Several factors contribute to the low level of improved variety use in Ethiopia. Among those, on the supply side, is … limited public and private investment in the sector. Beginning in 2011, the Government of Ethiopia introduced a novel … smallholders. Using a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach, the study finds that DSM led to a 26 percent increase …

Ethiopia and Tanzania, this study examines the nature of credit constraints facing smallholders and the factors that affect …, such as chemical fertilizer, improved seeds, and irrigation technologies, among smallholders. Past research and much policy … high transaction costs, can also play important roles in credit-rationing for smallholders. Using primary survey data from …

land tenure reforms. This study, thus, uses five rounds of household panel data from Tigray, Ethiopia, collected in the …

only improving the institutional environment, will not result in positive returns on investment for smallholders; reforms …

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 …

Despite the urbanization and gradual rise of medium-to-large scale farming sector, smallholders without substantial … agricultural mechanization among smallholders for whom the scope for exploiting complementarity with land is limited. We test the … farm power use, are important drivers of adoptions of agricultural mechanization among smallholders. Using the three rounds …

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