● Making food markets work for the poor
● Evaluating the impact of trade policies on value chains, income, and food security
● Measuring and reducing food losses

Advanced parametric financial instruments, like weather index insurance (WII) and risk contingency credit (RCC), support disaster-risk management and reduction in the world’s most disaster-prone regions.

There is a need to undertake more thorough assessments of relevant agricultural machinery markets to determine why machine usage by farmers is potentially lower than it would be under ideal market conditions.

In this study, we contribute to such efforts to enhance the use of tractors in Africa by describing the key characteristics of markets for tractors in Nigeria.

This is the third in a series of Key Facts sheets that IFPRI is producing based on the third and fourth Integrated Household Surveys (IHSs).

Scientists and policymakers have proposed various strategies for managing drought risks in agriculture. This study considers the effectiveness of two such strategies, specifically drought tolerant rice and weather index insurance in Odisha, India.

Our simulation study examined the productivity and economiceffects of planting different seed cultivars and increasing fertilizer application rates at multiple spatial scales formaize in Tanzania.

Custom hiring of labor- and cost-saving agricultural machinery services is increasingly common in South Asia.

The failure of World Trade Organization (WTO) members to reach agreement on reforming domestic agricultural support at the 2017 Ministerial Conference in Buenos Aires is a reminder of how difficult it is to convince countries to give up harmful fa

In practice, however, warehouse receipt financing has generally failed to deliver the benefits to smallholders hoped for by development economists and practitioners.

Fish farming (aquaculture) has grown rapidly in Myanmar over the last two decades and plays an increasingly important role in national fish supply, but its technical and economic characteristics have been little studied.

This research highlight presents findings on access to and use of agricultural credit by farm households in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone. Data was collected by the Rural Economy Agriculture Dry Zone Survey (READZ).

Fish farming (aquaculture) has grown rapidly in Myanmar over the last two decades and plays an increasingly important role in national fish supply, but its technical and economic characteristics have been little studied.

Public infrastructure development since 2011 has been extremely rapid, reflecting changing budgetary priorities at the union level.