Wheat is the second most important carbohydrate staple in Kenya and produced by both smallholder large-scale farmers. Smallholders are majority, but produce <20% of total national production. Compared to farmers, they have been considered be less efficient producers thus fail benefit fully from their participation wheat value chain. This study aims at establishing accruing farmers partic...

This critical review paper expands on the meaning of place. It opens a new narrative how geographic concept place is conceptualized in smallholder farmers and climate change adaptation literature Sub-Saharan Africa. The suggested that not only ‘where’ location but geographically connected interdependent to illustrate farmers’ experiences adapting shocks interact with global efforts such as impr...

This paper was prepared for a project on Globalisation and the International Governance of Modern Biotechnology, which is part of the Globalisation and Poverty programme, a three year programme of research, funded by the Department for International Development, exploring the linkages between globalisation processes and poverty. Executive Summary This paper reviews experiences in the United Sta...

Food insecurity remains high in most of sub-Saharan African. That insecurity is made even more acute by the increasing scarcity and degradation of natural resources. Low soil fertility is a consistent problem faced by agriculturalists and herders. The dominant international thrust to increase food production has been to stimulate trade, enhanced by technology and its transfer. While internation...

This paper presents an analysis of endogenous institutional innovations that have recently emerged in the agroindustrial zone of Chincha, on the coast of Peru. These innovations include: (1) contracts between agroindustrial firms and large farmers, introduced by the firms themselves to assure timely delivery and compliance with strict requirements implied by the emerging demanding quality and s...

This study was conducted to determine factors influencing the intensity of BRRI cultivar adoption in Aus season on farm households Jamalpur district. The data were collected through structured questionnaires from 200 randomly selected rice farmers three upazilas employed descriptive statistics and Tobit-censored regression adoption. In addition, ten FGDs expert panel interviews verify data. res...

Despite the resurgence of parastatal marketing boards and strategic grain reserves over the last decade in eastern and southern Africa, there is little empirical evidence about how their activities affect smallholder input use and cropping decisions. This paper uses panel survey data from 1997-2007 on Kenyan smallholders to investigate the effect of Kenya’s National Cereal Produce Board activit...

Oil palm production has led to large losses of valuable habitats for tropical biodiversity. Sparing of land for nature could in theory be attained if oil palm yields increased. The efficiency of oil palm smallholders is below its potential capacity, but the factors determining efficiency are poorly understood. We employed a two-stage data envelopment analysis approach to assess the influence of...

• Observe that land sales markets between large landlords and small peasants are thin/segmented because: 1. Land is overpriced for small buyers relative to value in use (borrowing capacity): the price of land internalizes tax advantages, expected speculative gains, wealth sheltering, social status effects, and collateral value. 2. Smallholders do not have access to long term credit. 3. Even if ...