A participant-centred planning intervention, that prompted farmers to think through all potential income and expenditures using categorisation and labelling, leads to smoother consumption across seasons, more savings and higher farm yields for Zambia...

What can policymakers in low- and middle-income countries learn from environmental economics?

Programmes that pay farmers not to burn crop residue face challenges with compliance, but contracts that include partial upfront payments can help

Loans allowed low-income households to reallocate labour away from the market and back onto their own farms, and thereby improve their own harvests

A simple training increased adoption of an agricultural technology by over 90%, with persistent improvements in agricultural production and land use

Prepaid electricity meters are changing how residential customers pay for power across the developing world

Individuals put less effort into conserving water or energy at home when they share the resulting financial savings with other household members