Resource Library

This preliminary briefing note summarizes some of the key trends and insights from the 2015 Landscape of Microinsurance in Africa, the full report for which will be published in early 2016.

El Programa de Desarrollo Económico Local-PRODEL, financiado por la Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional -USAID, ha culminado con éxito cinco años de trabajo en las zonas fronterizas del norte y sur del Ecuador.

The USAID/East Africa Market Linkages Initiative was a two-year regional program to promote growth in food staples and food security, working alongside partners to integrate smallholder farmers into more efficient national and regional markets.

This document analyzes the domestic and export markets, channels and competitors for Kenyan livestock and meat.

Emergency Market Mapping and Analysis (EMMA) is a rapid market analysis designed to be used in the short-term aftermath of a sudden-onset crisis. This report uses the EMMA tool to analyze the beans market system in the Sud-Est (Southeast) department of Haiti in March-April 2010, several months after the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The report examines constraints in the beans market system, the earthquake-related disruptions that persist, and provides short-term and long-term recommendations.

This initial survey is the first step in a larger study that is being conducted by the George Washington University's Center for International Business Education and Research and its Diaspora Capital Investment Project on the African Diaspora Marketplace and its participants.

This resource provides a coherent and helpful summary of the Michigan State University (MSU)’s Food Security Group’s research, primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa. Lessons are presented in four areas: The first, Agricultural Growth and Food Security Strategies, suggests that small shrinking farm sizes in many countries will prevent many farmers from escaping poverty from on-farm production alone. Investments in education and non-agricultural sectors will be important.

This document, produced under a primer series on social safety nets, assesses the role of food aid in improving food availability and food access. It is based on a synthesis of experiences in four countries:  India, Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Zambia. It concludes that food aid does not have to create negative impacts, particularly if it is tied to the development of infrastructure that supports production and market linkages, avoids creating negative price effects for food producers, and reaches the food insecure.

The Mali Rice Study provides recommendations for an upgrading strategy to enhance food security and the competitiveness of the rice value chain in Mali.

This microREPORT looks at two dimensions of expansion of access to credit for small and medium agricultural producers.

Case studies on the profitability and sustainability of State-Owned Retail Banks (SORBs).

This report discusses key lessons in adapting programs to affect sustainable impacts for food insecure households in Bolivia.