South African smallholders are abandoning farming. The decline in field cultivation is a problem, since many of these smallholder households struggle to make ends meet. If people were able to produce ...

One Acre Fund, a non-for-profit development organisation that supports smallholder farmers in Nigeria by providing them with access to high quality agricultural inputs, training and financing, will ...

The decision is an important step towards regulating the practice of plant production in small-scale farms and achieving sustainable agricultural development ...

This results in increased labour-intensive work for smallholder farmers. Smallholder farmers are the backbone of local rice production in Ghana. They produce more than 50% of the total.

The Chameleon water soil water sensor, developed by Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, appears to be popular among smallholder farmers in developing countries.

The mid-term review of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)-led Asian Chicken Genetics Gains (AsCGG) project has shown it has ...

Less likely to adopt preventative cultural measures The scientists sought to assess the effects of FISPs on smallholder ...

Richard Ahedor Seshie, founder of social enterprise COOL LION, explains that post-harvest food losses among smallholder farmers in Africa amount to$4 billion annually in Sub-Saharan Africa alone ...

Since 2015, Pula, an insurtech based in Kenya, has been keen on enhancing the access to agricultural insurance by small-holder farmers across emerging markets, shielding them against losses from ...

Heifer International and the Alliance of Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT ...

The South African government has failed to reverse the decline in smallholder farming that began during apartheid. A ...