Household-Level Impacts of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in Haiti: An SRI intervention with training, insured credit, and coordination by irrigation bloc
Haiti is one of the poorest and most food insecure countries in the world, and improvements in productivity for staple crops such as rice are crucial […]
- Start Date: 2013/06/01
- End Date: 2016/12/31
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Capacity Building, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Tailoring Contract Farming to Smallholders: Experimental Evidence on Enrollment Impact, Insurance Provision, and Communication Technologies
The research proposes three field experiments in Kenya to evaluate the potential of contract farming schemes to increase smallholder welfare. In the first intervention, a large […]
- Start Date: 2013/06/01
- End Date: 2017/11/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Stanford University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Evaluating the Socio-Economic Impacts of Western Seed’s Hybrid Maize Program
This study will evaluate the impact of Western Seed Company’s (WSC) hybrid maize program on the welfare of smallholder farmers in Kenya’s mid-altitude regions. This locally-based […]
- Start Date: 2013/06/01
- End Date: 2016/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Complementarities of Training, Technology, and Credit in Smallholder Agriculture: Impact, Sustainability, and Policy for Scaling-up
Programs of training and time-limited subsidization of inputs or capital are often pursued to overcome barriers to farmers’ technology adoption. How successful is this model in […]
- Start Date: 2013/06/01
- End Date: 2017/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: George Washington University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Capacity Building, Food Security, Policy
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Promoting Adoption of Improved Production Technologies among Smallholders in Ghana via Coupled Credit and Index Insurance Contracts
The Ohio State University and the African Center for Economic Transformation, in collaboration with the University of Ghana, propose to undertake a three-year program of research, […]
- Start Date: 2013/06/01
- End Date: 2016/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Ohio State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Adaptation for Climate Change by Livestock Smallholders in Gandaki River Basin
Nepal is experiencing rapid climate change, whose nature and implications for livestock raising, under evolving rural social and economic systems, are poorly understood. This project aims […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: City College of New York
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Climate Change, Markets
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Improving nutrition and productivity of buffaloes to adapt to the impacts of climate change in Nepal.
Michigan State University, in collaboration with NARC, AFU and the DLS in Nepal, will conduct collaborative research on forage crop cultivation, feeding, and reproduction management in […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Asia
- Topic: Health and Nutrition, Productivity
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Sustainable Pastoralism on the Borana Plateau: An Innovation Systems Approach
This study will test best-bet land and livestock interventions that can move the pastoral system bacy towards sustainability through a participatory framework that creates community action […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2015
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Utah State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Climate Change
CRSP: Livestock-Climate Change (LCC)
Database: Project
Trellis III: Engaging US students in international development
The Trellis Fund provides small-scale, in-country development organizations access to U.S. graduate student expertise, providing benefit to both the student and the in-country institutions. With a […]
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: 2014
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building
CRSP: Horticulture
Database: Project
Genetic Improvement of Guatemalan Climbing Beans for Efficient Production in the Highlands
TBD
- Start Date: 2013
- End Date: N.D.
- Project Code: S01.A1NDSU
- Lead University: North Dakota State University
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Innovation
CRSP: Grain Legumes (Legume)
Database: Project
