Index-based Weather Insurance for Coffee Cooperatives in Guatemala
Risk reduction remains a major challenge in increasing productivity and enhancing livelihoods among smallholders in developing countries. Index-based weather insurance offers a new promise for this […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Berkeley
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Group Insurance: The Case of Cotton Producers in Mali
The aim of this project is to insure Malian cotton producers. The vast majority of cotton producers in Mali are small farmers for whom cotton represents […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/06/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Duke University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Dual Strike Point Index Insurance Contracts for Cotton Farmers in West Africa
The BASIS I4 research team, led by researchers at the University of California Davis and the University de Namur, designed an innovative multi-scale insurance index that […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2014/09/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Innovation, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Enhancing The Profitability Of Small Aquaculture Operations In Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
The AquaFish CRSP Feed the Future project works in three of the focus countries identified by Feed the Future: Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania. Feed the Future’s […]
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/03/31
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Oregon State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: AquaFish Phase I
Database: Project
Enhancing the Profitability of Small Aquaculture Operations in Kenya and Tanzania Purdue University
Part of the AquaFish Project: Enhancing The Profitability Of Small Aquaculture Operations In Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/03/31
- Project Code: 10BMAPU01
- Lead University: Purdue University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: AquaFish Phase I
Database: Project
Enhancing the Profitability of Small Aquaculture Operations in Ghana, Kenya and Tanzania Through Improved Resource Management and Environmental Best Management Practices Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Part of the AquaFish Project: Enhancing The Profitability Of Small Aquaculture Operations In Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania
- Start Date: 2010
- End Date: 2013/03/31
- Project Code: 10BMA02VT
- Lead University: Virginia Tech
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: AquaFish Phase I
Database: Project
Savings, Subsidies and Sustainable Food Security: A Field Experiment in Mozambique
Several sub-Saharan African countries have implemented large-scale fertilizer subsidy programs in an attempt to boost the productivity and food security of small farmers. With the recent […]
- Start Date: September 2009
- End Date: April 2012
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Michigan
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Enhancing the Peanut Value Chain, from Processing to Marketing of Peanuts and Peanut Products – Processing
Our goal is to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving agricultural producers’ and processors’ access to markets and stimulating new […]
- Start Date: 2009/06/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA127
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products
This project’s goals include income enhancement along the peanut value chain, job creation through peanut processing, market access for producers and stimulation of new market demand, […]
- Start Date: 2009/06/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA165
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
Enhancing the peanut value chain, from processing to marketing peanuts and peanut products – Product Development
This project seeks to enhance incomes and employment opportunities of people through a strategy of improving small agricultural producers’ access to markets and stimulating new market […]
- Start Date: 2009/06/01
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: UGA166
- Lead University: University of Georgia
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
