This article considers index-based safety nets aimed at assuring participants a minimum income at the village level, set by a prespecified poverty line. The participating villages collectively manage a pooled budget, offering an index-based per capita indemnity to the villages financed from a...

This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and development pathways for smallholder farmers in developing countries, and offers policy recommendations to help potentially profitable smallholders meet emerging risks and challenges.