This study examines how smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions may influence their engagement in peer mobilization and collective action. Forty farmers were interviewed the Central Highlands region of Peru using a closed-ended instrument. The sample was achieved purposive snowball sampling methods. Quantitative data on attitudes aspirations regarding working with peers, autonomy, external supp...

This study analyses the role of Chile's Productive Alliance Programme (PAP) in increasing welfare and improving access to market for smallholder producers, by developing a sustainable agriculture both social environmental terms. programme started 2007 under Ministry Agriculture now serves 3,600 smallholders Chile. It seeks create commercial partnerships between these large companies, providing ...

Climate change is one of the hot topics this decade and seriously affects all economic production sectors including livestock farming sector. In many scenarios, Mediterranean region expected to experience unconventional severe climate that necessitates adopting effective strategies improve resilience sector, particularly for smallholders. Here, we performed a cross-sectional survey 277 smallhol...

Misalignment of quality incentives along value chains may limit and therefore function as a barrier to smallholder participation in modern chains. This article uses survey administrative data study how individual provided by private actors can help smallholders improve milk quality. By matching farmers on baseline characteristics, I find that increased the compositional quickly after its introd...

In recent years the appearance of private standards and codes of conduct has shaped the functioning of agri-food chains. These private standards, codes of conduct and quality metasystems are similar concepts that evolved as a response to food scares and the growing expectations of consumers about quality and other attributes. Large retailers and supermarket chains have developed private standar...

Abstract In the eastern rainforests of Madagascar, rainfed swidden rice cultivation remains prevalent despite efforts to encourage uptake irrigated systems reduce deforestation. We used agricultural surveys with a stratified sample 171 households investigate constraints on and productivity perceived by farmers, actual yields. Irrigated plots had higher median yields (1.72 t/ha compared 0.62 t/h...

This paper focuses on the potential role of policy in influencing the poverty and land degradation problems facing Africa. This is done through exploring a few case studies, chosen from a broad spectrum of African countries — Sudan, Malawi, Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya. The first case study examines the comparative returns to the gum arabic agroforestry system cultivated by poor farmers in Northern...

The South African Government has for the past two decades spent significant resources on introducing smallholders to Genetically Modified (GM) maize with aim make agriculture a way out of poverty. However smallholder farming continues decline and poverty is rise in country. present paper aims explain this failure government support its by describing intra-actions between maize, politics technol...

There are normative issues related to the concept of commodity goods with object warehouse receipts and social regarding benefits for grain or rice farmers. Therefore, it is necessary evaluate regulation receipt system so that has a unique contribution small The research applied in this juridical-empirical qualitative approach. fact shows farmers do not want use Warehouse Receipt System (WRS) b...