This paper explores the role of credit market failures in hindering people’s ability to cope with climate shocks, and describes testing of an Emergency Loan.

This study found that index-based livestock insurance increased household income and reduced pastoralists' exposure to downside risk.

This study used a primary data of 820 farm households to examine the relationship between membership of water user association (WUA) and food security, using a quasi-experimental research design. The results indicate a positive association between WUA participation and household food security.

Development of irrigation infrastructure in the Senegal River Valley has led to a large increase in average cultivation rates, though widespread heterogeneity exists across projects. Limited access to water remains a major constraint on production.

The ANGeL program had sustained impacts four years after it ended, increasing the likelihood that women were empowered by four percentage points and reducing intra-household inequality by three percentage points.

This paper defines the first measure of economic resilience based on the cumulative current and future losses a shock-exposed household experiences relative to a counterfactual measure of what household economic well-being would have been absent the shock.

A transfer programme in Bangladesh led to sustained consumption increases and reduced poverty four years post-programme, but design and context mattered.

This paper uses instrumental variable estimates to explore the nexus between on-farm demonstrations, aspiration formation, and food security.

This study examined how locus of control impacted maize farmer uptake of drought-tolerant seed in Mozambique and Tanzania. Farmers with an external locus of control expected to see fewer benefits from new technologies and were less likely to adopt them.

Shifting from an exogenous weather-based to an endogenous yield-based index introduces concerns of asymmetric information, which can lead to market failures that constrain supply from providers. Larger insurance zones inhibit index manipulation, but average yield is less informative about any individual plot. We quantify this tradeoff for maize in Ghana using a spatial yield model calibrated to match observed production.