Accurate information on farmer and consumer behavior is the foundation for Identifying public investments and policies that can effectively promote national food security and income growth objectives. This report synthesizes recent findings on smallholder crop marketing behavior and urban...

À l'initiative de l'USAID, la BAD, MSU et l’INSAH, une quarantaine de chercheurs, de décideurs politiques et d’opérateurs-terrain venus de 19 pays et représentants une vingtaine d'institutions Africaines ou internationales se sont retrouvés à Abidjan dans le cadre d'un atelier...

The research reported here draws attention to the structure of landholding as a set of mechanisms through which demographic changes in agrarian societies can alter the natural environment.

The objective of this research was to provide USAID with a diagnostic-prescriptive assessment of the mango commodity system that would be useful in the design and management of USAID’s project portfolio. A secondary objective was to demonstrate how a market-guided food systems approach could...

The results of an International Conference held on May 18-21, 1982, at Michigan State University are presented. The main objective was to identify critical issues related to data processing, hardware, software, and institutionalization and training for research for agricultural and rural...

This paper examines the conditions that would be needed for a possible farming systems research project in the Region of Mopti (Mali) to have a significant production impact.