smallholders. The objective of this research is to understand how development organizations are conceptualizing and developing … agricultural value chains in Ghana to include smallholders. The study is based on case studies of five programs supported by … encourage the development of interlinked vertical contracts between smallholders and buyers and investments to improve the …

trade wars).This paper makes two quantitative, forward-looking assessments for the future of food and agriculture in the LAC …

groundnut — among 1,200 households in Malawi. Farmers answered a detailed questionnaire designed to learn about losses during …

. To combat these challenges, conservation agriculture (CA) is widely promoted as a sustainable package of agricultural … adoption in southern Malawi. Unlike what is implicitly assumed when these packages of practices are introduced, farmers view …

agriculture sector. In this context, Myanmar's rubber sector has the potential to become an even greater source of export earnings … only improving the institutional environment, will not result in positive returns on investment for smallholders; reforms …

Despite the urbanization and gradual rise of medium-to-large scale farming sector, smallholders without substantial … mechanization remain central to agriculture in countries like Ghana. Significant knowledge gaps exist on the adoptions of … agricultural mechanization among smallholders for whom the scope for exploiting complementarity with land is limited. We test the …

farming and overcome poverty. However, achieving that goal is challenging for smallholders given their lack of appropriate …