John Mburu, a Kenyan research assistant under the Feed the Future’s ALL-IN-funded study, has secured a full scholarship to pursue a Master of Science in Agricultural and Applied Economics at Virginia Tech University, in the United States.
Three years into the program, research teams from the original cohort of twelve ALL-IN project are utilizing the funding, access, and new connections to expand their reach, in turn training others - prompting a cascading effect of knowledge sharing that is helping to create sustainable pathways for local development policies.
New findings from the Feed the Future ALL-IN-funded study, led by the Tegemeo Institute of Agricultural Policy & Development at Egerton University, show there is demand for agro-weather advisories among smallholder farmers in Kenya.
A new effort led from UC Davis is seeking to build on prior USAID-supported research in Nepal to deliver an innovative set of financial tools to small-scale women farmers to reduce their risk of losing crops to weather- and climate-related shocks.
MRR Innovation Lab researchers have developed and tested an economic measure of resilience that quantifies it using commonly available data. This measure makes it possible to identify which households are most vulnerable to shocks and to compare how well different development programs strengthen resilience.
In this Q&A, MRR Innovation Lab principal investigator Mo Alloush discusses some of the relationships between mental health and income, including the kinds of development programming that can support people struggling with both poverty and depression.
MRR Innovation Lab director Michael Carter and his co-authors have just received the Robert I. Mehr Award for their paper that described the technical design for a novel insurance for pastoralist communities in East Africa.
A nutrition-sensitive program in rural Bangladesh improved dietary diversity before major shocks struck participating communities. The research team is conducting a new study to learn whether those benefits sustained and if the program generated resilience.
Two MRR Innovation Lab projects are conducting research to learn more about nutrition, both how to reinforce it and whether nutrition-related programming strengthens household resilience.
Researchers from across the globe converged in Atlanta, Georgia from May 24-25, 2023 to share their work in progress at this year’s MRR Innovation Lab Technical meeting.
