The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) build a pathway to improving life for all people while safeguarding the environment in which we all live. A critical part of this work is to build opportunities for rural families whose lives and livelihoods have always been the most vulnerable.
The MRR Innovation Lab invites researchers at U.S. universities to submit proposals for research projects that develop or test innovative ways to promote food security and resilience worldwide.
A new paper explores how digital technologies like mobile phones and satellites have created new ways for rural families in developing countries to access savings, credit and insurance. The paper also explains the need to ensure that these services do not reproduce or amplify existing inequalities.
New research in Kenya is testing whether a government program that provides farmers weather and market information via SMS text message promotes climate change adaptation and increases in overall productivity and resilience.
A new paper co-authored by MRR Innovation Lab director Michael Carter charts how recent advances in crop modeling and remote sensing can help insurers improve the quality of index insurance for small-scale farmers in developing countries.
In 2020 the MRR Innovation Lab launched new research projects and initiatives that establish a foundation for impact in the years to come. Check out some of our 2020 highlights.
New research supported by USAID is learning whether investments in broadly based resilience helps families to withstand even this completely unexpected and global shock of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Feed the Future Advancing Local Leadership, Innovation and Networks (ALL-IN) program has opened its 2020 call for research proposals from researchers at African institutions to advance host country leadership in defining and implementing research projects.
How a novel public-private partnership in Western Kenya helped a local seed company reach underserved communities of small-scale farmers with locally adapted improved seeds that transformed yields.
Focusing development programs on women can have impacts that go beyond income and poverty. In Nepal, a Feed the Future research team found that a prominent asset transfer and training program had important impacts on women's empowerment.
