A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

household food security remains a challenge in south africa. the national government instituted the integrated food security strategy (ifss) programme which identifies household agricultural production as an important element of improving household-level food security. agricultural extension is well positioned to help achieve this aim, but its current contribution is unknown. this study identif...

Background: Achievement of food security has become one of the major challenges of most developing countries, including Zimbabwe. This study was designed to investigate the effect of agricultural commercialization on household food security. Methods: This study used cross-sectional data for the 2017/18 farming season collected from 165 smallholder farmer households in Zhombe north rural distric...

This paper offers a synthesis of agricultural household modeling, its evolution and uses; presents a general yet simple agricultural household model, estimated with Mexican village data and programmed using General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS) software; and uses this model to explore household-level impacts of agricultural policy changes on production and incomes under alternative rural-mar...

a simmering crisis in the nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. one of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...