This study investigates the driving factors that influence farmers’ decisions to adopt modern agricultural inputs (MAI) and how this affects farm household welfare in rural Rwanda. To account for heterogeneity in the MAI adoption decision and unobser...
The provision of agricultural extension services in South Africa has transitioned from state-funded systems to privatised models, raising questions about smallholder farmers’ willingness to pay for such services. This study employs a binary probit mo...
A major challenge for agriculture and future crop production is the deterioration in soil health and fertility. We have large areas of barren land across the globe with degraded soil which can only be made fertile by applying proper nutrition and soi...
The study analysed the utilization of climate information services (CIS) among crop farmers in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. The study adopted the multi-stage sampling procedure in the selection of respondents – 405 crop farmers – from the area. A questionn...
This study examines the challenges and opportunities in Nigeria’s agribusiness sector using qualitative methods, including 28 in-depth interviews, 4 focus group discussions, and 36 key informant interviews across four states. A SWOT analysis highligh...
Building up resilience in agricultural households has assumed a critical role in development strategies in recent years because, it is argued, the costs of strengthening resilience are less than the recurring expenditure for disaster assistance. Rely...
This paper evaluates the impact of variety awareness and nutrition knowledge on the adoption of biofortified crop varieties using a sample of 661 households from Kisii and Nyamira counties in Kenya. The study employs the average treatment effect (ATE...
Kenya has become a driving force of trade integration at the regional and continental level, albeit this process is still incomplete. Kenya was the first nation, along with Ghana, to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement i...
This paper investigates the interdependence of decisions on the adoption of agricultural technology and the simultaneous interaction between adoption and food security situations of smallholders, using a sample of 260 households from rural Ethiopia....
The push towards commercialization is driven by the modernization paradigm which argues that traditional subsistence farming is backward and primitive. Despite commercialization having the potential to enhance people’s livelihoods, it can also bring...
One of the primary development challenges hindering poverty reduction in Africa is the existence of a yield gap between female and male farmers. However, previous studies conducted in Ethiopia have largely overlooked the role of gender-related factor...
Fusarium wilt (Panama disease) caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) is of economic importance in Kenya. The disease is widespread and currently causing havoc to bananas in the main growing regions of Eastern and Central Kenya. There is n...