There was mixed evidence of adverse selection on observable baseline characteristics such as past health care utilization and initial health levels of household members.

It is clear that the CCT program, Atención a Crisis, improved individual child development outcomes and that these outcomes have not faded-out two years after the program ended.

Our research indicates that a primary benefit to small farmers of participation in supermarket supply chains may be the decrease in output downside price risk relative to traditional horticulture spot markets.

The IBLI Color Legend has five colors representing the level and trends of the IBLI insurance zones in Marsabit district in Northern Kenya.

This brief examines the parallel but currently separate efforts by the public and private sectors and demonstrate how combining efforts could lead to important synergies and advantages for both sectors.

This brief reports findings of a randomized field experiment that estimated the impact of biometric identification on the behavior of smallholder farmers in Malawi.

Our results, which are consistent with other research regarding FISP, suggest that the most vulnerable people in the communities were not the main recipients of the coupons.

Providing farmers with fertilizer or improved seed varieties can increased yields, leading to higher incomes and a stable or growing asset portfolio for the household. At the request of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and Mozambique’s Ministry of Agriculture, IFDC is implementing such a subsidy program in Mozambique.

If there is to be an eventual phase-out of charcoal and wood fuel production in Uganda, then there must be viable livelihood alternatives for those reliant on income from these activities.

Comparing high-growth treatment households with high-growth control households, we obtain estimates of RBD project impacts that are statistically significant and range up to 18 PPP US$ per person, per month, a level that is some four times the average impact.