Purpose. The study identifies and assesses the factors that influence potato farmers in Jambi Province, Indonesia, choosing agricultural store financing over other sources evaluates the causal effects of this financing on income and productivity, com...
A 56-day study investigated the effects of Zymomonas mobilis treated sawdust on growth and economics of broiler chickens. Three hundred and seventy-five (375) day old unsexed marshal broiler chicks were allotted to five dietary treatments with 75 br...
Rural households in sub-Saharan Africa face many risks and are therefore often vulnerable to poverty. Income diversification has been proposed as a potentially effective strategy to mitigate their risks. This paper explores how portfolio decisions of...
The conditions in which increased market participation leads to improved technical efficiency are still not adequately understood. This study therefore investigated farmers’ market participation rates and their predicted technical efficiency scores b...
The FAO Regional Office for Africa (RAF) organized a Lessons Learning and Knowledge Sharing Workshop on Resilience Building in November 2024 in Uganda. The workshop aimed to enhance FAO’s resilience programming by leveraging quantitative and qualitat...
Index-based insurance has emerged as a compelling strategy for agricultural risk management in Africa, particularly in contexts where smallholder farmers are disproportionately exposed to climate-related hazards. Despite its potential, the effectiven...
This article analyzes the effects of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) on multidimensional poverty in Burkina Faso. It is based on primary data collected from 384 randomly selected households. A multidimensional poverty index was constructed as the...
A partial equilibrium model was used to estimate the impact of a free trade agreement within ECOWAS on imports by Nigeria, based on trade data prior to implementation in 2015. Estimated trade creation for agro-processed goods was just more than doubl...
This study examines the complementarity and substitutability effect of private investment and public expenditure on agricultural productivity in Nigeria for the period 1978 to 2018. The study employs the vector error correction modelling (VECM) techn...
Recognising potential selection bias due to non-randomness of the data, this study used propensity score matching on data from a nationally representative fifth Integrated Household Survey (IHS5) to investigate the effect of agriculture extension ser...
There is an emerging body of studies assessing the influence of resilience on household food security in developing countries. Yet no study has systematically analysed this theme in Zimbabwe, an area that we address. Data was collected from 331 rando...
This study investigates how public agricultural expenditure can mitigate the effect of climate variability on banks’ agricultural credit supply in sub-Saharan Africa. Data was collected from 23 countries over the period 2006 to 2021 and analysed with...