Government strategies to promote social protection and agricultural development in Ethiopia are closely intertwined. Interventions such […]
The paper explores how social protection and agricultural policies interact, creating either synergies or conflicts between […]
In this paper the example of cocoa production in Ghana is used to explore how the […]
Following the 2008 global food crises, the agricultural development agenda has gained renewed international attention. Though […]
This paper provides a critical account of the cereal seed systems in Malawi both in a […]
Various explanations have been advanced for the persistent under?performance of agriculture in many African countries, where […]
There are nearly seven million rural people in the Limpopo Basin, many of whom are poor. […]
Interviews conducted with smallholder farmers in Cochabamba, Bolivia, to determine their knowledge of weeds and weed […]
A sampling programme for incidence and phenology of H. armigera and its natural enemies was set […]
The project completed a survey and selection of sites for population and mortality studies in Phase […]
Topics addressed in this presentation include: Overview of the agricultural sector; Phases of agricultural development; Decline […]
This presentation was given at the 22nd World’s Poultry Congress, in Istanbul, Turkey, 9 June 2004. […]
The livelihood of over 3,500 rural poultry producers in RIU project area has been significantly improved […]
It is widely recognized that mineral fertilizers must play an important part in improving agricultural productivity […]
This presentation was given at the AHAT BSAS International Conference in Kohn Kaen, Thailand, 15 November […]
This Briefing summarizes the results of pilot surveys of poultry market participants (chicken farmers, chick producers, […]
The rapid growth in demand for pork in Viet Nam presents an opportunity for rural swine […]
The rapid growth in demand for pork in Viet Nam presents an opportunity for rural households […]
The smallholder coffee sector in Malawi has undergone major reforms in recent years. There is anecdotal […]
The power of a seed is unlimited. As a powerful agent of change, seeds can be […]
The Rift Valley Products (RVP) company restored and took a long term lease on the disused […]
An understanding of farmers’ perceptions of pests and their existing pest control methods can make an […]
Reform of the smallholder coffee sector in Malawi is discussed. The study is organised as follows. […]
F odder makes up 70 percent of livestock inputs and is crucial to the livelihood of […]
Given that the majority of the rural poor keep livestock and that markets for livestock products […]
This study presents a detailed review of the poultry sector in Ghana with an aim to […]
The overall aim of the project described in this Final Technical report was to promote a […]
Growing attention to climate change around the world has led to a wide array of policy […]
Smallholder farmers need information on plant diseases. Ten plant health clinics (Postas para Plantas) evolved in […]
This Research Highlight looks at ways in which the negative effects of unsustainable land use can […]
As part of a 3-year project focusing on improving the livelihoods of poor livestock keepers by […]
The study was carried out to assess community awareness, perceptions, knowledge and attitude to zoonoses in […]
Research was conducted on the biological control of the pest insect Helicoverpa armigera on small farms […]
This paper will concentrate on the hypothesis that the resource ‘water’ can be developed on many […]
We present a market-literate framework in the form of a Market Map. The Market Map serves […]
New opportunities for farmers in the developing world to benefit from carbon payments for improved agricultural […]
Recent developments in weather and seasonal rainfall predictions have increased the accuracy and reliability of the […]
This PPLPI feature document summarises the control measures being considered for the poultry sector in Viet […]
This paper explores different options and scenarios for the future of food aid in Ethiopia, especially […]
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) caused by the H5N1 strain was first reported in Southeast Asia […]
This chapter describes obstacles to financing mitigation in smallholder agricultural systems, and provides recommendations to overcome […]
Nine different techniques were used to record the initial change in the physical and hydrological properties […]
This is a practical toolkit aimed at helping smallholder farmers and providers of farm mechanisation services […]
This paper investigates the relationship between food security and commercialisation using data from a household survey […]
This policy brief discusses contract farming as a potential business model for transforming the indigenous poultry […]
Weed scientists, agronomists and an anthropologist in Bolivia surveyed farmers’ practices and studied the ethnobotany of […]
This report evaluates the 2006/7 Malawi Government Agricultural Input Subsidy Programme (AISP). The main objective of […]
This article attempts to explain how changes in population dynamics and smallholder agriculture have led to […]
This presentation details research, using surveys, on the commercialization of smallholder agriculture in the coffee and […]
Topics addressed in this presentation include: Objectives of the study on agricultural commercialization in Ethiopia; What […]
This paper aims to engage in alternative perspectives of agricultural commercialisation to shift thinking and ways […]
Topics addressed in this presentation include motivations for and definitions of commercialization of smallholder agriculture, discussion […]
To achieve food security for many in low-income and middle-income countries for whom this is already […]
This book reviews the state of agricultural climate change mitigation globally, with a focus on identifying […]
Smallholders have important roles to play in both the prevention of dangerous climate change by reducing […]
The emphasis of this report is on harnessing mitigation finance for smallholder agriculture. Section 1 provides […]
Despite the achievements of smallholders in Asia during the green revolution, there is scepticism that Africa’s […]
In late 2008 Bio United (a subsidiary of Biolands International) started operations with no grid power, […]
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond […]
This study was funded by the Crop Protection Programme (CPP) of the Department for International Development […]
Global food security is under threat by climate change, and the impacts fall disproportionately on resource-poor […]
This brief is produced by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), in partnership […]
This Briefing Paper was written as a summary of a workshop report, written by Stephen Devereux […]
The coffee sub-sector is very important to the Ethiopian economy – in 2005, coffee export generated […]
This paper considers alternative perspectives on agricultural commercialisation. The paper attempts to get away from the […]
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is predicted to experience considerable negative impacts of climate change. The IPCC Fourth […]
Improved dual-purpose food-feed crops have potential to raise income and improve the lives of smallholder farmers […]
This case study describes a pilot quality assurance scheme for poultry products in Viet Nam which […]
Pork and poultry play a key role in contribution of protein for people in Viet Nam, […]
This policy paper will look at land issues in general and the argument that smallholder agriculture […]
This policy paper will assess the prospects and constraints for shifting the yield frontier in grain […]
The prevailing orthodoxy is to see the problem of smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia strictly as a […]
Over the last fifty years food production per person in Africa has grown disappointingly slowly at […]
The following suite of case studies were developed for an agriculture and climate change workshop supported […]
After decades of underinvestment and policy neglect, agricultural development in emerging economies has quickly risen up […]
In recent years, IPM extension came to mean FFS (farmer field school). Most studies of FFS […]
Smallholder farmers in dryland areas, including the Arab region, face many risks, including those relating to […]
Despite their compelling logic, index insurance contracts that transfer risk from smallholder farmers and pastoralists have met with […]
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is a specialized agency of the United Nations established […]
A report based on proceedings of a conference held in Beijing, 5-6 March 2008. This report […]
This presentation overviews the work by the World Bank’s Agricultural Risk Management team in index-based weather […]