Effective policies and programs aiming to reduce poverty require a clear understanding of how people earn their livelihoods.
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Lack of evidence to support decision-making constitutes one of the obstacles to effective and socially responsive development policies.
Background
Multi-component cash transfer programs: Evidence from Mali’s social safety net program (Jigisémèjiri)
Despite falling rates of poverty and child undernutrition in Africa over the last two decades, the absolute number of people living in poverty and the absolute number of undernourished children continue to rise due to population growth (Beegle et
En Afrique, malgré la baisse des taux de pauvreté et de sous-nutrition infantile au cours des deux dernières décennies, le nombre absolu de personnes vivant dans la pauvreté comme le nombre absolu d'enfants sous-nutris continuent d'augmenter en ra
How do perceptions of relative poverty affect women's empowerment? Evidence from Papua New Guinea
How do perceptions of one's relative economic status affect gender attitudes, including support for women's economic participation and their involvement in decision-making within their household and community?
Vietnam has experienced rapid growth in agricultural mechani-zation lately; particularly in the use of tractors and combine-harvesters.
The roles of agroclimatic similarity and returns on scale in the demand for mechanization: Insights from Nigeria
Despite economic transformations and urbanization, declining shares of the workforce employed in the agricultural sector, and gradual growth of agricultural mechanization, production costs in the agricultural sector and food prices remain high in
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.
This project tests two approaches to increasing women’s integration into and returns from cash crop value chains.
There are more than 120 organizations and programs in Malawi working on agriculture that include extension service provision among their main activities.
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.
Since 2014, Digital Green and the Government of Ethiopia have been piloting a project to introduce a community-centric video approach to agricultural extension provision.