Michael Carter

Michael Carter

Position Title
Director, Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience

  • Distinguished Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
  • Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town
  • Co-Director, Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN)
  • ALL-IN Advisory Board Member
Bio

Michael R. Carter is a distinguished professor of agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Davis and honorary professor of economics at the University of Cape Town.  Carter directs the BASIS MRR Innovation Lab and the I4 Index Insurance Innovation Initiative. His research examines poverty dynamics and productive social safety nets, the impact of violence on aspirations and hope, small farm uptake of improved technologies, and features a suite of projects that design, pilot and evaluate index insurance contracts as mechanisms to alleviate chronic poverty.  Carter is a fellow of NBER, BREAD and the American Agricultural Economics Association, and has served on advisory boards for numerous academic journals and international development NGOs. He is co-editor of The Economics of Poverty Traps (U. of Chicago, 2018).