Berber Kramer

Senior research fellow @IFPRI working on financial inclusion & gender in agriculture. Follow me @berberkramer.bsky.social

[Berber Kramer @BerberKramer]

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We are excited to start the incubation process with the Lab and collaborate with partners across the climate finance ecosystem. Read more here: https://t.co/pu3g4I6Q1Z

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@GreenFutureJT @IFPRI @ruthvargashill Here’s a link to the blog: https://t.co/EUDdU8giUu

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🌱 Crop insurance can help smallholder farmers in Africa and elsewhere manage climate risk and stabilize livelihoods in the face of droughts and extreme weather.

🔗 Learn more in this recent blog by @ruthvargashill and @BerberKramer: https://t.co/7xxADnksBw

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Today, on the @UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we highlight the work of @BerberKramer, IFPRI Senior Research Fellow, based in Nairobi. Her research focuses on financial inclusion, technology adoption, gender, and climate adaptation.

In this Faces of IFPRI video, Berber shares career advice, what keeps her passionate about her work, and her favorite hobby – triathlons!

Watch here 👇
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How do smallholder farmers make decisions when the weather is increasingly unpredictable? 🌦️

In Zambia’s Eastern Province, IFPRI researchers are using innovative, gamified experiments to better understand how smallholder farmers respond to climate information.

Learn more in this blog by Joseline Kiogora, @as_grossi, @BerberKramer, and @CarlyTrachtman: https://t.co/u8nnVLdgbV

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In Zambia’s Eastern Province, smallholder farmers face increasingly unpredictable rainfall and climate variability.

To better understand decision-making in response to climate information, researchers moved beyond traditional surveys and invited farmers to participate in a simulated farming “game” that explored investment choices, risk & social dynamics.

👉 Here's a quick look at what we learned.

🗞️ Read more: https://t.co/vylu2oV84I

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🔍 How can research, partnership, and timely innovation catalyze large-scale meaningful change?

🔗 Learn more in this blog by @BerberKramer and Shalini Roy: https://t.co/YwvzO1vWAP

#foodsystems #agriculturalfinance #DigitalInnovation #genderequality #ResearchForImpact #smallholderfarmers @CGIAR @CGIARScaling

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🌾 🌏 In the paddy fields of Odisha, India, many farmers cultivate land they do not own—and without land titles, they cannot use their fields as collateral for formal credit.

🛰️ Against this backdrop, the idea that the collateral requirements could be bypassed using satellite images—allowing financial institutions to assess creditworthiness by verifying what farmers grow instead of what they own—offered a potentially transformative solution.

🔗 Learn more in this recent blog by @BerberKramer and Shalini Roy: https://t.co/YwvzO1vWAP

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What I love about applied research: we get to work with our partners on projects where research has the potential for real impact. And big plans loading for 2026-2028, as @dvaraeregistry has plans to scale the solution to 50,000 farmers in India.

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♨️New on our blog:

From satellite images to real-world impact: How IFPRI-Dvara collaboration opened new doors for Odisha’s marginalized farmers

🖋️by @BerberKramer & Shalini Roy

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⤵️https://t.co/mMdbxSZnmd

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💡50 Years of Innovation to Support Evolving Food Systems🌱

Today we feature Picture-Based Crop Insurance 🌱🤝📢

🔗Learn more here: https://t.co/QhjQpSc7YT

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🆕 #Blog: Signaling, screening, or sunk costs? Experimental evidence on how prices affect agricultural technology adoption in East Africa

🖋️ By Bjorn Van Campenhout, @gashaw_ta, Liesbeth Colen, and @BerberKramer.

Read more here: https://t.co/a0NbhIuqK4

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A publication from @CGIAR seed systems research community explores how interventions can make seed systems more gender inclusive & transformative

📘 The study also explores case studies from #Ethiopia #Kenya #Tanzania #Uganda, showing how gender-responsive ICT tools can help ⤵️

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@AmbMKamau @muthoninjuki @Prof_LGichuhi @uonbi @SwissEmbassyKE @RK_Karanja In the first #AES2025 session on agriculture, @BerberKramer of @IFPRI discusses ways to increase the use of agtech.

"Visual tools like picture-based weather insurance increase trust and uptake among men and women—making insurance more inclusive and accessible at the same cost."

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🆕 #blog post by Emily Kilonzi, @BerberKramer, and @CarlyTrachtman:

🌱 Workshop: Assessing on-the-ground impacts of genetic innovation in agriculture

🖱️ Read more here: https://t.co/Ml07PpYvIg

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🔍 How can coordinated trials and meta-analysis be used to evaluate interventions to increase varietal turnover?

Learn more in this blog by @BerberKramer, @CarlyTrachtman, and Witold Więcek: https://t.co/jpf9yFiPm4

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In this recent blog, @BerberKramer, @CarlyTrachtman, and Witold Więcek examine a meta-analysis based on data from six coordinated randomized control trials (RCTs), across six countries and crop combinations, of a project to encourage farmers to increase varietal turnover: https://t.co/FpfXA6d1q7

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Varietal turnover: Why aren’t new maize seeds reaching farmers in Kenya? 🇰🇪

Key solutions:
🌱Trial packs & demo plots
📚 Community education & farmer learning
⏩ Faster regulatory approval
📞 Farmer awareness
🤝Strong public-private partnerships

More 👇
https://t.co/1HFhq2B4jt

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New IFPRI blog: How we used coordinated trials and meta-analysis to evaluate interventions to increase varietal turnover

🖋️ By @BerberKramer, @CarlyTrachtman, and Witold Więcek.

🔍 Read the full story here: https://t.co/jpf9yFiPm4
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How do men and women cope with weather-related agricultural production risk?

Studies show that the consequences of risk are often not distributed equitably within a household, with women disproportionately bearing the negative impacts of weather-related shocks: https://t.co/1wLyFJrtBe
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Climate change is increasing the frequency of adverse weather events and reducing agricultural productivity, particularly in warmer regions of the world.

Gender plays a role in how farmers are exposed to and manage weather risks.

🆕 blog by Samyuktha Kannan and @BerberKramer: https://t.co/1wLyFJrtBe
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