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From risk to resilience: Increasing insurance uptake among farmers in rural Uganda
The majority of households in rural Uganda are involved in agriculture but have no insurance against crop failure or price shocks. Evidence suggests that awareness programmes that help farmers understand potential negative outcomes—perhaps through si...
How misinformation and mismatched expectations reduce adoption of improved seeds
Often presented as game-changing solutions, agricultural technologies like improved seeds or fertilisers can lead farmers to adopt one at the expense of others, only to disadopt when the expected gains, based on overly optimistic assumptions about re...
