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Conservation agriculture improves adaptive capacity of cropping systems to climate stress in Malawi
Improving adaptive capacity of crop systems through minimum mechanical soil disturbance, permanent soil organic cover, and crop species diversification.
COVID-19 induced significant economic and social disruptions in India. Rural households, including smallholders, were affected by loss in migrant income, livelihood and farm and non-farm incomes.
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.
Smallholder mechanization induced by yield-enhancing biological technologies: Evidence from Nepal and Ghana
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?
Effects of agricultural mechanization on economies of scope in crop production in Nigeria
A study of how adoption of animal traction or tractors affects economies of scope for rice, grains, and legumes/seeds in Nigeria.
Stakeholders prioritization of climate-smart agriculture interventions: Evaluation of a framework
Presenting a framework to help governments, development organizations, and the private sector prioritize locally suitable climate-smart agricultural interventions.
Global and regional scale agricultural monitoring systems aim to provide up-to-date information regarding food production to different actors and decision makers in support of global and national food security.
Linking agricultural investments to growth and poverty: An economywide approach applied to Mozambique
An economywide systems-approach in Mozambique that combines ex post household econometric analysis of investment impacts with ex antemodeling of growth and poverty linkages.
Women's land rights as a pathway to poverty reduction: Framework and review of available evidence
Gaps in the evidence should not deter the careful design and implementation of programs and policies to strengthen women’s land rights.
Rainfall shocks and agricultural productivity: Implication for rural household consumption
What are the impacts of rainfall shocks on agricultural productivity and crop-specific land productivity, and negative rainfall shocks on household consumption?
Assessing the harvested area gap in China
Generating global crop distribution maps
"While agricultural production statistics are reported on a geopolitical – often national – basis we often need to know the status of production or productivity within specific sub-regions, watersheds, or agroecological zones.