Archived Events | Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

Building Smallholder Resilience Through ICT

The MRR Innovation Lab hosted a session at the Global Agriculture Innovation Forum 2021 on September 14th, 2021 at 6am PT, 9am ET.

Promoting Women’s Resilience in Africa’s Arid Regions in the Age of COVID-19

This event was hosted by UC Davis Global Affairs as a Global Conversations series. Promoting Women’s Resilience in Africa’s Arid Regions in the Age of COVID-19, was a one-hour online panel discussion focusing on how empowering women can provide the greatest return on investment for helping families and communities achieve a future free from poverty and food insecurity.

Quality Index Insurance Certification (QUIIC) at ICII2020

Agricultural index insurance is a promising risk-transfer tool for smallholder farmers, allowing them to invest more in productive inputs and recover better in the event of shocks.

Webinar: Generating Resilience+ to Reduce Poverty and Spur Agricultural Growth

This MRR Innovation Lab and Global Resilience Partnership webinar highlights research that is deepening our knowledge of agricultural risk mitigation strategies and expanding our definition of resilience.

Jun 3, 2020 @ 7:00am - 8:30am
Online, Pacific Daylight Time
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Combining Seed & Financial Technologies for Resilient Agricultural Growth - Nairobi, Kenya

This conference in Nairobi, Kenya on the 14th of November 2019 was an opportunity to disseminate the research project's important results and discuss regional policy implications.

Nov 14, 2019 @ 8:30am - 5:00pm
Trademark Hotel - Nairobi, Kenya
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Combining Seed & Financial Technologies for Resilient Agricultural Growth - Washington, DC

This event was an opportunity to present results from a multi-year project in Tanzania and Mozambique that indicates drought tolerant maize seeds provide significant protections against yield losses bolstering the resilience of farmers.

Building and Insuring Assets for Durable Empowerment of Women in Kenya

Researchers at the University of California, Davis in partnership with the BOMA Project in Kenya have combined two effective programs, poverty graduation, and insurance. This event will highlight new data pointing to the promise of this joint intervention to amplify and protect assets, creating resilient graduation from poverty for women and their families.

ICED 2nd Evidence to Action Conference and Exhibition

The aim of this International Center for Evaluation and Development conference is to identify and discuss accountability and responsibilities of stakeholders in the use of evidence to address developmental needs.

Jul 9-12, 2019 @ 8:00am - 5:00pm
University of Ghana, Accra Ghana
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Agricultural Insurance in Uganda: Public and Private Sector Roles and Responsibilities

This two-day conference—hosted by the Uganda Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and Fisheries in conjunction with the AMA Innovation Lab—highlighted ongoing challenges and shared information that will complement and add value to the agricultural insurance work already underway in Uganda.

Resilience in the Face of Poverty Traps

This event expands the discussion on what perpetuates poverty and draws practical conclusions on how we can better design, target and evaluate development policies and interventions to create escapes and promote resilience.

Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Agriculture Insurance in Nepal

Developed as a regional event, representatives of implementing organizations from Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka worked closely with Nepalese organizations to discuss factors that impact agriculture insurance and mechanisms to overcome them.

Index-Based Agricultural Insurance in Mozambique: Recent Experience and Paving the Way Forward

This event brought together AMA Innovation Lab researchers and leaders on agricultural index insurance from industry and governments from Mozambique and other nations to discuss the state of index insurance and its future for development in the region.

Evidence to Action Conference 2018

The International Centre for Evaluation and Development (ICED) in partnership with the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Assets and Market Access (AMA Innovation Lab), and other sponsors is organizing the 1st Africa Conference on Evidence to Action (E2A) in Nairobi, Kenya, from 26 – 27 July 2018.

Evidence to Action: Building Resilience through Graduation Programs

Multi-dimensional “Graduation” programs providing layered interventions that include life-skills training, cash transfers, productive

Jul 25, 2018 @ 8:30am - 3:30pm
United States International University - Africa
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Agricultural Insurance in Tanzania: Public and Private Sector Roles and Responsibilities

Across Africa there is a growing interest in agricultural insurance as a way to protect farmers, lessen reliance on aid, and bolster economic growth. A number of questions remain. What are the best practices to realize the promise of agricultural insurance? How can pitfalls be avoided?

Jul 19, 2018 @ 8:30am - 6:00pm
Ramada Encore Hotel, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
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