security. Long-term changes in climate will disproportionately affect tropical regions, meaning poor farmers in Sub …-Saharan Africa will likely bear the brunt of adverse impacts. Adaptation plays an important role in reducing vulnerability to climate … change and is therefore critical and of concern in developing countries, particularly in Africa where vulnerability is high …

The Ghana School Feeding Programme is the local version of the Home Grown School Feeding. Launched in 2005, the … Domestic Food production in Ghana. Studies have shown that the programme have had tremendous impact on school enrolment … not succeeded in boosting domestic food production. Over the years no clear procurement procedures relating to the …

Development Programme in Abia State, Nigeria. Multi-stage random sampling technique was used in the selection of the local … result also posted the Gini-coefficient (measures the extent of inequalities in income distribution) of the male and female … fadama land equitably put in place. …

Plantain is one of the most important staple crops in Nigeria and has the potential to contribute to food security and … production systems in Southwestern Nigeria. Primary data were collected using structured questionnaire from 260 producers … randomly selected from major production areas in the zone. Secondary data on port charges and world prices were also utilized …

household poverty in Hanoi‘s peri-urban areas. Factors affecting poverty were examined using a logit regression model. Our …. These results, therefore, confirm that farmland loss has had no impact on poverty in the short-term. This study also found … assets and participation in nonfarm activities before farmland loss. We propose some policy implications that can help …

With declining Irish potato production trends in Kenya this paper identifies and analyses factors that influence the … economic efficiency of smallholder Irish potato producers in Kenya by drawing on data from random sample of 130 smallholder …-economic characteristics and institutional factors. Empirical results show decreasing returns to scale in production. The mean economic …

the rice policies put in place. A collaborative multi-country pilot study on policy and institutional arrangements effects …, and Niger. In-depth surveys were carried out at both village and household levels to collect qualitative and quantitative … by the producers in these countries is the commercialization of their product and their inability to take advantage of …

Commercial rice imports have accounted for approximately 61%, food aid in rice accounted for about 2%, and domestic … rice accounted for some 37% per annum of rice consumption in Ghana over the four years between 2000 and 2003. Compared to … the 1990s, these figures show a gradual decline in the share of local rice production in the total quantities of rice …

surplus and input use in Kenya. A selectivity model was used that accounts not only for the effects of fixed and variable … transactions costs but also for the role of assets, technology, and support services in promoting input use and generating a … marketable surplus. Output supply and input demand responses to changes in transactions costs and price and non-price factors …