Agriculture

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An estimated 70 percent of the world's poor rely on agriculture for all or some of their household income. Farmers face a number of risks to their livelihoods, including unpredictable weather and crop price variation. These risks may also affect how they choose to borrow and invest to improve their business. The IPA projects in this sector seek to find out how we can help poor farmers in the developing world increase productivity and deal with the risks inherent in farming.

Microfinance & Enterprise
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
Agriculture
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Providing Collateral and Improving Product Market Access for Smallholder Farmers: A Randomized Evaluation of Inventory Credit in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Promoting Sustainable Farming Practices in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Insurance, credit, and technology adoption in Malawi
Status: Complete
Making Networks Work for Policy: Evidence from Agricultural Technology Adoption in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
Status: Complete
Technology Adoption and Diffusion through Social Networks – Evidence from a Coffee Training Program in Rwanda
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda? Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Status: Ongoing
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Contract Farming, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Small Scale Farmers in Western Kenya
Status: Ongoing
Paying for Environmental Services: An Experimental Study in Bolivia
Status: Ongoing
Promoting Adoption of New Rice Varieties: Addressing the Costs of Early Adoption in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Barriers to Fertilizer Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Status: Ongoing
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Status: Complete
Community Based Rangeland Management in Namibia
Status: Ongoing
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Kenya
Measuring the increase in yield due to fertilizer and hybrid seed use in Western Kenya.
Status: Complete
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia
Understanding the methods farmers follow during the production process and whether they are the best available.
Status: Ongoing
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
Mechanisms Matter
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
Insurance
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
Status: Complete
Credit Access
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Providing Collateral and Improving Product Market Access for Smallholder Farmers: A Randomized Evaluation of Inventory Credit in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
Ghana
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
Status: Complete
What is the impact of crop price insurance on farmers’ investment decisions?
Examining the Effects of Crop Price Insurance for Farmers in Ghana
Does insurance that protects farmers from low crop prices change the way that they invest?
Status: Complete
Measuring Impact
Providing Collateral and Improving Product Market Access for Smallholder Farmers: A Randomized Evaluation of Inventory Credit in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Promoting Sustainable Farming Practices in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Insurance, credit, and technology adoption in Malawi
Status: Complete
Technology Adoption and Diffusion through Social Networks – Evidence from a Coffee Training Program in Rwanda
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda? Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Status: Ongoing
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Governance & Community Participation
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Paying for Environmental Services: An Experimental Study in Bolivia
Status: Ongoing
Community Based Rangeland Management in Namibia
Status: Ongoing
Ultra Poor
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Transfers & Subsidies
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Training
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Post-conflict Recovery
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Liberia
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
“In the rural setting
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
“How can policy makers break high-risk youth out of illicit networks and steer them towards legal
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
What kinds of agricultural support can help them expand their activities?
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
lucrative
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
How to reduce these youth’s involvement in violence and the risk of their re-mobilization into insurrection in the future?
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
can high-risk youth be transformed into stable and successful smallholder farmers through agricultural training?”
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
and sustainable employment?”
Ex-combatant Reintegration in Liberia
A mixed-methods evaluation that examines the impact of an intensive and comprehensive reintegration training program geared particularly at reaching those ex-combatants who were not successfully reintegrated in other national programs. The evaluation will utilize a randomized control design, which will be integrated with an ethnographic and psychosocial study of youth transformation.
Status: Complete
Technology Adoption
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Promoting Sustainable Farming Practices in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Insurance, credit, and technology adoption in Malawi
Status: Complete
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Contract Farming, Technology Adoption and Agricultural Productivity: Evidence from Small Scale Farmers in Western Kenya
Status: Ongoing
Promoting Adoption of New Rice Varieties: Addressing the Costs of Early Adoption in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Barriers to Fertilizer Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Status: Ongoing
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Kenya
Measuring the increase in yield due to fertilizer and hybrid seed use in Western Kenya.
Status: Complete
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia
Understanding the methods farmers follow during the production process and whether they are the best available.
Status: Ongoing
Savings Encouragement
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Mozambique
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security in Mozambique
Status: Ongoing
Malawi
Promoting Sustainable Farming Practices in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Insurance, credit, and technology adoption in Malawi
Status: Complete
Making Networks Work for Policy: Evidence from Agricultural Technology Adoption in Malawi
Status: Ongoing
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Product Design
Insurance, credit, and technology adoption in Malawi
Status: Complete
What are the constraints to investment by farmers?
