The slow adoption of new agricultural technologies is an important factor in explaining persistent productivity deficits among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Farmers delay in particular the uptake of technology packages.
The slow adoption of new agricultural technologies is an important factor in explaining persistent productivity deficits among smallholders in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Farmers delay in particular the uptake of technology packages.
Postharvest loss exacerbates the food insecurity and welfare loss of farming households in developing countries.
The latest turmoil of production and price volatility in the global food sector has put agriculture back to the top of the development agenda.
Nutrition and Agriculture are interlinked with each other.
The use of technology in agriculture plays an important role in the production chain cycle, as well as in the improvement of processes and productivity.
The agro-ecosystem is a system composed of population, natural resources and economic activities related in a dynamic interaction in terms of socio-ecological and socio-economic relations conditioned by endogenous and exogenous factors. With time, the agro-ecosystem undergoes changes.
This study assessed the capacity for designing and implementing agricultural and rural development policies, strategies, and programs in Nigeria.
The findings of a Nigerian case study discussed in this paper indicate that the notion of wives of leisure is really not applicable to most women in Nigeria, as women have always worked. Even those in purdah engage in income generating activities within the confines of the compound.
This study was undertaken to assess the utility of remotely sensed net primary productivity (NPP) data to measure agricultural sustainability by applying a new methodology that captures spatial variability and trends in total NPP and in NPP removed at harvest.
There are divergent views on what capacity development might mean in relation to agricultural biotechnology.
Science and technology (S&T) are major contributors to food security, poverty reduction, and economic growth, as has been proven in Asia since the early-1970s through the Green Revolution in agriculture.