Farmers' help

Bridging the Gap: Do Farmers’ Markets Help Alleviate Impacts of Food Deserts? Final Report

Executive Summary Background and Methodology Pressures of the globalized food system have left communities and individuals in precarious situations in which nutritious and accessible food is not a given; research has begun to suggest that relocalization efforts will not necessarily alleviate these trends without directed efforts to produce exchanges that enhance both food and farm security. Exi...

Can micro-finance help small farmers in developing countries improve their livelihoods? A Systematic Review

1 Why have Green Revolutions so often failed to help peasant - farmers ?

This paper emerges from a book I am writing entitled ‘Europe’s Green Revolution: the Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant-Breeding, 1890-1945’. For the most part it concentrates upon the emergence in Central Europe during the 1890s of a movement which aimed to bring the advantages of modern plant-breeding to smallholders, the work of the state plant-breeding stations which were founded as a ...

How Diversified Farming Systems Can Help Farmers While Protecting Soil and Preventing Pollution

Are Organic Farmers Really Better Off Than Conventional Farmers?

We employed the propensity score matching and estimated the causal effect of being certified organic crop producers on farm household income and its various components in the United States. Contrary to the standard assumption in economic analysis, certified organic farmers do not earn significantly higher household income than conventional farmers. Certified organic crop producers earn higher r...