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A high-performing, resilient, and competitive processing sector can create remunerative employment opportunities, link producers to growing and lucrative urban markets, and help to ensure that consumers have...

The Core Guidance to enable healthier diets among low-income households in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), while bringing co-benefits and reducing trade-offs for economic development and climate...

IFAD is the only international financial institution that measures the impact of its investments by systematically conducting impact assessments (IAs) on a sample of at least 15 per cent of projects...

The Hand-in-Hand Initiative focuses in the Dry Corridor on these thematic areas: Micro-, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) and Digital Ecosystems for Access to Markets Technological Innovation: Water...

Highlights Local preferences for food security approaches involve a mix of global discourses. Current policy and most stakeholders favor conventional agricultural intensification. Only green...

Over the last decade, farms in Myanmar have gone through important market transitions. On the input side, imports of chemical fertilizer increased four-fold and agro-chemicals eight-fold...

Background Agricultural production by smallholder farm households is a means of livelihood for many rural households in developing economies, including Africa. Commercializing smallholder farmers in the agricultural sector...

Background This study examined the effect of linking small-scale women farmers to markets, referred to as community marketing, and homestead food production extension services in two districts of...

Highlights The scoping review assesses the taxonomy of aggregation models, identifies factors responsible for their re-emergence, analyzes their benefits to smallholders, and pinpoints the research gaps...

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are considered a possible game changer in boosting agricultural productivity, profitability, sustainability, and resilience worldwide. Yet, more evidence is needed...