We present an overview of the literature on agri-food value chains in low-and middle-income
countries. Starting from farmers' decision of whether to move away from subsistence …

Overuse of chemical fertilizer has led to severe land degradation and environmental
pollution in China. Switching to organic fertilizer may improve soil quality and reduce …

This article briefly describes the Soninke labor migration, understood as a means of
diversifying risk in a context of missing insurance and credit markets. Historical and …

This study examines the impacts of participation in off‐farm work and land tenancy contracts
on the intensity of investment in soil‐improving measures and farm productivity. A …

Agricultural productivity is particularly low in developing countries. Output-sharing rules that
make farmers less-than-full residual claimants are seen as a potentially important driver of …

The current study aims to investigate the agricultural investment differences among three
kinds of land lease agreements and their effect on farmers' decisions regarding sustainable …

This paper examines the Marshallian inefficiency hypothesis of share tenancy system in
agriculture of Odisha, Eastern India. It examines the hypothesis from a different perspective …

Though sharecropping remains widespread, its determinants are still poorly understood and
the debate over the extent of moral hazard is far from settled. We address both issues by …

Using a unique tenant–landlord matched dataset from the Tigray region of Ethiopia, we are
able to show how the tenants' strategic response to the varying economic and tenure …

Most studies of tenurial insecurity focus on its effects on investment. This paper studies the
hitherto unexplored relationship between tenurial insecurity and land tenancy contracts …