MRR's Village Insurance Savings Accounts (VISA) model offers multiple benefits for increasing farmer uptake of insurance. The model's design builds inclusion, understanding, affordability, and lower costs.
After eight years and Covid lockdowns, the treatment group that received cash, nutrition trainings and home visits was less likely to be food insecure.
An ex-post evaluation of a nutrition-and-gender-sensitive agricultural intervention in Bangladesh found that bundling nutrition and agriculture training may contribute to resilience as well as to sustained impacts on consumption, women’s empowerment, and asset holdings in the medium term.
Lab-in-the-field experiments in Ghana found that participants were less likely to share risk, and more likely to select insurance, when their wealth was unequal. The findings raise the prospect that addressing inequality could have spillover effects for poverty reduction and resilience.
A Willingness to Pay (WTP) survey for agro-weather messages estimates what reach would be maintained if a subscription fee was introduced to a currently free service.
A Contingent Line of Credit (CLOC) is a new financial instrument tailor-made for microfinance institutions and their smallholder clients and a powerful addition to a portfolio that charts a future of business growth.
A budgeting activity in Zambia increased savings and annual crop output, results that show this kind of intervention at the time of harvest could help address cyclical food shortages while improving future welfare.
