This paper analyses how coffee-producing households responded to the low coffee prices prevailing around 2003. We provide theory on differential responses in regions dedicated to coffee growing, compared to more diversified or better accessible regions. We show how labor market effects can...

Modern biotechnology will generate crops with higher yields and enhanced resistance to pests and diseases. In the case of perennial crops, the age composition of the present stand, the farmers' willingness to invest, and the yield profiles of old and new trees determine the speed of adoption of...

1. Optimistic determinism or explaining a miracle / Ton Dietz. [et al.] -- 2. Beyond population growth : intensification and conservation in dryland small-scale agriculture, Machakos and Kitui districts, Kenya / Fred Zaal and Remco H. Oostendorp -- 3. Farm- and household-level drivers of...