ABSTRACT A host of best water and soil management practices (BMPs) hold promise in addressing water […]
This report presents findings from the baseline data collection exercise conducted for the Global Framework for […]
This research highlights a number of issues facing the low use of inputs by smallholder farmers. […]
This proceeding presents the key outcomes from research that focused on the extremely low input/low output […]
Any decision-making by policymakers on HPAI prevention and control is challenged by the need to avoid […]
Topics addressed in this presentation include: Overview of the agricultural sector; Phases of agricultural development; Decline […]
This research is based on a three-year study on the effects of intensification, which examines the […]
Poverty and land degradation in the mid-Andean valleys of Bolivia are major interrelated problems necessitating approaches […]
Smallholder vegetable production is an important engine for economic growth in peri-urban areas of East and […]
The primary objective of the RIU poultry project was to transform the indigenous chicken industry into […]
The livelihood of over 3,500 rural poultry producers in RIU project area has been significantly improved […]
The Smallholder Tea Authority (STA) was formed shortly after independence. By 1990 2,400 ha had been […]
Several waves of HPAI caused by the H5N1 strain have swept through Vietnam over the past […]
Pigeonpea is an extremely important drought-tolerant legume grown by smallholder farmers in marginal farming systems in […]
In this, the second of two review papers, we discuss potential management strategies for the soil […]
In this, the first of two review papers, we discuss the soil pest problems encountered in […]
This is one of 280 summaries describing key outputs from the projects run by DFID’s 10-year […]
This Briefing summarizes the results of pilot surveys of poultry market participants (chicken farmers, chick producers, […]
This brief describes a pilot study for an alternative approach carried out in Northern Viet Nam: […]
The smallholder coffee sector in Malawi has undergone major reforms in recent years. There is anecdotal […]
This scoping study assesses the opportunities and constraints for future economic development of sustainable vegetable seed […]
This paper describes the critical role of seed production and distribution systems for scaling-out forage and […]
The vision for RIU includes the empowerment of farmers through strengthening of smallholder farmer organisations to […]
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 […]
The purpose of the project was to contribute to making cotton more profitable for smallholders by […]
This document represents the final report of project R7085, “Promotion of practical approaches to soil and […]
The recent expansion in the export horticulture sector in Kenya has provided smallholder farmers with exciting […]
Forty-one percent of the world’s sorghum area is located in Africa, yet sorghum yields in this […]
This Research Highlight looks at ways in which the negative effects of unsustainable land use can […]
The report outlines the potential role of modern irrigation methods against the background of increasing water […]
This document represents the final report of NRSP project R6675, ‘Modelling the sustainability of frontier farming […]
Climate change and variability have undermined efforts to meet the livelihood needs of vulnerable smallholder communities […]
This group, which is concerned with the applications of mathematics to agricultural science, is sponsored by […]
This document represents the final report of project R6525, “Methods of economic and environmental assessment of […]
Access to markets for smallholder poultry farmers is crucial for exploiting the potential of poultry production […]
Smallholder farmers are the main producers of cabbage and kale – popular crops for the periurban […]
Manure is a key input to smallholder farming systems, especially in the semi-arid environment of West […]
This study aims to review and document the existing seed multiplication and delivery systems in four […]
The current status of goat production and farmers’ attitudes to feeding them acacia and other pods […]
The project aimed to identify institutional interventions that would improve market access for poor maize producers […]
New opportunities for farmers in the developing world to benefit from carbon payments for improved agricultural […]
Ghana was one of the first countries in Africa to embark on structural adjustment reforms. 25 […]
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 […]
To determine the most important production constraints and associated yield losses for six major food crops […]
Ethiopia has been structurally in food-deficit since at least 1980. Today, Ethiopia is the world’s most […]
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 […]
This document represents the final report of project R5804, “Evaluating soil fertility constraints on smallholder agriculture […]
Addressing issues of animal feed scarcity has the potential of raising incomes and improving the lives […]
This is a practical toolkit aimed at helping smallholder farmers and providers of farm mechanisation services […]
FIPS Africa (Farm Input Promotions – Africa) is a further development of an effort which began […]
This paper examines the case of smallholder poultry production and adjustments arising from the risk of […]
Application of Innovation system conceptualization in agriculture development projects is rapidly growing in significance in the […]
Weed scientists, agronomists and an anthropologist in Bolivia surveyed farmers’ practices and studied the ethnobotany of […]
This article attempts to explain how changes in population dynamics and smallholder agriculture have led to […]
This presentation looks at the effects of different HPAI disease scenarios on livelihoods, and at possible […]
Cotton in Uganda is a smallholder enterprise and average yields fall well below the potential of […]
This presentation details research, using surveys, on the commercialization of smallholder agriculture in the coffee and […]
Topics addressed in this presentation include motivations for and definitions of commercialization of smallholder agriculture, discussion […]
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 […]
Swidden (also called shifting cultivation) has long been the dominant farming system in Montane Mainland Southeast […]
The recognition that innovation occurs in networks of heterogeneous actors and requires broad systemic support beyond […]
The ‘mile a minute weed’ Mikania micrantha is plant species which strangles forest and crops plants […]
This presentation outlines work conducted to assess the level of compliance of poultry value chain actors […]
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 […]
This Briefing Paper argues that agricultural and social protection policies in Ethiopia have become increasingly synergistic, […]
Despite impressive progress on poverty reduction at the national level in Ghana, chronic poverty and livelihood […]
The coffee sub-sector is very important to the Ethiopian economy – in 2005, coffee export generated […]
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is predicted to experience considerable negative impacts of climate change. The IPCC Fourth […]
This policy paper will look at land issues in general and the argument that smallholder agriculture […]
The prevailing orthodoxy is to see the problem of smallholder agriculture in Ethiopia strictly as a […]