Measuring yields accurately is critical for evaluating the impact of interventions that aim to increase agricultural productivity.
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Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change.
In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities.
In July 2016, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and partners launched a three-year evidence-based policy support project to analyze demand for and supply of agricultural extension services in Malawi and help design activitie
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Can markets support smallholder adoption of a food safety technology? Aflasafe in Kenya
In this paper, we test the impact of a simulated market premium for food safety, and of bundling rainfall insurance with an aflatoxin-reducing technology (Aflasafe KE01), on smallholder farmers’ adoption of this technology.
We developed, implemented, and evaluated an innovative personalized advisory service that complements picture-based insurance (PBI), an easy-to-understand low-cost insurance product for visible crop damage.
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Overview of the fertilizer supply chain and market structure in Africa: A cross-country assessment
Agriculture continues to play an important role in African economies.
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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.
Overall, the study shows that large, one-time cash transfers aimed at increasing agricultural investments can significantly impact smallholders’ agricultural production.
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Plans de campagne et transferts d'argent pour les exploitations familiales: Données probantes du Sénégal
Dans l’ensemble, l’étude montre qu’un apport financier unique et important qui cible l’augmentation des investissements agricole peut impacter significativement la production agricole des petits exploitants.