World Food Day 2022 is about those who are most affected by food-related crises. Learn about how MRR Innovation Lab researchers are innovating and testing ways to improve rural food security and resilience for all.

A new study using advanced economic modeling has found that adding insurance for families who are not yet poor is the most responsive and cost-effective way to reduce total poverty.

For this International Women’s Day on March 8th, we highlight some of the critical innovations the MRR Innovation Lab is supporting to help women in vulnerable rural communities mitigate the risks they face.

New research supported by USAID is learning whether investments in broadly based resilience helps families to withstand even this completely unexpected and global shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Focusing development programs on women can have impacts that go beyond income and poverty. In Nepal, a Feed the Future research team found that a prominent asset transfer and training program had important impacts on women's empowerment.

AMA Innovation Lab research assistant Savannah Noray recently won an Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA) honorable mention for her master’s thesis on how men’s migration in Nepal affects women’s decision-making power in the household.

On January 4, 2018, UC Davis featured AMA Innovation Lab director Michael Carter's new research on how social protection programs can support resilience among small-scale agriculturalists in developing economies.

On January 4, 2018, ReliefWeb featured a report on AMA Innovation Lab director Michael Carter's new research that found insurance is the most effective way to increase the resilience of poor households facing weather-related risk while preventing other households from falling into poverty.

On April 25, 2017, Heifer International's World Ark Blog featured a evaluation the organization's livestock transfer program in rural Nepal when the 2015 earthquake struck the nation.