This paper defines the first measure of economic resilience based on the cumulative current and future losses a shock-exposed household experiences relative to a counterfactual measure of what household economic well-being would have been absent the shock.

A transfer programme in Bangladesh led to sustained consumption increases and reduced poverty four years post-programme, but design and context mattered.

This paper uses instrumental variable estimates to explore the nexus between on-farm demonstrations, aspiration formation, and food security.

This study examined how locus of control impacted maize farmer uptake of drought-tolerant seed in Mozambique and Tanzania. Farmers with an external locus of control expected to see fewer benefits from new technologies and were less likely to adopt them.

Shifting from an exogenous weather-based to an endogenous yield-based index introduces concerns of asymmetric information, which can lead to market failures that constrain supply from providers. Larger insurance zones inhibit index manipulation, but average yield is less informative about any individual plot. We quantify this tradeoff for maize in Ghana using a spatial yield model calibrated to match observed production.

An examination of the effect of the Ghana government’s flagship program known as the One-Village-One-Dam (1V1D) initiative on the livelihoods of rural farmers in Northern Ghana. Challenges such as insufficient water storage and poor dam maintenance hindered the dams' effectiveness for irrigation and livestock rearing. The shallowness of most of the dams meant that they dried up during the dry season and therefore did not have a significant effect on crops and livestock productivity.

This study investigates the relationships between financial inclusion, gender and household welfare. The results of the study show that male-headed households are more financially included and have better welfare status than female-headed households, and that financial inclusion is associated with the welfare status of farmers.

Eight years after activities ceased, the Treatment Modality Research Initiative (TMRI) showed protective effects on household food security during and after the pandemic, but positive impacts were only seen in the treatment arm that combined cash transfers with nutrition behavior change communication (Cash+BCC)

This book outlines the origins and evolution of index-based livestock insurance (IBLI) and discusses the economics of poverty, risk management, and drylands development, as well as the value and challenges of integrating research with operational implementation to tackle development and humanitarian challenges.

This paper studies the effect of a low-cost intervention that reformulates a livestock insurance contract so that it directly addresses women's risk and is sold in units that are commensurate with women's expenditure responsibilities.