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This paper is motivated by the hypothesis that the nature of the tenurial contract is sensitive to the tenant’s privately known level of farming skill. In particular, tenants with ‘low’ skill levels work for wage contracts, those with ‘high’ skill levels work for rent contracts, and tenants whose skill levels lie in between these extremes work for share contracts. We study a principal-agent typ...

The growing demand for high-value food commodities is opening up opportunities for farmers, especially smallholders to diversify towards commodities that have strong potential for higher returns to land, labour and capital. However, there is an apprehension about the capability of smallholder farmers to participate in the market-oriented production due to their lack of access to markets, capita...

Development of alternative livelihoods has become a popular policy to uplift the socioeconomic status of small-scale fishers and to reduce fishing pressure on overexploited fisheries. Seaweed farming has been incorporated into many community-based coastal resources management projects and fisheries management initiatives as an alternative livelihood option for fishers in tropical developing cou...