Agriculture

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To help address gaps in the understanding of what works and what does not, we fund a variety of studies across this programme area, including interventions focused on insurance, extension, land-use and forestry, and innovation and technology.

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Enhancing access to weather index agricultural insurance in Burkina Faso: a new marketing approach

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report explore the marketability of a rainfall index insurance product targeted at urban migrants in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, who have relatives engaged in farming in their native villages.

Learning from a publicly subsidised agricultural insurance: evidence from Bolivia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this report assess the feasibility and acceptability of the PIRWA insurance programme among smallholder farmers living in poverty in Bolivia. The PIRWA is a publicly funded, zero-fee insurance programme designed to mitigate risk against damages caused by floods, droughts, hailstorm and frost.

Improving trust and relaxing liquidity constraints to enhance uptake of weather insurance in Ethiopia

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this study assess if the uptake of an index-based insurance product can be enhanced through marketing activities led by local cooperatives and by introducing a premium payment system designed to promote financial inclusion.

Picture-based crop insurance: using farmers’ smartphone pictures to reduce basis risk and costs of loss verification

Other evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this formative evaluation report assess an intervention that seeks to leverage new technologies to improve coverage and affordability of a weather-based index insurance in Haryana, India.

Impacts, maintenance and sustainability of irrigation in Rwanda

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
Authors of this study highlight the impacts of five irrigation schemes in Rwanda that support cultivation during dry seasons and mitigate the effects of climate variability, on smallholder farmers’ welfare.

Impact of alternate wetting and drying on farm incomes and water savings in Bangladesh

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2020  
This impact evaluation highlights the impact of alternate wetting and drying, a water-saving technology used to reduce irrigation water consumption in rice fields, as compared to conventional flood irrigation on water savings and farm incomes in Bangladesh.

Does information on agricultural technology encourage adoption?

Impact evaluation Brief 3ie PDF icon 2018  
This brief is based on the findings of an impact evaluation that examines the role of information in addressing the constraints smallholder farmers in Kenya face in adopting agricultural inputs.

Evaluating agricultural information dissemination in western Kenya

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2018  

This impact evaluation by Fabregas and colleagues examines the role of information in addressing the constraints smallholder farmers in Kenya face in adopting agricultural inputs.

Insuring farmers against weather shocks: Evidence from India

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2017  

This impact evaluation by Tobacman et al. examines the long-term impacts of rainfall insurance in Gujarat, India.

Making networks work for policy: evidence from agricultural technology adoption in Malawi

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2016  

This report by Beaman et al. tests training diffusion partners chosen using a theory-based selection approach and whether it leads to greater adoption of new agricultural technologies in Malawi.

Sustainability of impact: dimensions of decline and persistence in adopting a biofortified crop in Uganda

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2016  

This study by McNiven S, Gilligan, DO and Hotz C, studied the sustainability of impact of an agricultural intervention that promoted the adoption and consumption of biofortified orange sweet potato

Smallholder access to weather securities in India: demand and impact on production decisions

Impact evaluation 3ie PDF icon 2015  

Weather index insurance (WII) has had low demand and uptake among farmers despite a recent surge in interest among private companies and policymakers.

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