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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Diversity and location: key elements to the production of agroecological technical novelties by smallholders

Revista Brasileira de Agroecologia
The institutionalization of the industrial agriculture regime weakened the potential of novelties production by smallholders. Novelties here are understood as specific types of innovations, necessary to find solutions to the current multifaceted ...
Pauline Hélène Cécile Marie Cuenin, Marcelo Leles Romarco de Oliveira, Maria Izabel Vieira Botelho, Leonardo Van den Berg, Irene Maria Cardoso   +4 more
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

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, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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The Body Shop and Community Trade: 22 years of trading fairly with smallholders [PDF]

, 2009
This case study provides an example of a retailer adapting procurement and production strategies to include capacity building for smallholders.

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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

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, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Smallholders’ perspectives on sustainable agriculture intensification in Northern Ghana

Sustainable Futures
In the quest to improve food security for a growing population with minimal environmental impact, assessing smallholders’ perceptions and practices of sustainable agriculture intensification (SAI) is a prerequisite for achieving Sustainable Development ...
Ebenezer N.K. Boateng, Gerald Atampugre, Patricia Solis, Simon Mariwah, Ishmael Mensah, Christine Furst, Benjamin K. Nyarko   +6 more
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Orange fleshed sweet potatoes (OFSP) and productivity: the case of smallholders in Kwara State, Nigeria

Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2019
In rural Nigeria, most households cannot afford food products rich in vitamin A which gave rise to the introduction of bio-fortified agricultural produces. One of these is the Orange Fleshed Sweet Potatoes (OFSP). Although introduced about six years ago,
Babatunde Raphael Olanrewaju, Omoniwa Adeyemi Esther, Adeniyi Adebanke Elizabeth   +2 more
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Smallholder telecoupling and potential sustainability

Ecology and Society, 2018
Smallholders are crucial for global sustainability given their importance to food and nutritional security, agriculture, and biodiversity conservation.
Karl S. Zimmerer, Eric F. Lambin, Steven J. Vanek   +2 more
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agribusiness: From Automation to Augmentation in a Global Context

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Alexis H. Villacis
wiley   +1 more source

Firm turnover under asymmetric information: Tanzania's agro‐dealer sector

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract We study firm turnover (i.e., entry and exit) and its consumer implications in a market characterized by asymmetric information. Using a three‐round census of agro‐dealers in Tanzania's Morogoro Region, we document annual firm entry and exit rates of 33% and 17%, respectively.
Alix Naugler, Hope Michelson, Sarah Janzen, Christopher Magomba   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source