This Plan of Work and Budget (POWB) for 2018 includes chapters on the following: 1) expected key results, 2) planning for platform effectiveness and efficiency, and 3) platform management.
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This paper assesses the role of the private sector by using the case study of Cambodia to learn specific lessons for increasing the resilience of food systems in the developing world.
Coordinating AgMIP data and models across global and regional scales for 1.5°C and 2.0°C assessments
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) has developed novel methods for Coordinated Global and Regional Assessments (CGRA) of agriculture and food security in a changing world.
Decision‐making for systemic water risks: Insights from a participatory risk assessment process in Vietnam
Here, we evaluate the use of causal modeling and participatory risk assessment to developnational policy on systemic water risks.
Can contract farming in organic basmati rice be a boon to smallholders? Evidence from India
Demand for organic basmati rice (OBR), both at home and abroad, coupled with policy reforms in India have given rise to contract farming (CF) production in that nation. OBR production, however, is highly susceptible to weather and pest risks.
How can organic rice be a boon to smallholders? Evidence from contract farming in India
Demand for organic basmati rice (OBR), both at home and abroad, coupled with policy reforms have given rise to contract farming (CF) production in India. OBR production, however, is highly susceptible to weather and pest risks.
US agricultural policy
Smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere are highly exposed to crises or “shocks” in both their physical and their socioeconomic environments.
Chapter 6 provides important insights into the promises and limits of production risk management through financial mechanisms.
This paper provides some of the first empirical evidence on farmers’ demand for two drought risk–management products: a recently released DT rice cultivar and a more comprehensive DT-WII risk–management bundle.
Picture-based insurance: is it sustainable? Effects on willingness to pay, adverse selection, and moral hazard
This project note hence describes to what extent picture-based crop insurance is viable from an economic point of view, addressing the following questions: (1) Do farmers strategically reduce crop management efforts (that is, does PBI induce moral
The Picture-Based Crop Insurance (PBI) project aims to develop a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verification.
Recognition of take-up and transaction cost challenges in individual microinsurance has led to a surge of interest in group microinsurance. Yet few studies have considered the effect of group insurance on the investment decisions of the insured.
Insuring against droughts: Evidence on agricultural intensification and index insurance demand from a randomized evaluation in rural Bangladesh
It is widely acknowledged that unmitigated risks provide a disincentive for otherwise optimal investments in modern farm inputs.
A4NH flagship 3: Food safety
Food safety is moving rapidly up the development agenda as major new studies reveal its severely under-estimated importance.
El reciente paradigma tecnológico que se está difundiendo a nivel mundial, caracterizado por tecnologías posibles de ser aplicadas a los recursos naturales, presenta importantes oportunidades para los países de menor desarrollo relativo, donde la