CCRA-4: Soil Metagenomics to Construct Indicators of Soil Degradation
Soil degradation is one of the most important problems for sustainable agriculture worldwide. Because tropical soils have been studied less than temperate soils, understanding and developing […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: CCRA-4
- Lead University: Kansas State University
- Region: Global
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CCRA-5: Linking Knowledge and Action – Meeting Natural Resource Management Challenges
The potential for research to provide short- and long-term improvements in environmental sustainability and rural welfare are widely recognized. Yet there is a huge imbalance between […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: CCRA-5
- Lead University: Harvard University
- Region: Global
- Topic: Capacity Building, Natural Resource Management
PEACE : Pastoral Engagement, Adaptation, and Capacity Enhancement
The PEACE project is focused on the development of the extensive livestock sector by supporting policy planning, pastoral land tenure conflict resolution, and introduction of GL-CRSP […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2009
- Project Code: PEACE
- Lead University: University of California - Davis
CRSP: Global Livestock
Database: Project
Cash Transfers, Risk Management and Asset Accumulation: Policy evaluation for rural poverty reduction in Nicaragua
This project aimed to look at the long-term impact of a cash transfer pilot program, and whether it would increase the asset base and/or facilitate income […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2011
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Johns Hopkins University
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Policy
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Understanding and Improving Financial Access for the Poor
This project sought to improve access for the poor by identifying which mechanisms create incomplete access and which innovations are effective at expanding access. Lastly, this […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Yale University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Markets
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Quantitative Impact Evaluation: MCC-MCA Nicaragua Compact
The BASIS AMA CRSP assisted with an impact evaluation of the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s project with MCA-Nicaragua which promotes economic growth through property regularization, infrastructure improvement […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2011
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Region: Latin America and the Caribbean
- Topic: Policy
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Natural Capital and Poverty Reduction
This project studied how natural capital functioned as a form of insurance for poor households facing income variability and shocks and whether income from natural resources […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Purdue University
- Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Gender, Natural Resource Management
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Micro Health Insurance in Rural Cambodia: An evaluation of the impact on the stabilization of incomes and enhancement of agricultural productivity and asset accumulation
This project evaluated the GRET/SKY micro-health insurance program in Cambodia, focusing on how micro-health insurance reduces the rural poor’s susceptibility to loss of income and productive […]
- Start Date: 2007/00/01
- End Date: 2012/00/01
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: University of California - Berkeley
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Understanding the Impact of Idiosyncratic Shocks on Farm Productivity and Household Assets in Ethiopia, Ghana and Bangladesh
New evidence that idiosyncratic risk dominates covariate risk in rural Africa and Asia indicates the potential contribution of improved local risk management to household asset accumulation, […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2012
- Project Code: Not Available
- Lead University: Cornell University
- Region: Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Food Security, Productivity
CRSP: BASIS Assets and Market Access (AMA)
Database: Project
Aquatic Resource Use and Conservation for Sustainable Freshwater Aquaculture and Fisheries in Mali
The overall goal of the project is to impove the productivity and income of producers in targeted areas of Mali through facilitation of access to technologies […]
- Start Date: 2007
- End Date: 2010
- Project Code: #688-A-00-07-00044-00
- Lead University: Oregon State University
- Region: Sub-Saharan Africa
- Topic: Natural Resource Management
CRSP: AquaFish Phase I
Database: Project
