reduction. A rapidly evolving technological landscape is opening up new possibilities to target and price credit, to share risk … financial technology (FinTech) in driving new products in credit and risk markets. We examine linkages to mobile money …The finance sector has a key role to play in allowing agriculture to contribute to economic growth and poverty …

Most sub-Sahara African agriculture is rainfed and the key production risk is crop failure due to drought or … insufficient rains. Major strategies for households to protect against the risk of crop failure are livestock rearing and storage … of home produced food. Next to drought, SSA agriculture is characterized by low productivity and limited market …

Most sub-Sahara African agriculture is rainfed and the key production risk is crop failure due to drought or … insufficient rains. Major strategies for households to protect against the risk of crop failure are livestock rearing and storage … of home produced food. Next to drought, SSA agriculture is characterized by low productivity and limited market …

This study analyzes the performance of Latin America and the Caribbean's agriculture between 1980 and 2012 looking at … performance of agriculture was the result of fast growth in the use of fertilizer, increases in land productivity, and growth in … contributed significantly to the improved performance of agriculture. Observed growth patterns at the country level suggest that …

country's dual agricultural policy focus towards large commercial agribusiness enterprises, led by the Ministry of Agriculture …

Innovation in agriculture differs from innovation elsewhere in the economy in several important ways. In this chapter … innovations that reduce the susceptibility of agricultural production to these uncontrolled factors. These features of agriculture …. Informal innovation and technical discovery processes characterized agriculture from its beginnings some 10,000 years ago …