...Kirt Hainzer; Catherine O'Mullan; Philip Hugh Brown Purpose Agricultural extension has played a central role in building the capacity of smallholders for decades. In efforts to improve extension outcomes, demand-driven approaches have emerged to better align extension content with smallholder...

...Ujjwal Kanti Paul; Gurudas Das; Malabika Das; Tanuj Mathur Purpose The existing literature on linking growers directly with the market mostly overlooks the case of smallholders. They grow commercial–perishable crops and have to rely on the efficacy of the marketing system. The present paper...

...Bartholemew Kenner; Dayton M. Lambert; Carlos Omar Trejo-Pech; Jada M. Thompson; Thomas Gill Purpose The purpose of this paper is to determine the stochastic net present value (NPV) of a model smallholder poultry operation in Rwanda under production and market uncertainty. Design/methodology...

... Government’s Household Income and Expenditure Survey (HIES) data sets HIES 2005 and HIES 2010, and applying the seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) estimation process, the purpose of this paper is to examine paddy rice marketing, and the cereal and non-cereal food expenditure behavior of rural smallholders...

...Mercy Maiwa Mwambi; Judith Oduol; Patience Mshenga; Mwanarusi Saidi Purpose – Contract farming (CF) is seen as a tool for creating new market opportunities hence increasing incomes for smallholder farmers. Critics, however, argue that CF is likely to pass risks to small scale farmers, thus...