Human activities and their relation with land, through agriculture and forestry, are
significantly impacting Earth system functioning. Specifically, agriculture has increasingly …

A sound understanding of poverty traps—defined as poverty that is self-reinforcing due to
the poor's equilibrium behaviors—and their underlying mechanisms is fundamentally …

The world faces formidable, but manageable, challenges in achieving food security in a
world growing beyond 9 billion people in the coming decades. Five big challenges will …

Adverse impacts of climate change, development deficits and inequality exacerbate each
other. Existing vulnerabilities and inequalities intensify with adverse impacts of climate …

Based on quality-controlled daily station data, long-term trends and variability of total and
extreme precipitation indices during 1955–2014 were examined for Thailand. An analysis …

Weather-related shocks are a major threat to the health and livelihoods of vulnerable
farmers and herders in low-income, arid, and semi-arid regions of the world. Index insurance …

Resilience as a metric is of growing interest to development researchers and practitioners,
particularly for those whose work concerns the effects of climate change, conflict and …

The number of index insurance pilots in developing countries has grown tremendously in
recent years, but there has been little progress in our understanding of the quality of those …

While index-based microinsurance has attracted considerable attention, uptake rates have
been weak in many low-income countries. We explore the purchase patterns of index-based …

Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural income
growth on macroeconomic indicators of development. Much less is known about the micro …