Related Publications: Guatemala
Conceptual framework
In this chapter, the basic theoretical relationships and definitional issues related to the commercialization of agriculture and described. Simply speaking, cash crops can be defined as crops for sale.
Agricultural processing enterprises: Development potentials and links to the smallholder
In countries where farming and fishing are major productive activities, processing enterprises can have a strategic developmental role. Infrastructural, institutional, and contractural issues arise around them.
Consumption effects of commercialization of agriculture
The commercialization of agricultur has, in many diverse circumstances, led both to an increase in household income and to changes in the way household resources are organized to earn that income, Have these changes meant that food intakes are mor
Introduction and overview [in Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition]
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling resasons.
Health and nutrition effects of commercialization of agriculture
One of the most contentious issues in the cash crop/food crop debate revolves around the impact of commercialization of agriculture on the health and nutritional status of women and children/ This chaper examines the effects of commercialization o
Nontraditional vegetable crops and food security among smallholder farmers in Guatemala
Export-oriented agricultural production has a log tradition in Guatemala that has resulted in a highly dualistic agricultural sector.
Agricultural commercialization, economic development, and nutrition
Why should there be a book about the commercialization of subsistence agriculture, economic development, and nutrition? There are two compelling reasons.
Contract farming and commercialization of agriculture in developing countries
The distributional benefits of commercialization of agriculture, access to commercialization opportunities, and sharing of commercialization risks are functions of institutional arrangements.