Food systems face new climatic and socioecological challenges and farmers need a
diversity of new plant varieties to respond to these. While plant breeding is important …

Agriculture in China has been smallholder based. Tempted by a large food demand,
smallholders have been using excessive fertilizer to obtain high yields. This type of …

Sustainably feeding a growing population is a grand challenge,,, and one that is particularly
difficult in regions that are dominated by smallholder farming. Despite local successes …

China purchases around 66% of the soy that is traded internationally. This strains the global
food supply and contributes to greenhouse gas emissions. Here we show that optimizing the …

This paper explores smallholder farmers' adoption decisions of multiple sustainable
intensification practices (SIPs) in eastern and southern Africa. We develop a multivariate …

Maize is one of the most important food crops in the world and, together with rice and wheat,
provides at least 30% of the food calories to more than 4.5 billion people in 94 developing …

Using cross-sectional data and a propensity score matching technique, this paper
investigates the impact of cooperatives on adoption of agricultural technologies. Our …

Farmer cooperatives may promote technology adoption in agricultural production, which, in
turn, increases crop productivity and farmers' income. However, empirical evidence of how …

Despite significant efforts, Africa has struggled to imitate the rapid agricultural growth that
took place in Asia in the 1960s and 1970s. As a rare but important exception, Ethiopia's …

We analyse the impact of improved chickpea adoption on welfare in Ethiopia using three
rounds of panel data. First, we estimate the determinants of improved chickpea adoption …