Productivity growth emanating from scientific advances offered by biotechnology and other plant breeding initiatives offers great promise for meeting the growing food demand worldwide. This justifies...
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The expansion of agro-dealers into remote areas can be seen as conducive to more smallholders adopting new technologies and inputs, to include improved seed and fertilizer. However, lower...
This study assessed the actual changes in deforestation levels and improved livelihoods caused by the adoption of climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices.
The findings show that farmers' livelihoods have improved...
In Tanzania, diets are dominated by starchy staple crops such as maize, levels of malnutrition are high and largely attributed to lack of dietary diversity. We employed...
Sustainable agricultural technologies have impacted positively on staple crop yields in Asia and some parts of Sub-Sahara Africa. However, the adoption of similar technologies in vegetable subsector...
Proponents of large-scale land investments (LSLI) still promote them as a development opportunity, which can lead, among other benefits, to job creation and enhanced food...
This brief provides a country-level framework and insights for assessing the potential to develop and scale Digital Climate Advisory Services (DCAS). The framework is intended for service providers and other actors...
Most food in sub-Saharan Africa is produced on small farms. Using large datasets from household surveys conducted across many countries, we fnd that the majority of farms...
There has been a surge in the attention to sustainable agricultural mechanization for Africa. The importance of supporting agricultural mechanization in the value chain in order to achieve agricultural and rural development...
Small-scale farmers and other rural people are the backbone of the global food system. From farm to table, smallscale farmers, vendors, processors, marketers, and others feed their...