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Leveraging farmer household aspirations to target and scale agricultural innovations - an approach built on novel partnerships and methods
This online report presents progress on an approach built on novel partnerships and methods to leverage farmer household aspirations.
Who are those people we call farmers? Rural Kenyan aspirations and realities
Rural Kenyan households have different aspirations and income portfolio strategies, including agricultural intensification and income diversification. This article reports on a study that interviewed 624 households to ...
Can African smallholders farm themselves out of poverty?
A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers out of poverty. The emphasis in programming often implicitly emphasizes focusing on farm ...
Not just farmers: understanding rural aspirations is key to Kenya’s future
Capturing what drives the decision-making and aspirations of rural households, especially among the youth, will help design more effective policies and development initiatives that trigger positive, lasting change within ...
Is rainfed agriculture really a pathway from poverty?
Agriculture’s potential to reduce poverty at household level is explored for rainfed crop production in
Africa and India. A literature survey of crop improvement and natural resource management interventions
demonstrates ...