This paper reviews and interprets changes in rural livelihoods in southern Malawi following market liberalisation. It argues that, by reducing household maize production, market liberalisation has increased the need for resourcepoor smallholders to develop market strategies that provide them with income security. Whereas previous scenarios for poverty elimination in Malawi were based either on ...

Abstract The involvement of smallholders in various inclusive business models (IBMs) is being widely promoted Ethiopia. inclusion, exclusion and distribution effects IBMs must be better understood, however, order to make them more impactful. This study, which was carried out three districts northern Ethiopia, employed a mixed methods approach. Our results show that inclusion are both complex mu...

This study contributes to the growing interest in hybrid organisations, sustainable business models and inclusive value chain development (IVCD). Recent work has identified that of some 570 million farmers world, more than 475 are smallholders low-middle-income countries experiencing increasing food insecurity rural poverty. Research argues there is a lack research provides on appropriate solut...

Terdapat jurang dari aspek kebolehjejakan transaksi Buah Tandan Segar (BTS) pada peringkat rantaian bekalan di kalangan peniaga buah sawit (DF) yang menerima daripada pekebun kecil persendirian (PKP) dan ladang kecil. Satu sistem efektif DF mampu mengurangkan ini agar keseluruhan minyak dapat dijejaki dengan lebih menyeluruh. Kajian bertujuan mengenalpasti kadar kebolehan serta kelengkapan pela...

This paper set out to show the impacts of COVID-19 and climate change on smallholders through lens Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ways keep 2030 agenda. Descriptive statistical analysis quantitative secondary data is applied investigate issues in question across world regions. Increasing energy food demand have triggered greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with effects environment, socio-econo...

The expansion of oil palm plantation has caused adverse impacts on the ecosystem. It been associated with deforestation, biodiversity loss, disturbances to environmental services and livelihood change. government Indonesia made an effort control negative effects by issuing relevant policies. One policies is Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO)’s sustainability standards which large-scale plan...

Since the paper by Giller et al. (2009), the debate surrounding the suitability of conservation agriculture (CA) for African smallholders has remained polarized between proponents and opponents. The debate also gave rise to a few studies that attempted to identify the “niche” where CA would fit in the region, but the insight offered by these studies has been limited. In this paper, we first ana...

Through different policies and measures reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation and enhancing conservation (REDD+) has grown into a way to induce behavior change of forest managers and landowners in tropical countries. We argue that debates around REDD+ in Brazil have typically highlighted rewards and punishments, obscuring other core interventions and strategies that are also cri...

With an example from Rwanda, we ask how the State's policy strategy and attempts to construct "ideal agricultural subjects" resonate with actual changes experienced by farmers themselves. We present three different empirical examples show that a) when opportunities transformation initially arise, only wealthiest can capture them, even then government is seen as main beneficiary; b) some priorit...

There is an increasing application of technology in the agriculture industry as more innovative inventions become available. The Malaysian government, through MPOB, renders assistance to oil palm smallholders adoption suitable modern while providing them technical advisory services either directly or indirectly. Nonetheless, question remains whether such has achieved its objective smallholder p...