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Building a climate change-resilient food system in Korea: The case of extension and technology dissemination services
Evaluating risk of aflatoxin field contamination from climate change using new modules inside DSSAT
Aflatoxins affect the health of close to 70 percent of the population of the world through contaminated food.
The cow stock of smallholder farmers with less than 100 cows still accounted for nearly 50% of total cows in China. Since the milk scandal occurred in 2008, raw milk safety has become focus for the sound development of the Chinese dairy industry.
The success of nutrition-sensitive agricultural interventions in countries in the Middle East and North Africa has not been examined in much depth.
The role of health, experience, and educational attainment in agricultural production: Evidence from smallholders in Burkina Faso
Byte by byte: Policy innovation for transforming Africa’s food system with digital technologies
Africa’s digital transformation is underway, creating opportunities for the continent to leverage the potential benefits of digitalization for agriculture, particularly smallholder farmers.
To narrow this knowledge gap, a smallholder farm household survey was conducted in six governorates in Upper Egypt in April and May 2018 following the winter cropping season.
This paper characterizes smallholder farm households in Upper Egypt based on data from a comprehensive farm household survey.
Assessment of flood recession agriculture for food security in Northern Ghana: An optimization modelling approach
A careful selection of crop mixtures plus increasing farmers' access to improved seeds, integrating pest management and credit, and mainstreaming flood recession agriculture will improve food security in northern Ghana.
Does greater food safety consciousness benefit smallholder dairy farmers? Evidence from Nepal
Food quality and safety have been the central issues of food economics and are considered among the most important food attributes. However, evidence of the impact of food safety consciousness on consumers' food purchasing behavior is limited.
Social networking amid social differentiation in the adoption of improved technologies: A case study in Rajasthan, India
This paper evaluates the role of social networks in the adoption of mustard hybrids.
Empowering smallholder farmers’ organizations through non-public extension service providers: A case study and lessons from Mozambique
The role and impact of non-state extension services providers have not been studied adequately. In this paper, we assess the performance of the non-State extension service provision through farmers organization (FOs) in Mozambique.
A model to examine farm household trade-offs and synergies with an application to smallholders in Vietnam
Three new modules related to budget, labor, & human nutrition for the ‘FarmDESIGN” model position the farming enterprise within the farm household.
Most studies of agricultural transformation document the impact of agricultural productivity on macroeconomic indicators of development.
This dataset serves to shed light on the feasibility of picture-based crop insurance (PBI), which is a new way of delivering affordable and easy-to-understand crop insurance, using farmers’ smartphone pictures to minimize the costs of loss verific