food intake and irreversible, long-term negative impacts especially among young children.

Communication, Search, and Mobile Phones: A Telephone Directory Intervention in Tanzania

This project measures the impact of a listing in a paper telephone directory on outcomes for enterprises that support the agricultural sector in rural Tanzania.

A Quasi-Experimental "Post-Mortem" Study of a Discontinued Insurance Product in Haiti

The proposed research aims to review Fonkoze's experience providing a hybrid catastrophe insurance product to 60,000 microcredit clients in Haiti.

Developing a Satellite-based Index to Predict Crop Yields in Smallholder Agriculture in Tanzania

This project develops an innovative satellite-based index which can reliably predict local crop yields.

Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach

This projects demonstrates how biometric technology, specifically fingerprinting, can help improve the functioning of rural credit markets in Malawi.

Financial Initiatives to Help the Poor Manage Agriculture Risk in India

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.

Understanding and Improving Financial Access for the Poor in Ghana

This project seeks to improve access for the poor by identifying mechanisms that create incomplete access, which innovations are effective at expanding access, and finally in looking at the welfare implications of expanded financial services.