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Research Progress and Conceptual Insights on Drought Impacts and Responses among Smallholder Farmers in South Africa: A Review

Land, 2022
Drought is a natural phenomenon which can cause widespread socio-economic and environmental impacts. Recent predictions suggest that drought frequency and intensity will increase in Southern Africa; therefore, there is a need for more scientific ...
S. Ruwanza, Gladman Thondhlana, Menelisi Falayi   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Exploring the impact of agricultural digitalization on smallholder farmers' livelihoods in Ghana. [PDF]

Heliyon
Addison M, Bonuedi I, Arhin AA, Wadei B, Owusu-Addo E, Fredua Antoh E, Mensah-Odum N.   +6 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

Smallholder Farmers Contribution to Food Production in Nigeria

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
Several studies have shown that smallholder farmers produce most of the food in low-income and developing countries and form the backbone of the country’s food supply.
Jeffrey Chiwuikem Chiaka, L. Zhen, Yunfeng Hu, Yu-ting Xiao, Fabien Muhirwa, Tingting Lang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The role of agroforestry in restoring Brazil's Atlantic Forest: Opportunities and challenges for smallholder farmers

People and Nature, 2022
1. Restoring the degraded Atlantic Forest is one of the biggest conservation chal lenges in Brazil. In a biome with high human presence, understanding the po tential for restoration approaches, such as agroforestry, to provide benefits to smallholder ...
Yara Shennan‐Farpón, M. Mills, Aline Souza, Katherine M. Homewood   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Influence of demographic characteristics and social network on peri-urban smallholder farmers adaptation strategies - evidence from southern Ghana

Cogent Food & Agriculture, 2022
With a gamut of climate variability and change literature that examines rural spaces in the global south, and in the case of Ghana, rural spaces in the northern part, this article turns focus to a less targeted empirical space of peri-urban geography to ...
R. Anum, D. Ankrah, J. Anaglo
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Market participation decision of smallholder farmers and its determinants in Bangladesh [PDF]

Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2015
This paper explores the market participation decision of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh and tries to sort out the most important factors that influence smallholder farmers' decision to participate in the output market to sell their produce in ...
Gani Osmani Ataul, Hossain Elias
doaj   +1 more source

I share because I care! Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of the usefulness of word of mouth for their market participation decisions [PDF]

IIM Ranchi Journal of Management Studies
Purpose – The approach to integrate concepts from different disciplines so as to solve the problems facing smallholder farmers has gained momentum in recent years.
Ismail Juma Ismail, David Amani, Ismail Abdi Changalima, Isaac Kazungu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart Agricultural Futures Market: Blockchain Technology as a Trust Enabler between Smallholder Farmers and Buyers

Sustainability, 2022
Smallholder farmers produce over 70% of the world’s food needs. Yet, the socioeconomic conditions of the smallholder farmers are substandard. One of the primary reasons for this unpropitious situation is that they generate modest income by selling their ...
Malni Kumarathunga, R. Calheiros, A. Ginige   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sources of wheat production technical inefficiency among smallholder farmers in Northwestern Ethiopia: Beta regression approach

Cogent Economics & Finance, 2023
Wheat production is dominated by a subsistence smallholder production system. Additionally, more than 4.7 million smallholder farmers are engaged in wheat production. However, poverty is chronic and pervasive among smallholder farmers.
Birara Endalew, Mezgebu Aynalem, Adugnaw Anteneh, Habtamu Mossie   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana

Heliyon, 2023
This study assessed the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to address the adverse effects of climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Frank Baffour-Ata, Philip Antwi-Agyei, Louisa Boakye, Lester Simon Nii Aryee Tettey, Muriel Nana Efua Fosuaa Forson, Albright Ewenam Abiwu, Emmanuel Gyenin, Rebecca Naa Merley Larbi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source