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Does Participating in Agricultural Global Value Chains Promote Agricultural Growth?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the relationship between GVC participation and agricultural value‐added growth in 43 countries over the period 1995–2022. In contrast to prior literature, we disaggregate the agricultural sector into four sub‐sectors namely crop cultivation, animal production, forestry and fishing.
Taner Turan +2 more
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Alternative Soil Fertility Management Options in Malawi - An Economic Analysis [PDF]
In this paper, we analyze the factors that influence the productivity of maize among smallholder farmers, given that unfavourable output and input market conditions throughout the 1990s have compelled smallholder farmers into unsustainable agricultural ...
Sauer, Johannes, Tchale, Hardwick
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Commercialisation: A meta-approach for agricultural development among smallholder farmers in Africa? [PDF]
, 2013 This paper presents a critique of commercialising smallholder farming for agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa. First it questions the validity of an overarching ‘metanarrative’ approach to development.
Chitundu, Maureen +2 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen +5 more
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Interdisciplinary Journal of Rural and Community StudiesClimate change-driven disasters are among the major problems facing the agricultural sector globally. This study examined the impacts of drought and floods on water availability and agricultural productivity in smallholder farms within the Overberg ...
Pitso Hemly Mashile +2 more
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Mainstreaming Underutilized Indigenous and Traditional Crops into Food Systems: A South African Perspective [PDF]
, 2018 Business as usual or transformative change? While the global agro-industrial food system is credited with increasing food production, availability and accessibility, it is also credited with giving birth to ‘new’ challenges such as malnutrition ...
Chibarabada, T. +8 more
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra +3 more
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Cogent Food & AgricultureSocial capital is considered one of the pertinent drivers of inclusive development for rural farmers. However, in scientific discourses, little is known about the determinants and types of social capital available to smallholder farmers and the ...
Kenneth Tengapoe +2 more
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Explaining Productivity Variation among Smallholder Maize Farmers in Tanzania [PDF]
Using a stochastic frontier production model proposed by Battese and Coelli (1995), the paper estimates the levels of technical efficiency of 233 smallholder maize farmers in Tanzania and provides an empirical analysis of the determinants of inefficiency
Hisano, Shuji +2 more
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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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