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Marketing Channel Selection by Smallholder Farmers
This article aims at analyzing Beninese smallholder famers’ selection
of high value markets, such as export and processing-oriented
marketing channels, in the pineapple supply chain. Four main
marketing channels were ...
Poverty eradication and food security through agriculture in Africa: Rethinking objectives and entry points
Agriculture in Africa is expected to meet the dual objectives of providing food and helping people to escape poverty. African agriculture is dominated by smallholdings and donors generally target their agricultural support ...
Rethinking poverty eradication and food security through agriculture in Africa
Rethinking poverty eradication and food security through agriculture in Africa
Re-designing smallholder farming futures for reduced vulnerability to climate change in semi-arid southern Africa
Climate change will impact the productivity of maize-based crop-livestock systems and the food security of smallholders depending on them in semi-arid southern Africa. Earlier results from testing climate change adaptation ...
Food and nutritional security through improved production practices in legumes in Afghanistan
Restricted maximum likelihood method was used to assess the performance of introduced
improved varieties of chickpea and mungbean (an important plant protein source in Afghanistan)
in comparison to local varieties using ...
Participatory on-farm demonstrations on food legumes in Afghanistan: Role in enhancing food and nutrition security
Objective of this study was to assess the performance of introduced improved varieties of chickpea and mungbean with associated agronomic practices in comparison with local varieties through farmers’ participatory evaluation ...
Sustainable Intensification in Smallholder Agriculture: An integrated Systems Research Approach
Sustainable intensification has recently been developed and adopted as a key concept and driver for research and policy in sustainable agriculture. It includes ecological, economic and social dimensions, where food and ...