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Agricultural and food system transformation helps increase farm productivity and encourages farmers to participate in updated value chains, adopt newer technologies, thereby helping farmers transform their livelihoods in a sustainable manner.
Scale and sustainability: The impact of a women’s self-help group program on household economic well-being in India
Microfinance groups are a prominent source of small-scale rural credit in many developing countries.
Can information and communication technologies contribute to poverty reduction? Evidence from poor counties in China
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have received increasing attention in recent years as a promising means to address poverty challenges in rural China.
The effect of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act on the size of outstanding debts in rural India
MGNREGA was introduced in India in 2005 with the aim to improve the livelihood of rural Indian households.
Reducing vulnerability to forced labour and trafficking of women migrant workers from South- to West-Asia
Risk sharing, benefit distribution and cooperation longevity: Sustainable development of dairy farmer cooperatives in China
The sustainable development of cooperatives is essential to agricultural sustainability and is determined mainly by cooperation longevity.
Policy options for advancing seed systems for vegetatively propagated crops in Vietnam
Seed systems for vegetatively propagated crops (VPCs) are frequently governed by regulatory blueprints designed for major cereal crops.
Measuring time use in developing country agriculture: Evidence from Bangladesh and Uganda
This paper discusses the challenges associated with implementing time-use surveys among agricultural households in developing countries and offers advice on best practices for two common measurement methods: stylized questions and time diaries.