This paper reviews the evidence on smallholder market participation, with a focus on staple foodgrains (i.e., cereals … smallholders out of the semi-subsistence poverty trap that appears to ensnare much of rural Africa. The conceptual and empirical … evidence suggests that interventions aimed at facilitating smallholder organization, at reducing the costs of intermarket …

) as often experienced on smallholder farms, were also highly susceptible to excessive sheet erosion soil losses thereby …