This paper contributes to literature on agricultural technology adoption by using a novel data set that combines data from two large-scale household surveys with historical rainfall data to understand the determinants and the intensity of adoption of Conservation Farming (CF)practices in Zambia....

Food Security Research Project (FSRP; Rwanda Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Forestry; U.S. Agency for International Development

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

Food Security Research Project (FSRP) and Division des Statistiques Agricoles (DSA) Ministère de l’Agricuture, de l’Elevage et des Forêts, MINAGRI

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

The paper consists of three parts. The first part of the paper is a review of agricultural performance in Ethiopia over the past forty years. The second part diagnoses agricultural system performance and food security problems in Ethiopia and discusses some tentative practical strategies for...

Food Security Research Project (FSRP) et Division des Statistiques Agricoles (DSA) Ministère de l’Agricuture, de l’Elevage et des Forêts, MINAGRI

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Directorate of Economics, Republic of Mozambique

The study reported in this paper measures differences in profitability between conservation farming (CF) practices and conventional agriculture by comparing the value of differential output with the differential input costs. The main objective is to address and fill several important knowledge...

This paper investigates the relationship between income diversification and income change within Zambian smallholder households, and investigates what the constraints of income diversification are in this group. A panel data set of roughly 7000 smallholder farmer households interviewed in 2001...