Food security and dietary quality are broadly supported development goals, yet few studies
have addressed how agricultural subsidy policies and promotion of modern crop varieties …

Abstract Many sub-Saharan African countries implementing agricultural input subsidies
programmes (AISP) concentrate on fertilizers and staple food crops which may have little or …

Background Maize is the most important staple crop for food security and livelihood of
smallholder farmers in many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, but it alone cannot ensure food …

Following a decade of declining food insecurity, the global undernourished population has
increased successively in the last three years. This increasing trend highlights the challenge …

Farm production diversity has the potential to influence the diversity of household diets, an
important nutrition outcome associated with the nutrient adequacy of diets and the nutritional …

Background This paper concerns the role of crop diversification in improving household food
security in central Malawi. In this country, the agricultural sector is dominated by smallholder …

With only 10 years before the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Zero Hunger, the
global community is in a race to address mounting food and nutrition insecurity among the …

Micro-and macroeconomic evidence suggest that the promotion of agricultural diversification
in agriculture-based developing countries is beneficial. At the microeconomic level …

Rural Malawians face various categories of food insecurity, both short-term (transitory or
seasonal) and long-term (chronic). An estimated 30% of the rural population live below the …

We examined factors driving farm households to diversify their crop production, using panel
data from two waves of nationally representative surveys of rural farm households in …