Sustainable coffee production is significantly threatened by climate change. While implementing CSA practices offers numerous benefits, adoption rates remain low. Coffee plantations are dominated smallholders and located in rural areas, making them more complex requiring a comprehensive analysis intervention. This study used an exploratory approach to assess farmers’ preferences for practices, ...

This article explores whether mechanisation affects patterns of accumulation and differentiation in Zimbabwe's post land reform where policy consistently disadvantages smallholders. Is the latest wave any different? The considers dynamics tractor access trajectories across within use types Mvurwi area. Larger, richer well-connected farmers draw on patronage networks to tractors accumulate furth...

How does agricultural insurance affect the modernization of farming in low income countries? We focus on institutional contexts without formal contract enforcement, where smallholders cannot access modern inputs via markets. Instead, farmers can engage relational contracting with traders to sell their crop and gain (as an advance in-kind payment). Although conventional theory assumes that “crow...

The growth of ethical consumerism in developed countries has led to increased imports of environmentally and socially certified products produced by the poor in developing countries, which could potentially contribute towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Among these, organic products and fair-trade products are among the rapidly growing “ethical trade” products. T...

South Africa has adopted an ambitious new water legislation that promotes equity, sustainability, representativity and economic performance through water management decentralization, new local and regional management institutions, water users’ licensing, and the possible emergence of water rights’ markets. This paper addresses the diversity of water users and uses that currently exists in rural...

Giant? The Potentials and the Pitfalls1 In 2009 the World Bank published a report entitled Awakening Africa’s Sleeping Giant: Prospects for Commercial Agriculture in the Guinea Savannah Zone and Beyond. The report highlights the agricultural potential of Africa’s Guinea Savannah (henceforth GS) zone, which it describes as “one of the largest underused agricultural land reserves in the world” (p...

Abstract The intensifying impacts of climate change pose a serious global threat, particularly for rural populations whose livelihoods are closely tied to natural resources. Yet there is lack critical understanding how asymmetric power dynamics shape the vulnerabilities such under change. This article examines interrelations between smallholders’ climate-related vulnerability experiences and re...

Climate change and the consequent increase in incidence of drought flood will remain a major threat to smallholders. Hence, it is crucial adopt an appropriate adaptation strategy overcome this farmers’ income. Because seed primary input, adoption stress-tolerant rice varieties potential mitigation combat climate risks. In context, present study carried out among paddy farmers flood-prone region...

Abstract Adapting agricultural systems to changes in seasonal precipitation is critical for the sector Sri Lanka. This paper presents evidence on adoption drivers and welfare impacts of strategies adopted by Lankan rice farmers adapt low rainfall conditions. We estimate causal impact adopting different adaptive across three dimensions: (a) sensitivity water stress, (b) household productivity, (...

This research was conducted at the Sawit Jaya Cooperative in Benteng Hulu Village, Mempura District, Siak Regency. The purpose of this is to find out what social characteristics oil palm smallholders are, economics implementing governance by and how it applies between smallholder versus RSPO standard governance. population independent who use quantitative qualitative analysis. Measurement imple...