An experiment on social influence in risk-taking among endogenously formed groups in rural Malawi finds decisions by peers are most influential to participants.

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development.

A substantial literature has analyzed the challenges around weather index insurance, yet an important design issue has been generally overlooked.

An examination of the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture: Which have received sufficient attention and which have not?  
 

Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage.

Using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in NW India.

Do impacts of health insurance depend on households' access to informal insurance, as proxied for by mobile money usage in Kenya?

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.