This paper presents evidence from a large-scale experiment designed to reduce search costs in randomly selected sub-counties in Uganda by introducing a mobile phone-based marketplace for agricultural commodities.
In this study, AMA Innovation Lab researchers play a series of incentivized laboratory games with risk-exposed cooperative-based coffee farmers in Guatemala to understand the demand for index-based rainfall insurance.
This presentation took place at George Washington University, United States on November 6, 2014 describing how poor market integration in African markets result in barriers to building market linkages.
This presentation took place in University of California Davis, United States describing experimental games trying to better understand demand for incomplete insurance in Guatemala.
The paper explores the context and constraints to fertilizer use among smallholders in Ethiopia, and whether these constraints affect the demand for weather index insurance (WII), designed to insure the cost of input use.
