Research since the 1990s highlights the importance of tenure rights for sustainable natural resource management, and for alleviating poverty and enhancing nutrition and food security for the 3.14 billion rural inhabitants of less-developed countri
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While formal insurance is widespread in much of the developed world, households in lower-income countries continue to rely heavily on informal risk-sharing networks when faced with unexpected shocks.
Impact of conflict-related violence and presence of armed groups on food security: Evidence from longitudinal analysis in Mali
We assess the impact of conflict exposure on households’ food security in rural areas of Mopti, Mali over the period 2012-17.
Gender, demand for agricultural credit and digital technology: Survey evidence from Odisha
This paper analyzes the potential linkages between innovations in agricultural credit and women’s empowerment. We provide survey evidence of lower baseline demand for agricultural credit among women than men.
Digital tools and agricultural market transformation in Africa: Why are they not at scale yet, and what will it take to get there?
Despite enthusiasm on the potential of digital innovations to transform agricultural markets in Africa, progress made thus far has been limited to small-scale experiments that often fail to scale up.
Using a list experiment to measure intimate partner violence: Cautionary evidence from Ethiopia
While indirect methods are increasingly widely used to measure sensitive behaviors such as intimate partner violence in order to minimize social desirability biases in responses, in developing countries the use of more complex indirect questioning
Norms, gender, and payment method affect extraction behavior in a framed field experiment on community forestry in India
This paper presents results from a framed field experiment in which participants make decisions about extraction of a common-pool resource, a community forest.
Post-program impacts of transfer programs on child development: Experimental evidence from Bangladesh
Evidence shows transfer programs can improve early childhood development (ECD).
This land is her land: A comparative analysis of gender, institutions, and landownership
Most analyses of the gender gaps in landownership are based on one or a few countries in which little discussion is provided of the institutional context.
Assessing feasibility and effects of personalized remote advisories based on smartphone pictures: A formative evaluation in India
This paper provides a formative evaluation of picture-based advisories (PBA), using a cluster randomized trial in the states of Punjab and Haryana in northern India.
The role of asymmetric information in multi-peril picture-based crop insurance: Field experiments in India
Smallholder farmers in developing countries generally lack access to affordable agricultural insurance, in part because of high loss verification costs and asymmetric information in indemnity insurance and basis risk in index-based insurance.
Measuring consumption over the phone: Evidence from a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia
The paucity of reliable and timely household consumption data in many low- and middle-income countries have made it practically impossible to assess how global poverty has evolved during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Social protection and resilience: The case of the productive safety net program in Ethiopia
Improving household resilience is becoming one of the key focus and target of social protection programs in Africa.
China’s rapid rise as a leading global exporter of manufacturing goods since its accession to the WTO in 2001 has been the focus of both admiration and, increasingly, concern, but China is also a large importer of goods, particularly agricultural
Gender, tenure security, and landscape governance: Synthesis of studies of PIM’s Governance of Natural Resources flagship program 2013-2020
Gender relations influence people’s access to, use and management of land and other natural resources. They also influence, and are influenced by, ownership, tenure and user rights to land and forests.
A civil conflict broke out in northern Mali in 2012, which is continuing to the present day. Very little is known about its impact on civilians.
The International Food Policy Research Institute’s International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) supports analysis of long-term challenges and opportunities for food, agriculture, and natural resources at g
Agriculture in Central Asia is vulnerable to climate change due to rising aridity, declining availability of water resources for irrigation, and low adaptive capacity.
Child labour in agriculture remains a global concern. Agriculture is the sector where most child labour is found. Employment of children mostly relates to farm household poverty in developing countries.
Review and synthesis of IFPRI’s PIM funded program of work on agricultural insurance, 2012-2020
This paper reviews and synthesizes IFPRI’s research program on agricultural insurance since 2009, a period that encompasses all the activities for which financial support from PIM was obtained during 2012-2020.