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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Hybrid maize farming has boomed across upland Southeast Asia in the past three decades. Recent studies suggest that the boom has resulted in diverse outcomes across countries.
Demand and supply constraints of credit in smallholder farming: Evidence from Ethiopia and Tanzania
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.
Provision of low-cost credit to the poor through self-help groups (SHGs) has been embraced as a key poverty-reduction strategy in developing countries, but evidence on the impact of this approach is thin.
Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India
Oshida and Haryana States experienced different challenges during India's lockdown due to existing structural differences and state-specific COVID-related policies.
A substantial literature has analyzed the challenges around weather index insurance, yet an important design issue has been generally overlooked.
The feasibility of Picture-Based Insurance (PBI): Smartphone pictures for affordable crop insurance
Smallholder farmers are increasingly exposed to weather extremes but lack access to affordable insurance products for catastrophic crop damage.
Monitoring crop phenology using a smartphone based near-surface remote sensing approach
Using crowdsourced near-surface remote sensing imagery to monitor winter wheat phenology and identify damage events in NW India.
Grants vs. credits for improving the livelihoods of ultra-poor: Evidence from Ethiopia
Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence
Gaps in the evidence should not deter the careful design and implementation of programs and policies to strengthen women’s land rights.
New modalities for managing drought risk in rainfed agriculture: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment in Odisha, India
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.
Spatially-explicit effects of seed and fertilizer intensification for maize in Tanzania
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.