This article examines the effect of remittance income on deforestation in Nepal during 2001–2010 using satellite-based land use data and a nationwide household survey.

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.

Smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa is largely exposed to pervasive market failures, translating into missed opportunities and sub-optimal economic behavior.

This study analyzed the impact of adoption of artificial pollination on productivity, income, poverty and food security among cocoa farmers in Ghana.

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the midstream (processors, wholesalers and wholesale markets, and logistics) segments of transforming value chains have proliferated rapidly over the past several decades in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

Storage is an important aspect of food security in developing countries. Therefore, it is crucial for farmers to have access to sustainable storage technologies to cope with storage losses.

Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a continued focus on food production.

Scholarship on African land markets has proliferated in recent years. We contend that this scholarship consists of distinct literatures that examine non-overlapping parts of the system and diverge in their conclusions.

A well-measured experiment of multiple yield estimation methods on 237 smallholder maize plots on farms in the Amhara region, Ethiopia.

The past decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the role of mechanization in agricultural development.

A relatively large body of literature has documented the welfare effects of smallholder farmers’ participation in single-commodity output markets.

Extreme weather events cause considerable damage to the livelihoods of smallholder farmers globally.