Examining Underinvestment in Agriculture: Returns to Capital and Insurance Among Farmers in Ghana
Status: Complete
Rwanda
Technology Adoption and Diffusion through Social Networks – Evidence from a Coffee Training Program in Rwanda
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda? Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Status: Ongoing
Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Technology Adoption and Diffusion through Social Networks – Evidence from a Coffee Training Program in Rwanda
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda? Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Status: Ongoing
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda?
Technology Adoption and Diffusion through Social Networks – Evidence from a Coffee Training Program in Rwanda
Can agricultural extension trainings improve the welfare of poor coffee farmers in Rwanda? Can their impact spread beyond the pool of targeted farmers by increasing adoption of best agronomic practices within their social networks?
Status: Ongoing
Marketing
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Kenya
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Barriers to Fertilizer Use: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Kenya
Status: Ongoing
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Status: Complete
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Kenya
Measuring the increase in yield due to fertilizer and hybrid seed use in Western Kenya.
Status: Complete
What role does agricultural credit play in increasing horticultural produce for export?
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
How does information on marketing and distribution increase returns to farmers?
Finding Missing Markets: An Agricultural Brokerage Intervention in Kenya
Examining the impact of marketing assistance and trade credit among farmers' groups.
Status: Complete
Reimagining Financial Access
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
What are the barriers to saving in rural areas of developing countries?
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
In particular, what is the relative importance of access to banking services, transaction costs, self-control problems, and sharing norms in explaining low savings levels?
Reducing Barriers to Saving in Malawi
Can reducing barriers to savings in rural areas increase agricultural outputs and consumption?
Status: Complete
Bolivia
Paying for Environmental Services: An Experimental Study in Bolivia
Status: Ongoing
Sierra Leone
Promoting Adoption of New Rice Varieties: Addressing the Costs of Early Adoption in Sierra Leone
Status: Ongoing
Why do so few farmers in sub-Saharan Africa use fertilizer?
Nudging Farmers to Use Fertilizer: Experimental Evidence from Kenya
Status: Complete
Community Participation
Community Based Rangeland Management in Namibia
Status: Ongoing
Namibia
Community Based Rangeland Management in Namibia
Status: Ongoing
What role does information have in fertilizer adoption?
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Kenya
Measuring the increase in yield due to fertilizer and hybrid seed use in Western Kenya.
Status: Complete
Do fertilizer and hybrid seeds increase maize yields?
Understanding Technology Adoption: Fertilizer in Kenya
Measuring the increase in yield due to fertilizer and hybrid seed use in Western Kenya.
Status: Complete
Commercialization & Subsidy
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
Mali
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
What is the best way to encourage economic development in rural areas?
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
Does providing guaranteed land titles improve agricultural outcomes?
Irrigation and Property Rights for Farmers in Mali
How does providing better irrigation and secure land titles affect farmers' productivity and wellbeing?
Status: Ongoing
India
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
What explains the infrequent use of artificial insemination for dairy animals in rural India given that it could increase dairy animal productivity substantially?
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
How does the risk of having female versus male calves affect household outcomes?
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
Does the fact that it is difficult to prove the quality of dairy animals to prospective buyers make it less profitable to breed dairy animals for sale?
Inefficiency in Smallholder Dairying in India
Understanding sources of inefficiency in smallholder dairy farmers in India (45 percent of the rural population) for technology adoption, cattle trading, and risk.
Status: Ongoing
Indonesia
Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia
Understanding the methods farmers follow during the production process and whether they are the best available.
Status: Ongoing
What are the factors that either promote or prevent farmers from experimenting and adopting new, often superior, technologies?
Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia
Understanding the methods farmers follow during the production process and whether they are the best available.
Status: Ongoing
Do farmers experiment to find the best available practices for production?
Farmer Decision-Making and Technology Experimentation in Indonesia
Understanding the methods farmers follow during the production process and whether they are the best available.
Status: Ongoing
Why don't farmers make potentially profitable investments?
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
What is the impact of access to credit on farmers' decisions and well being?
Agricultural Microfinance in Mali
What constraints prevent farmers from taking on potentially profitable investments?
Status: Ongoing
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