Maize (Zea mays L.) is one of the commonly grown grain crops and remains a source of
staple food and food security for most countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). But climate …

China's agricultural sector experienced rapid growth in the last two decades, with a tripled
increase in sectorally total economic output from 2000 to 2017. However, expanding large …

Binding resource constraints in many low-and middle-income countries aggravate food
insecurity risk in the face of climate change. To help mitigate such risk and increase food …

Vegetables are important for maintenance of good health; their production and marketing
are veritable sources of employment and livelihood. To promote vegetables' contribution to …

The traditional approach to modeling productive efficiency assumes that technology is
constant across the sample. However, farms in different regions may face different …

The cropland productivity gap between Africa and the rest of the world is widening.
Fortunately, increasing farmers' access to useful agricultural information reduces the costs of …

Malawi experiences frequent and intense extreme weather events that affect rain-fed
household maize production. Thus, households have adopted various climate-smart …

Crop diversification is a climate-smart agricultural technique which helps to improve
resilience for farmers in the face of volatile weather due to climate change. Previous …

Palm oils have been proven to have the highest yield among vegetable oils, which is one of
the critical factors in ensuring global food security. However, the world palm oil market has …

This study investigated the effect of credit constraints and credit unconstraints on the
technical efficiency of hybrid maize growers in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province (KPK) of …