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South Africa’s land reform programme is designed for a socio-economic context that doesn’t exist.
Small-scale farmers find it difficult to commercialise and add value to the food chain.
Improving the diets of livestock in Africa provides a rapid pathway to increasing nutrition for people.
Ensuring the participation of ordinary citizens and producers in the industry is the big challenge facing African states.
Stricter measures had major impacts on farmers’ livelihoods and food security.
The industry is in the hands of smallholder farmers who struggle to raise capital and practise good farming.
Hardline positions could narrow the options available to farmers and conservation practitioners in a way that can be harmful to both.
A new study faults a well-established concept that informs land-use policies in developing countries.
Smallholder rice farmers in Ghana should be supported by the government to access finance needed to adopt modern technologies for greater productivity.
For decades Somalia has been in a near-constant state of food insecurity. This is due to a combination of stagnant crop production, a rapidly increasing population and political unrest.
By looking at the evolving history of the open government data movement, scientists can see both limitations to current approaches and identify ways to move forward from them.
Attempts to formalise charcoal production have been largely unsuccessful.
The new initiative reproduces the core weaknesses of post-apartheid state land and agricultural policy. These have done little to improve the livelihoods of the poor.
We highlight the distressing rise in the prices of essential food products. We call for the urgent expansion of price controls, as well as an inquiry into the price-setting of major retailers.
And why development funders should listen to smallholder farmers
Understanding rural household aspirations and taking them seriously in development planning could offer great potential in shaping the future of rural spaces.
Changing weather modifies insect traits and can have an impact on their food, natural enemies and predators.
Smallholder farming might not be able to generate enough value on its own, but farmers still need support.
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Over the past two decades digitisation has steadily transformed African farming.
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Senior Lecturer at Oyo State College of Agriculture and Technology, Igboora, Nigeria and Extraordinary Senior Lecturer at Indigenous Knowledge Systems Centre, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa, North-West University
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Senior Economist, Center for International Forestry Research – World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF)
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Academic and agricultural scientist, Adelaide University
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PHD Student, Geography, Environment and Geomatics/Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph
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Ass. Professor, University of Maryland Eastern Shore; North-West University
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DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geography, Director of Food, Agriculture & Society Program, Macalester College
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Honorary Lecturer, Bangor University
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PhD Candidate, Geography, Environment & Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow, Tegemeo Institute, Egerton University
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Director of the Arrell Food Institute and Professor in the Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics, University of Guelph
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Agricultural Innovation Scientist, Adelaide University
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MSU Foundation Professor, Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University
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Associate Professor, Department of Entomology; African-American Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Research Program Manager for the Cropping Systems and Economics (CSE) program, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research
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Visiting professor, Strathmore University