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Agricultural Technology, Food Security and Nutrition: Insight From Oil Palm Smallholders in Ghana
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-12-01)The use of agricultural technologies has facilitated gains from agricultural commercialisation for smallholder farmers in Africa. Practices that involve these technologies play an important role in tackling poverty and ... -
Determinants of Farmer’s Decision to Transit to Medium/larger Farm Through Expansion of Land Area Under Commercial Tree Crop Plantation in Nigeria
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-10-08)Decision-making is central to farm management. This study assesses key factors influencing land allocation decisions of households with respects to tree crop cultivation in Nigeria. The study uses primary data collected ... -
The Farm Size-Productivity Relationship: Evidence From Panel Data Analysis of Small- and Medium-Scale Farms in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-09-01)The finding that smaller farms are more productive than larger farms has long been documented. At present, evidence in the Sub-Saharan African (SSA) region has been largely limited to data from farms operating 5ha and ... -
Determinants of Smallholder Farmers’ Livelihood Trajectories. Evidence From Rural Malawi
(Agricultural Economics Association of South Africa, 2022-08-24)This paper examines the determinants of livelihood trajectories of households surveyed in rural Malawi in 2007 that were tracked in 2018. Using a set of indicators, including income source diversification and participation ... -
Informing the Debate on the Rise of Medium-Scale Farmers in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-07-01)This case study explores how APRA evidence is informing an emerging debate on medium-scale farmers (MSFs) through stronger empirical evidence of the broad variation across different contexts. This research has generated ... -
ALRE Report on Evidence Demand on Inclusive Agricultural Commercialisation in Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme has generated new evidence and insights into different pathways to inclusive agricultural commercialisation. As part of APRA, the Accompanied Learning on Relevance ... -
Lessons Learnt From Delivering the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme was a six-year (2016–2022), £7 million research initiative of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), to produce high-quality evidence to inform policy and ... -
Does Women’s Engagement in Sunflower Commercialization Empower Them? Experience From Singida region, Tanzania
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2022-05-26)Empowering women within sunflower value chains can create significant development opportunities for them and generate benefits for their families. This paper asks whether women’s engagement in sunflower commercialization ... -
Rice: APRA’s Contribution to Informing and Influencing Policy Debates Around Rice in East Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Rice production across Africa varies in many aspects due to socio-political, climatic, and environmental differences in the region. The research and outreach activities of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) ... -
Accompanied Learning: Reflections on How ALRE Enhanced APRA’s Relevance and Effectiveness
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)This case study explores the claim that the Accompanied Learning for Relevance and Effectiveness (ALRE) approach contributed to stronger relevance and effectiveness of the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) ... -
Raising the Profile of Agricultural Policy Research: National Engagement as a Pathway to Change
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Throughout the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium, country research teams were encouraged to engage at district and national levels. Towards the end of APRA, during ... -
Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation: Implications for Livelihood Improvements Among Small-Scale Farmers in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Research in several African countries shows the rapid rise of a medium-scale farming (MSF) sector. While national development policy strategies within the region officially regard the smallholder farming sector as an ... -
Livelihood Outcomes of Agricultural Commercialisation, Women's Empowerment and Rural Employment
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Across Ghana, mixed-crop-livestock enterprises dominate the farming systems with most farmers producing both food staples and non-food cash crops. However, this paper focuses mainly on oil palm-producing farmers because ... -
Effects of Commercialisation on Seasonal Hunger: Evidence from Smallholder Resettlement Areas, Mazowe District, Zimbabwe
(APRA. Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-05-01)Agricultural transformation towards intensive commercial production is a key facet of current development strategies pursued by African governments, aimed at improving welfare outcomes of farm households. However, in ... -
Choice of Tillage Technologies and Impact on Paddy Yield and Food Security in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)This paper analyses choice of alternative tillage technology options and their impact on paddy yield and food security in Kilombero valley of Morogoro Region, Tanzania. The results show that the choice of any tillage ... -
Livestock, Crop Commercialization and Poverty Reduction in Crop-Livestock Farming Systems in Singida Region, Tanzania
(International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), 2022-04-30)Livestock is an important component of crop-livestock farming systems in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper examined the effect of livestock on crop commercialization and poverty reduction among smallholder farmers in ... -
COVID-19: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding the Effects in Rural Africa
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 initiated a remarkable pivot within APRA in which a new COVID focussed research programme was rapidly designed, approved and launched. The first APRA COVID-19 blogs appeared ... -
African Media Coverage: APRA’s Contribution to Understanding of Agricultural Change
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)The Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) programme made significant efforts to engage with the local/national media as a way of disseminating research findings and consequent policy implications. This was assisted ... -
Agricultural Commercialisation, Gender Relations and Women Empowerment in Smallholder Farm Households: Evidence from Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Agricultural commercialisation has been identified as an important part of the structural transformation process, as the economy grows from subsistence to highly commercialised entities that rely on the market for both ... -
Impact of Commercialisation Pathways on Income and Asset Accumulation: Evidence from Smallholder Farming in Zimbabwe
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2022-04-01)Smallholder agricultural commercialisation has been seen as an important pathway out of rural poverty in developing countries. However, little empirical evidence is available in sub-Saharan Africa that examines the ...
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