Index-based livestock insurance (IBLI), aims to protect against the covariate risk of catastrophic livestock loss due to drought. Understanding what determines access to IBLI by gender can shape strategies to equitably provide access to this and other innovative risk management products.

Based on lessons learned in the first few years of its program, Oxfam America recently formulated an ambitious coordinated SRI intervention that targets entire irrigation blocs, a network of shared canals and drains, with incentives for full SRI adoption.

In this note, we suggest a framework to measure index insurance quality and show how this approach can help design and compare insurance products.

Understanding how farmers make their production choices is essential to designing effective interventions to promote new agricultural technologies to close yield gaps and reduce poverty.

Compared to cash transfers, where it is possible to simply give the poor target population money, asset transfers are clearly more complicated and have more limited scope since not everyone can be a successful small-scale farmer.

The idea of the study is to measure the “all-in” effect first in the first year, and if an effect is found, try to decompose it by changing one intervention at a time in subsequent study years.

The TGP caused an increase in maize yields of 1 ton per hectare perhaps due to the 36 percent higher probability of using improved seeds in the treatment group compared to the control group. Although beneficiaries obtained larger yields, farmers in the control group earned larger profits.

Diante destes argumentos, a questão ultimamente tem sido se subsídios inteligentes e temporários podem contribuir para induzir a mudança tecnológica e reduzir a pobreza em áreas de baixa produtividade agrícola, como o centro de Moçambique.

Given these results and the learning that followed from them, it is perhaps not surprising that farmers continued to utilize fertilizers well after the expiration of the short-term subsidy experiment.

The results from the first sales period in Mali indicated that those farmers who purchased the insurance were more likely to expand their cotton cultivation, increase use of productive inputs and increase the use of seeds.