This study is designed to assess the factors that affect smallholder rice farmer's participation
in market. In addition it also examines the effect of commercialization on the welfare of …

This paper explores the market participation decision of smallholder farmers in Bangladesh
and tries to sort out the most important factors that influence smallholder farmers' decision to …

The purpose of the study was to investigate the information needs and barriers of rural
smallholder farmers in Mzimba North in Malawi. A mixed methods approach was adopted for …

The cultivation of spice crops in Malawi represents an underutilized opportunity to drive
substantial economic growth. A variety of spice crops grown in Malawi include chilies …

Future climatic and agro-ecological changes in Africa are uncertain and associated with
high degrees of spatial and temporal variability and this change is differently simulated …

In the context of contemporary concerns about climate change and food security,
Conservation Agriculture (CA) has emerged as a well-supported and central component of …

Increasingly, resilience is being incorporated into planning and social protection policy.
People have been facing shocks, both natural and anthropogenic, forever, devising and …

This paper examines the effects of intra-household power dynamics particularly on food
security and household nutrition. The novelty of this paper is that, beyond the standard …

The study explored determinants of commercialization among selected smallholder potato
farmers in Bizana, Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Increasingly presented as a rural …

Purpose This paper aims to assess whether official development assistance (ODA) or
foreign aid has been effective in reducing extreme poverty; test whether the type and source …