Malawi has experienced a forward shift in its demand for Irish potato (Solanum tuberosum) consumption. Given limited … Dedza district of Malawi using a translog cost function, inefficiency effect model and input elasticities derived from a …

Transaction costs play a key role in the behaviour of smallholders in developing countries. We exploit the quasi … experimental design of the introduction of an additional tobacco auction floor in Malawi in order to investigate the impact of a … of tobacco, the major cash crop in Malawi. Estimations are based on annual data by Extension Planning Area, 198 in total …

leads to significantly larger agricultural investment and riskier production choices in agriculture. The salient constraint …

-private partnerships of German Development Cooperation with private foundations and private companies around an agriculture-based supply … crop, the revenues it generates can boost food security among smallholders via the income channel and can also promote … assessment is needed and this must be adapted to the especially complex conditions of African smallholder agriculture. …

While policies and institutional arrangements aimed at intensification and growth of the Indian agriculture sector are …