Risk often inhibits on-farm investment by smallholder farmers. Recent evidence indicates that index insurance and stress tolerant seeds can separately and partially offset this risk effect. In this study, we explore whether the complementarities between these two risk management technologies can...

Efficient and equitable development outcomes may depend, in part, on whether formal financial institutions leave low-wealth producers tightly constrained in their access to credit. If so, can cooperative institutions efficiently relax these constraints? These issues are explored using survey...