Agricultural extension services play an important role in agricultural development.
Credit allows borrowers to access funds required to make an investment before returns materialize.
Smallholder farmers in low- and medium-income countries lack sufficient access to agricultural production credit that can help them adopt new technologies and improve their farm production.
Changes in frequency and intensity of climate and weather events are a key challenge to agricultural production among farmers in Zambia.
Climate change represents a major challenge to food systems.
Limited access to reliable financial instruments makes it difficult for rural households to manage daily cash flows. Selling goods through cooperatives can improve savings, but cooperative income is not easily accessible when facing an emergency.
Key Messages:
Agricultural credit is an important instrument for improving farm productivity, the welfare of farm households, and their resilience to weather-related shocks.
The objective of this report is to present results from the baseline survey conducted as part of the Implementer-Led Evaluation and Learning (IMPEL) evaluation of SPIR II, a randomized controlled trial launched in 2022.
Introducing small-scale irrigation can bring opportunities for empowerment and exclusion. To support equity and inclusion, projects must go beyond technology access alone.
This dataset is a follow-up for households who were visited during Feed the Future I (FtF) Ethiopia end-line Survey 2018 and who participated in land rental market in Tigray and Amhara regions.
Farming is an inherently high-risk activity, and farmers’ livelihoods depend on a set of interlinked environmental factors including weather, soil conditions, disease, pests, and more.
The midstream of agricultural value chains are rapidly changing in response to shifting domestic and international demand.
The agricultural sector in developing countries like Nigeria is characterized by low productivity, driven partly by low use of modern agricultural technologies. Poor access to credit is seen as a key barrier to adoption of these technologies.
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.