Promoting Record Keeping to Plant the Seeds of Stronger Livelihoods and Resilience
Research with small-scale farmers in Nigeria includes training on keeping basic farm records as a first step for...
The Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Markets, Risk and Resilience (MRR) at UC Davis develops and tests financial and market innovations that take the most promising agricultural tools for families in developing economies from the lab to the field. Our mission is to generate and transfer knowledge and innovations that promote resilience and empower rural families, communities and markets to share in inclusive agricultural growth.
Research with small-scale farmers in Nigeria includes training on keeping basic farm records as a first step for...
Field-tested evidence provides a roadmap for supporting households most vulnerable to climate change. Three key ideas...
New USAID-supported research has found that women in rural Nepal who took part in a livelihood-building program before...
In emerging economies, disasters like drought, flood or conflict make people poor. The potential for disasters often keeps people poor by adding insurmountable risk to adopting development innovations like stress-tolerant seeds, or low-cost loans.
The MRR Innovation Lab innovates and field-tests approaches to reducing risk that create opportunities for families to adopt these productive technologies. Research shows that these tools can generate additional food and income that keep people from falling into poverty while building a ladder up for families who are already poor—that’s Resilience+.
Resilience+ is the added dividend of smart, proactive investments in rural development in the presence of recurring disasters. The result is more families who can lift and keep themselves—and their future generations—out of poverty. Learn more