Introducing small-scale irrigation can bring opportunities for empowerment and exclusion. To support equity and inclusion, projects must go beyond technology access alone.
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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.
In practice, however, warehouse receipt financing has generally failed to deliver the benefits to smallholders hoped for by development economists and practitioners.
Integrating gender into small-scale irrigation
Small-Scale Irrigation (SSI) interventions, like other development interventions, need to take into account men’s and women’s context-specific roles in agriculture and their related gender-based preferences and challenges.
The Ghana Africa Research in Sustainable Intensification for the Next Generation (Africa RISING) Baseline Evaluation Survey (GARBES) survey was implemented from May to July 2014 as part of IFPRI’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) of Africa RISI
Measuring progress toward empowerment: Women's empowerment in agriculture index: Baseline report
Crop price indemnified loans for farmers
Crop price indemnified loans for farmers
Farmers face a particular set of risks that complicate the decision to borrow.
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor.
Banking on the poor
This policy brief is designed to help policymakers and practitioners understand the financial services needed by the poor.