Contracting Out of Poverty in Peru: Some Experimental Approaches
The research aims to help in the design of new institutional mechanisms that will favor the inclusion of smallholders and link them to dynamic markets through […]
- Start Date: 2008
- End Date: 2011
- 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
Area Based Yield Insurance for Peruvian Coastal Agriculture
This project tested an area-based yield (ARBY) insurance scheme for small and medium sized producers in selected valleys of the Peruvian coast.
- Start Date: 2007/11/01
- End Date: 2009/03/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Food Security, Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Weather Insurance, Price Information and Hedging: Financial Initiatives to Help the Poor Manage Agricultural Risk
This project developed two complimentary initiatives to weaken poor farmer households’ susceptibility to output and price risk in an effort to increase their asset accumulation and […]
- Start Date: 2007/10/01
- End Date: 2011/09/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Harvard University
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Enhancing Smallholder Competitiveness in the Face of Globalization
This project studied how fair trade, linking of insurance to credit, credit bureaus, and microfinance lending increases the competitiveness of the smallholder sector.
- Start Date: 2007/10/01
- End Date: 2011/06/01
- 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
Biometric and Financial Innovations in Rural Malawi: A Field Experimental Approach
This project aimed to demonstrate how biometric technology, specifically fingerprinting, can help improve the functioning of rural credit markets in Malawi. It tested whether a fingerprint-based […]
- Start Date: 2007/07/01
- End Date: 2008/12/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Michigan
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Access to Modernizing Value Chains by Small Farmers in Indonesia and Nicaragua
This project investigated how transformations in the agrifood industry have affected small farmers’ access to markets and assets in Nicaragua and Indonesia. This project focused on […]
- Start Date: 2007/05/01
- End Date: 2011/04/30
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Michigan State University
- Region: Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Pathways for Ensuring Access to Assets: Land tenure reform and beyond
This project assessed the social, economic, and institutional constraints limiting women’s access to and control of assets in Uganda and Liberia. Researchers provided recommendations on policies […]
- Start Date: 2007/04/01
- End Date: 2011/03/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Yale University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Gender, Policy
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
CCRA-1: Gendered Access to Markets: Gendered Networks and Livelihood Alternatives
The SANREM CRSP approach demonstrates how linkages among gender, biophysical, technological, governance, economic, social, environmental, and globalization factors can be used to achieve sustainable development. This […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: CCRA-1
- Lead University: Virginia Tech
CCRA-2: Watershed Modeling and Assessment
The goal of this activity is to enhance the impact of SANREM CRSP’s LTRA projects by providing technical support and a comparative framework in watershed modeling […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: CCRA-2
- Lead University: Virginia Tech
CCRA-3: Assessing and Managing Soil Quality for Sustainable Agricultural Systems
The intent of this activity is to enhance and strengthen ongoing soil science-related project activities and initiate new cross-cutting research that uses the unique opportunities of […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: CCRA-3
- Lead University: University of Missouri-Columbia
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management
