Feed the Future Innovation Lab Somalia

From Climate Change to Conflict: Mitigation through Insurance in East Africa?

This project tests whether insurance and complementary interventions can reduce conflict within households, and within and between pastoralist communities in the drylands of Ethiopia and Kenya.

Moving from Humanitarian to Development Assistance in Somalia

This MRR Innovation Lab project in Somalia is testing whether cash transfers and complementary programming help transition from humanitarian to development assistance and build resilience among vulnerable rural families.

Digital Innovations to Improve Market Access for Horticultural Produce in Malawi

This ALL-IN project is testing information and communications technology (ICT) interventions that create a virtual marketplace to connect horticultural sellers to buyers and a platform that provides agricultural extension services to farmers remotely.

Building Resilience Through Social Protection and Nutrition in Bangladesh

This MRR Innovation Lab project tests multiple measures of resilience with data from a pilot program in Bangladesh for women in rural households with incomes below the poverty line.

Subsidizing Learning About Resilience-building Agricultural Technologies in Mozambique

This MRR Innovation Lab project in Mozambique is testing short-term subsidy and training programs for rural households to learn about stress-tolerant maize bundled with index insurance for a seed-replacement guarantee.

The Distributional Impacts of Large-Scale Land Transactions in Ethiopia

This ALL-IN project is measuring the impacts of large-scale land transactions in Ethiopia and identifying the communities and households who benefit and those who does not.

Adapting to Climate Risk with Mutual Weather-Index Crop Insurance in Nigeria

This Feed the Future ALL-IN research team is developing and testing a Sharia-compliant takaful mutual insurance contract that triggers payments in the event that there is a weather anomaly.

Digital Literacy, Output Market Access, and Demand for Rural e-commerce in Nigeria

In Nigeria, a Feed the Future ALL-IN research team is providing digital literacy training so farmers can use their mobile phones to access e-commerce to sell their harvest.

Linking Financial and Agricultural Innovations for Women Farmers' Resilience in Nigeria

This Feed the Future ALL-IN project is testing interlinked credit, index insurance and cultivation of stress-tolerant maize varieties to strengthen women's productivity, income and resilience.

Reducing Poverty among Women by Strengthening the Shea Value Chain in Northern Ghana

This Feed the Future ALL-IN project tests credit and formal repayment contracts in Northern Ghana, which may increase the sector's profitability and overall shea supply while empowering women to receive the full benefits of their work.

Pairing Small-scale Irrigation and Index Insurance to Manage Risk and Expand Access to Credit in Northern Ghana

An ALL-IN research team in Ghana is testing an innovative bundle of supplemental irrigation and a complementary index insurance product to expands farmers' overall drought protection.

Digital Communication to Reinforce Nutrition and Household Resilience in Northern Ghana

This Feed the Future ALL-IN project tests whether nutrition-related messages by mobile phone reinforce the impacts of earlier development programming on families' nutrition and resilience.

The Impact of Irrigation on Improved Productivity and Market Value for Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana

This new ALL-IN study measures the socio-economic impact of Ghana's government policy initiative dubbed "One Village, One Dam" (1V1D) implemented in Northern Ghana since 2017.

Strengthening the Resilience and Empowerment of Women Smallholder Farmers in Uganda

In Uganda, new ALL-IN research is testing a comprehensive approach to supporting women to improve their on-farm productivity, increase their resilience to shocks and enhance their overall empowerment.

Soil Testing for Soil Acidity Management on Smallholder Farms in Kenya

This ALL-IN project in Kenya is testing practical ways to encourage farmers to test their soils and to apply appropriate soil amendments, including an estimate of farmers' willingness to pay for soil testing.

Impact of Agro-Weather and Market Information on Productivity and Resilience in Farming Communities in Kenya

An ALL-IN research team has launched a comprehensive study to provide the first evidence from a national program on the impact of weather and market advisories on farmers' decision making, including for women and poor families.

Empowering Local Decision Making to Improve Land Management in Malawi

MRR Innovation Lab researchers are putting small-scale farmers in the lead in designing the most productive community incentive structures for adopting conservation agriculture and other sustainable practices in Malawi.

Resilience in the Midst of Pandemic in Nepal

In Nepal, an MRR Innovation Lab research team is expanding its partnership with Heifer International to explore how rural families are coping, whether its programming increases resilience, and the challenges and opportunities for improving household resilience in the midst of a global crisis.

Resilience in the Aftermath of Disaster in Mozambique

The MRR Innovation Lab is expanding an ongoing RCT to learn how communities recover from a disaster like Cyclone Idai and whether the program made communities more resilient and to extend USAID research on resilience measurement.

Better Borrowing to Promote Access to Water and Improve Dairy Farming in Kenya

MRR Innovation Lab researchers are testing financial contracts for rain collecting water tanks, including a layaway savings plan, an asset-collateralized loan and a hybrid option that enables farmers to save towards the loan's deposit.

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