Highlights: Farmers growing sugarcane earned more income, produced more food and had more assets. Farmers growing sugarcane were more food secure...
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crop production household Impact Assessment
Under high climatic, disease and market uncertainty, smallholder farmers make heuristic decisions on whether to manage risk and invest in profitable alternatives or, as a risk-averse mechanism...
This study was conducted to identify the determining factors of participation in irrigated farming and to estimate its impact on households' farm income and food security using cross-sectional data...
This study used a panel data model to examine the relationship between agricultural diversification and dietary diversity of farm households across three waves of nationally representative Bangladesh...
Drought tolerant (DT) maize varieties have received massive support in sub-Saharan Africa because of their potential to protect smallholder farmers against drought-related maize...
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...
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Temperature and rainfall variability.
Impact of climate change on crop production and household food security.
Farmers indigenous knowledge on climate change adaptation measures...
Drought-tolerant maize varieties (DTMVs) offer hope as an adaptation strategy for farmers facing increasing frequency of droughts in sub-Saharan Africa. Adoption of these varieties also offers...
CONTEXT: Climate change and variability have been identified as major threats to key sectors such as agriculture that drive economic growth and sustainable development in developing countries...
There is a resurgence of interest in crop diversification as a strategy to deal with a variety of issues including malnutrition in the context of a changing climate and poorly developed markets. However, the empirical evidence...