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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
In this Agrilinks-hosted webinar, participants will gain an overview of agricultural and livestock-based index insurance as a development tool and the emerging evidence base around its efficacy. Participants will also be introduced to a new hands-on tool that will help them understand and incorporate minimum quality standards (MQS) for successful index insurance interventions.
This webinar will introduce the new 3D Client Value Assessment tool, outline its relevance and application, and provide tips for practitioners and researchers on how to use it to assess the value of their products.
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.
On March 15-16th in Accra, Ghana, the AMA Innovation Lab is joining with the International Labor Organization’s Impact Insurance Facility as a part of the activities for the Global Action Network (GAN), to bring together a consortium of partners from the development sector to share their knowledge and technical expertise on agriculture index insurance.
The AMA Innovation Lab and ILO's Impact Insurance Facility as a part of the activities for the Global Action Network (GAN) hosted a conference between partners in the development sector to share knowledge on agricultural insurance in areas such as client and contract value, aggregation for building scale, and the roles government and public organizations play in building value, efficiency, and scale.
International Labour Office, Route des Morillons 4, 1202 Genève, Switzerland
This webinar highlighted three AMA Innovation Lab projects as case studies to provide clear evidence of the need to target improved seed and fertilizer interventions tailored to reflect the variation in soils.
This webinar highlighted three AMA Innovation Lab projects as case studies to provide clear evidence of the need to target improved seed and fertilizer interventions tailored to reflect the variation in soils.
This webinar highlighted three AMA Innovation Lab projects as case studies to provide clear evidence of the need to target improved seed and fertilizer interventions tailored to reflect the variation in soils.
As an activity of the Global Action Network (GAN), the AMA Innovation Lab and the International Labor Organization’s Impact Insurance Facility is convening a consortium of partners from the development sector to share knowledge on agriculture index insurance.
Hotel Fairview, Bishops Road, Nairobi 00100, Kenya
Given that majority of Kenyan farmers are small-scale producers characterized by small land holding and limited use of modern technologies, there is no doubt that the sector will bank on appropriate innovations to increase agricultural output against the ever increasing demand for food.
This conference at UC Davis featured how academic institutions can play a role in delivering on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in three key thematic areas: access to clean energy and water, sustainable food production, and healthy lives and well-being.
Haiti is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world. Enhancing the productivity of staple crops, especially rice, is crucial to improving income and food security among vulnerable rural households.
Discussion and real engagement of the issues was encouraged, and new ideas and synergies emerged from the workshop and bringing this issue of “MIND THE GAP” to the research and policy-making forefront.
The Ronald Reagan Building, Washington, DC 20004, USA
This event included presentations and a panel discussion about how UC Davis agricultural research and innovation is making a difference around the world, in partnership with the U.S. Agency for International Development.
This webinar continued to explore a variety of interventions such as provision, administration and management of subsidies, support for developing infrastructure for effective implementation of insurance programs, investment in collection and sharing of data and consumer education.
While the world has seen much progress in economic growth and poverty reduction over the last few decades, the persistence of extreme poverty and its increased concentration in specific places, in particular sub-Saharan Africa, has stimulated renewed interest in the processes of economic developm
The Almas Conference Center, Washington, DC 20005, USA
The goal of this GAN symposium was to discuss the landscape of agriculture insurance and examine models that can contribute to its sustainable delivery.
This event gathered stakeholders from the Global Action Network (GAN) collaboration between the AMA Innovation Lab and the International Labour Organization's Impact Insurance Facility. This GAN Working Group meeting focused on discussions around the work done by a smaller group of members on key
This webinar series presented a variety of index insurance interventions such as provision, administration and management of subsidies, support for developing infrastructure for effective implementation of insurance programs, investment in collection and sharing of data and consumer education.
At this event, over 50 researchers, government officials, private sectors business representatives, and international policy groups all joined together to report on and discuss this promising tool in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
This webinar looked into consumer education roles of different players in the insurance value chain, discussed issues arising at both individual and community levels and showcased some consumer education interventions.
This webinar explored mechanisms and issues in bundling, and also looked into the possible impact of bundling on pricing and off-take of index insurance and measures of tracking it.
This event was assembled to discuss the state of agriculture insurance, including successes and challenges, as well as impacts and gaps, to explore how the Global Action Network can address these key challenges and gaps through the activities of various working groups and of the GAN as a whole, a
Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico
Motivated by crop yields and input use patterns that are only a small fraction of those seen elsewhere in the world, many sub-Saharan African countries have embarked on perhaps the most significant new development in agricultural policy over the past decade: large scale input subsidy programs aim
Instituto de Investigação Agrária de Moçambique, Maputo, Mozambique
The aim of the workshop was to review progress in the take-up of index-based weather insurance, and to explore the potential of financial instruments such as micro-savings and microcredit as complements to insurance in helping cope with weather shocks.
El taller reúne a individuos clave provenientes de los sectores público, privado, multilateral y académico a fin de promover el intercambio de experiencias e ideas con la meta final de identificar caminos que permitan mejorar el desempeño de los mercados de seguros agrícolas.
The objectives of this meeting were to Understand the principles and processes of scaling agricultural technologies to help improve household nutritional outcomes.
Innovation Lab participants joined USAID staff, research partners in Ghana and across West Africa, and others to assess how co-innovation between U.S. and West African research institutions can contribute to sustainable development in agriculture over the next five years.
The Feed the Future Innovation Labs for Collaborative Research (formerly CRSP) held their Council meeting “Examining Opportunities for Linkages in Collaborative Research, Technology Dissemination, and Human and Institutional Capacity Development” in Dar es Salaam and Morogoro, Tanzania between Mo
USAID and the Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program (AMA CRSP) presented the event Building Resilience and Assets for Food Security: Evidence and Implications for Feed the Future, to be held September 29-30, 2011 in Washington, DC.
Ronald Reagan Building, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20004, USA
To discuss risk transfer innovations and their applications to the Pan-‐Andean region, the I4 Index Insurance Innovation Initiative hosted a convening on the synergies between the public and private sectors for agricultural insurance.
This conference grew out of the challenge to USAID and other development assistance agencies to find mechanisms to connect the poor, especially the chronically poor, to economic growth.
The AMA Innovation Lab, the United States Agency for International Development, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the Micro-Insurance Innovation Facility of the International Labour Organization, and Oxfam America announce the creation of the Index Insurance Innovation
Uninsured risk remains a major hurdle to smallholder farmer investment, productivity growth, and poverty reduction. Index-based insurance is a promising solution. This event will cover lessons learned on agricultural and livestock index insurance pulling from over a decade of USAID-funded research.
This event promoted evidence from rigorous impact evaluations and research and encouraged increased uptake and utilization of research and innovation to influence policy and drive change in African agricultural development.
The fourth Annual Bank Conference on Africa (ABCA) was held at Berkeley, California, on June 5-6, 2017. It covered various topics pertinent to agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa.
