In developing economies, smallholders apply their own specialized knowledge and exert costly effort to manage their farms. To raise overall productivity, NGOs and governments are advocating various knowledge sharing and learning platforms for farmers to exchange a variety of farming techniques....

To mitigate the farmer poverty and income inequality, many developing countries have introduced subsidy schemes to improve the incomes of farmers. Two commonly observed schemes are the input-based subsidies, which aim to reduce the input purchasing costs of farmers, and the output-based...

Can technology and operations enable the world to achieve various United Nation Sustainable Development Goals? I provide my own perspective on this question by focusing on the issue of gender equality through the lens of “women’s economic empowerment”. To do so, I use case examples to...

When formal distribution channels are absent in developing countries, micro-retailers travel a long distance to replenish their stocks directly from suppliers. This “informal” replenishment strategy is inefficient due to high imputed travel costs involved in the replenishment process. To...