In 2005, India passed the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA, “the Act”), a law guaranteeing all rural households 100 days of work at a minimum wage through the building of durable assets, which created one of the largest anti-poverty

Background

Measuring yields accurately is critical for evaluating the impact of interventions that aim to increase agricultural productivity.

In smallholder households that engage in commercial agriculture, women are often involved in the phys-ical labor related to the cash crop, but do not engage in the market-facing activities.

Increased capital use in agriculture, including mechanization, is con-sidered an integral process of agricultural transformation.

The agricultural sector in developing countries including those in South Asia, like Nepal, faces dual challenges of the persistent dominance of smallholder-based farming, and at the same time, rising labor costs due partly to growing non-farm sect

Vietnam has experienced rapid growth in agricultural mechani-zation lately; particularly in the use of tractors and combine-harvesters.

Despite economic transformations and urbanization, declining shares of the workforce employed in the agricultural sector, and gradual growth of agricultural mechanization, production costs in the agricultural sector and food prices remain high in

China has experienced unprecedented economic achievement for more than three decades and remains one of the fastest growing economies in the world.

Agriculture continues to play an important role in African economies.

This project tests two approaches to increasing women’s integration into and returns from cash crop value chains.

There are more than 120 organizations and programs in Malawi working on agriculture that include extension service provision among their main activities.

The results of this study reveal that the full inclusion of crop production in the forest landscape restoration approach could produce largescale, worldwide benefits for food security and therefore facilitate a wide uptake of restoration practices