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Ghana’s horticulture subsector is one of the subsectors with the most smallholder farmers and the most potential, but it is struggling to develop due to a lack of innovative methods. The ability to intelligently adopt...

Policy interest often focuses on specific instruments that effectively enhance household resilience to food security shocks. Based on microeconomic household demand and resilience theory, this paper...

This study analyzes the impact of a component of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technology—Striga-resistant maize (SRM) varieties and mineral fertilizer—on maize yield and food security using two rounds...

This study determines the impact of the adoption of improved rice varieties on household food security using farm-level data from 900 households in Northern Ghana. We employed the doubly...

This study complements the extant literature by assessing the role of governance dynamics in food security in Ghana for the period 1980–2019. The empirical evidence is based on the fully modified ordinary least...

Public agriculture expenditure is a significant growth catalyst. However, evaluating the impact of public agriculture expenditure on food security remains scanty. This paper assessed the impact of public...

This online resource data on the impact of the pandemic on livelihoods, access to markets and food security by country in the Caribbean.

Sub-Saharan Africa must urgently improve food security. Phosphorus availability is one of the major barriers to this due to low historical agricultural use. Shared socioeconomic pathways...

Highlights Supplying men and women farmers with motor pumps for small-scale irrigation did not increase women's empowerment. Rather, the intervention had negative spillover effects...

Using data from 1995-2015, an empirical study from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), led by Vijesh Krishna, CIMMYT...