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New research from Zambia found that a budgeting activity with maize-farming families could stretch savings for an extra month during the hungry season and increase the size of next year’s...

Agrodealers in Mozambique are scaling an innovative bundle of maize seeds and insurance, which could ensure that the market itself will sustain the product and its benefits to smallholder farmers.

How a novel public-private partnership in Western Kenya helped a local seed company reach underserved communities of small-scale farmers with locally adapted improved seeds that transformed yields.

Today, researchers are using the newest generations of satellite and Earth observation technologies to improve agricultural index insuarance for development — and those improvements are accelerating.

The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk & Resilience has just launched a new project in Ethiopia that tests a new way to ensure all families benefit from...

SimPastoralist is a digital app the MRR Innovation Lab is using in northern Kenya to explain index-based livestock insurance while collecting data that can help design insurance that responds better...

Agricultural extension, which takes the best information on technology, inputs and practices directly to farmers, may spread benefits beyond higher yields. In Uganda, a large-scale program also reduced malaria infections...

In over sixty years of armed conflict in Colombia, more than 220,000 have died and millions have been displaced, creating poverty and hardship that could last for generations. New research...

For decades, development economists have waded into the complexity of poverty and resilience to sort out the underlying structures that make and keep households poor. Years of theoretical research and...

New research shows that promoting low-cost but advanced farming methods through agricultural extension can significantly increase food security and resilience, especially when the higher cost of improved inputs keeps them...