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S2 Ep19: Better seeds or better insurance?

VoxDev Development Economics

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For small farmers, extreme weather doesn't just ruin one crop. Devastating drought can have lingering effects sometimes contributing to intergenerational transfer of poverty. Better seeds and insurance against this sort of bad luck are partial solutions. But what if we combine the two? Well, that's what a multi er trial in tansineramus and beak has done. Paswell marena of the international maze and wheat improvement centre joins us now from niroby.

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