Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.
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In March 2023, we interviewed more than 430 active rice millers to assess business disruptions and price changes at the midstream of Myanmar’s most important agricultural value chain. Key findings
Agricultural credit is an important instrument for improving farm productivity, the welfare of farm households, and their resilience to weather-related shocks.
Control over future payouts and willingness to pay for insurance: Experimental evidence from Kenyan farmers
Monitoring the agri-food system in Myanmar: Agricultural crop traders – April 2023 survey
To document changes in the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food value chains, a phone survey of commodity traders was conducted in April 2023 with a sample of 304 traders in 14 states and regions.
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Creating opportunities for youth is a necessary and important strategy to optimally harness the existing demographic dividend.
The present study analyses the income, saving and saving gap among agricultural households (HHs) to understand their investment behaviour, using the data obtained from the NABARD All India Rural Financial Inclusion Survey (NAFIS) 2016-17, which wa
This dataset is a follow-up for households who were visited during Feed the Future I (FtF) Ethiopia end-line Survey 2018 and who participated in land rental market in Tigray and Amhara regions.
Farming is an inherently high-risk activity, and farmers’ livelihoods depend on a set of interlinked environmental factors including weather, soil conditions, disease, pests, and more.
Agricultural credit constraints in smallholder farming in developing countries: Evidence from Nigeria
The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies.
Is agricultural insurance fulfilling its promise for the developing world? A review of recent evidence
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Understanding the adoption of modern cultivars in India: Adoption probability and use intensity
Using a survey of 1,500 farmers, we identify farmer-level constraints to adoption of modern cultivars in Rajasthan, India, and decompose the overall elasticity into the elasticities of adoption probability and use intensity.
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.
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.
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.