Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are
hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion …

With economic progress, it was expected that smallholders would fade into history. This has
been the experience in much of the global North and it was expected to occur as …

Large-scale investments in farmland have been criticized, chiefly, because of questions
about the capacity of the countries targeted by these land deals to effectively manage these …

This food policy report presents a typology of the diverse livelihood strategies and
development pathways for smallholder farmers in develo** countries, and offers policy …

This Article explores the global phenomenon of" land-grabbing": the buying or leasing of
large tracts of farmland, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, by governments or private …

This study uses panel data from 1,142 Kenya smallholder households over four survey
periods to examine the determinants of participation in land rental markets and to quantify …

While scholars long recognized the importance of land markets as a key driver of rural non-
farm development and transformation in rural areas, evidence on the extent of their …

Agricultural labor productivity (ALP) remains low in China. The unique land tenure system
and fast-growing land rental market in China provides a new perspective in understanding …

We study patronage politics in authoritarian Vietnam, using an exhaustive panel of ranking
officials from 2000 to 2010 to estimate their promotions' impact on infrastructure in their …

Land scarcity is increasingly recognized as a problem impeding rural household welfare in
densely populated areas of Africa. This study utilizes household-and parcel-level data from …