, most smallholder farmers remain poor. This study sought to characterize agricultural commercialization trends, identify and …Smallholder Agriculture is key to livelihoods of many rural households in developing and transition economies. In Kenya … prioritize constraints to participation in markets, analyse determinants of percentage of output sold, and explore strategies to …

With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … technology could potentially accelerate this trend. Here, we use survey data of small-scale banana producers in Kenya to … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya …

-toxicity pesticides elimination, which aim at human, food and environmental safety. To investigate 491 farmers in Sichuan Province, the …

opportunity for small African farmers. The challenge is how to organize these farmers to seize the opportunities being offered by … the emerging market. We argue in this paper that the development of entrepreneurial perspectives on small farmers …

Drought is endemic to southern Africa. In Zimbabwe farmers have been experiencing drought once every two to three years …. Relief agencies have traditionally responded to drought by providing farmers with enough seed and fertilizer to enable them … options for farmers to maintain higher productivity levels. ICRISAT has been working with government, NGOs and the donor …