Sub-Saharan Africa has long been beset with food insecurity. Investment in small-scale irrigation may provide a solution to address the challenge by extending crop production into the dry season.

Recent agricultural transformation in Asia and Africa has witnessed the gradual spread of mechanization in agricultural areas that are still largely made up of smallholder farming.

An examination of the scope and depth of research on the five major types of risks in agriculture: Which have received sufficient attention and which have not?  
 

An economywide systems-approach in Mozambique that combines ex post household econometric analysis of investment impacts with ex antemodeling of growth and poverty linkages.

This set of papers identify strategic gaps, constraints, and opportunities in Agricultural Research for Development (AR4D) and links to poverty reduction.

Gaps in the evidence should not deter the careful design and implementation of programs and policies to strengthen women’s land rights.