Organic agriculture is often proposed as a more sustainable alternative to current
conventional agriculture. We assess the current understanding of the costs and benefits of …

Rural nonfarm employment (RNFE) and incomes (RNFI) are crucial to Latin American rural
households. The 11 rural household income studies in this volume, reviewed in this paper …

Improving agricultural green total factor productivity (AGTFP) is essential to China's
agricultural sustainable development. Although several studies have focused on China's …

This report is FAO's latest assessment of the long-term outlook for the world's food supplies,
nutrition and agriculture. It presents the projections and the main messages. The projections …

The expansion of the Internet in develo** countries has important implications for the
economic development of rural areas. Although many studies have investigated various …

While the poverty implications of off-farm income have been analyzed in different develo**
countries, much less is known about the impact of off-farm income on household food …

A multiscalar, multistressor assessment of rural vulnerability is presented, illustrating how
globalization, market liberalization, and climatic risk simultaneously structure the livelihood …

More than 10,000 years after the Agricultural Revolution started, millions of rural
smallholders across the develo** world may still derive as much income from foraging …

We report on the prevalence and patterns of non-farm enterprises in six sub-Saharan African
countries, and study their performance in terms of labor productivity, survival and exit, using …

With the increase in climate change and increasing social concerns about environmental
deterioration, sustainability has become a hot topic in both natural and social research …