Contract farming has gained in importance in many developing countries. Previous studies analysed effects of contracts on smallholder farmers’ welfare, yet mostly without considering that different types of contractual relationships exist.

Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior.

Recall biases in retrospective survey data are widely considered to be pervasive and have important implications for effective agricultural research.

This study analyzed the impact of adoption of artificial pollination on productivity, income, poverty and food security among cocoa farmers in Ghana.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several decades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

As intervenções do InovAgro aumentam o uso de insumos agrícolas de alto rendimento por parte dos produtores. As intervenções do InovAgro melhoram o número de intervenções da cadeia de valores não facilitadas ou patrocinadas pelo InovAgro.

Storage is an important aspect of food security in developing countries. Therefore, it is crucial for farmers to have access to sustainable storage technologies to cope with storage losses.

Smallholder farmers in developing countries face substantial constraints that limit their ability to reach their production potential. Two constraints—risk exposure and limited access to liquidity—pose particular challenges.

Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several different constraints limiting their ability to reach their production potential.

Scholarship on African land markets has proliferated in recent years. We contend that this scholarship consists of distinct literatures that examine non-overlapping parts of the system and diverge in their conclusions.

Several factors contribute to the low level of improved variety use in Ethiopia.

A well-measured experiment of multiple yield estimation methods on 237 smallholder maize plots on farms in the Amhara region, Ethiopia.

Malawi is a food-insecure country, and although most households have access to arable land, many rural Malawians cannot reliably obtain enough food to meet their dietary needs.

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development.

Extreme weather causes substantial damage to livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally and are projected to become more frequent in the coming decades as a result of climate change.

Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally.