This project note discusses findings from a panel phone survey in Malawi in which respondents were asked about their perceptions of the risks and impacts of COVID-19.

This note summarizes perceptions of COVID-19 impacts and risks from a panel phone survey of rural households in eight districts in rural Malawi.

Although sustainable intensification (SI) practices such as intercropping of cereals with legumes are believed to offer productivity benefits to farmers, the adoption of cereal-legume intercropping remains low in Malawi.

This paper reviews different studies on technology adoption in sub-Saharan Africa to understand the determinants of low adoption of improved technologies, with a special focus on Malawi.

In anticipation of the development of a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine—the distribution of which will be a complex and sensitive issue—governments will need to assess the number and location of the most vulnerable people within their populati

Malawi reported its first case of COVID-19 in April and declared a national emergency.

In line with the Maputo Declaration that established the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP) in 2003 and with the 2014 Malabo Declaration, African Union (AU) Member States pledged to conduct a continentwide Biennial Revi

Smallholder farmers may suffer losses from ex-treme weather events, pests and disease. This is expected to worsen in the face of climate change.

Financial instruments such as savings, loans, and insurance are critical tools in managing risk for smallholder farmers across the developing world.

IFPRI, together with partners from India as well as the academic community, pioneered in testing whether smartphone camera data could strengthen insurance products in India.

Risk is considered one of the main barriers to investments in agriculture. The Picture-based Insurance (PBI) project in India, funded by 3ie, evaluates the impact of an innovative insurance scheme.

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.

Smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia, and elsewhere are highly exposed to crises or “shocks” in both their physical and their socioeconomic environments.

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.

The objectives of this study were therefore to respond to government need and assess the extent of fallow and rain fed cropland that can be brought under cereal production during the dry season using surface water irrigation

To feed a growing and increasingly urbanized population, Uganda needs to increase crop production without further exhausting available resources.

The findings highlight the importance of investment in institutional credibility as a precondition to attract women farmers to sign up for WII, particularly in an investment environment characterized by poor governance and weak institutional accou

This study (i) examines the implementation of recent agricultural finance policies and incentives associated with the Nigerian Incentive-based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) and the stimulus funds for boosting agricultural l