Rusinamhodzi, L.
Key words: crop production, intensification, extensification, farming systems, tradeoff analysis, maize, legume, manure, fertiliser, southern Africa Soil fertility decline and erratic rainfall are major constraints to crop productivity on smallholder farms in southern Africa. Crop production intensification along with efficient use of chemical fert...
Akpo, E.
Key words: Bénin, genetic quality, growth dynamics, innovation, institutions, multistakeholders process, oil palm, perennials, physiological quality, pot size, seed quality, seed systems, smallholders, social learning. The seed supply system used by smallholder farmers is characterised by many dysfunctions. For perennials, including oil palm, there...
Waarts, Y.R. Ge, L. Ton, G.
Waarts, Y.R. Ge, L. Ton, G. van der Mheen-Sluijer, J.
van der Ploeg, J.D.
Even in the International Year of Family Farming there is confusion about family farming. What is it, and what distinguishes it from entrepreneurial farming or family agribusiness? The confusion tends to be highest in places where the modernisation of agriculture has led society further away from farming. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg takes us into the w...
Bosc, P.M. Berdegué, J. Goïta, M. van der Ploeg, J.D. Sekine, K. Zhang, L.
Yang, H.
The farmer cooperative sector in China has experienced rapid development in the past two decades, in particular after the implementation of the Famer Cooperative Law in 2007. Farmer cooperatives are considered important to mediate between farmers and other actors in the wider social, economic and political environment. Farmer cooperatives also can ...
Bucagu, C.
Keywords: food security, biophysical and socioeconomic conditions, farmer resource groups, productivity, economic evaluation, scenario analysis Smallholder livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa(SSA) are constrained by a number of factors that limit food production and thereby threaten food security. Soil fertility is one of the major factors explaining...
Amankwah, K.
Key words Livestock markets, technical and institutional constraints, innovation systems, veterinary services; smallholder farmers; structural adjustment, scaling out, co-learning, supplementary feeding, herd growth, food security, positive deviants, commercialization, Ghana. Smallholder livestock production systems in sub-Saharan Africa and other ...
Ingram, V.J. Waarts, Y.R. van Vugt, S.M. Ge, L. Wegner, L. Puister-Jansen, L.F.