On smallholder farm and farmer diversity
, 2019 Feeding the world sustainably is one of today’s greatest challenges. The urgency to produce more food from a dwindling resource base calls for a sustainable intensification of agricultural production. Globally, 83% of all farm systems are smallholder farms, whose productivity could increase through the adoption of improved agricultural technologies and
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Determinants of smallholder maize supply to private traders and profitability: evidence from lilongwe district in central Malawi [PDF]
This study was devoted to estimate profitability and various determinants of quantities of maize sold to private traders by smallholder farmers in Lilongwe district.
Maganga, Assa M.
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The Collective Action as Potential Driver of Bottom-up Reconfiguration from Captive to Relational Value Chain : the Case Study of the Northern District in Sierra Leone [PDF]
, 2017 In recent decades, the increasing growth rate of the African cashew business has involved a large number of corporate actors such as global retailers, processors and exporters in cashew supply networks.
Corsi Stefano, DE NONI Ivan, Orsi Luigi
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Digital Agriculture: Past, Present, and Future
Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.Digital agriculture integrates Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and blockchain to enhance efficiency and sustainability in farming. This review outlines its evolution, current applications, and future directions, highlighting both technological advances and key challenges for global implementation.
Xiaoding Wang +3 more
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What factors positively affect the adoption of agricultural technologies by smallholder farmers? [PDF]
, 2021 International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie)
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The shift towards sustainable food production is essential to address the urgent dual challenges of climate change and population growth, with agricultural cooperatives playing a vital role in this transformation. However, many cooperatives struggle to deliver the expected value to their members.
Ismail Badraoui +4 more
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Credit access, productivity and poverty reduction in Malawi: a conditioned mixed process approach
Discover AgricultureMost policy discussions have been centred on improving smallholder farmers’ agricultural productivity as a way of reducing poverty in SSA. IFAD acknowledges that higher agricultural productivity can hasten sustainable agriculture development and poverty ...
Blessings Bolola Nyirongo
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food SystemsThe participation of smallholder farmers in agricultural production outsourcing through organizational means is of significant importance for enhancing agricultural production capacity and promoting agricultural modernization.
Mei Qiao, Jing Wang, Bowen Wang
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Soil Fertility Management Choice in the Maize-Based Smallholder Farming System in Malawi [PDF]
The paper analyses the factors that affect smallholder farmers choice of soil fertility management options in Malawi using a two-stage maximum likelihood estimation procedure.
Frohberg, Klaus +2 more
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Valuing improvements in the water rights system in South Africa : a contingent ranking approach [PDF]
, 2010 In the context of increasing water scarcity, understanding is growing that irrigation water rights are important and that a lack of effective water rights systems constitute a major reason for inefficient water management.
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