Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a
continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs to sustainably produce …

The creation of commercialization opportunities for smallholder farmers has taken primacy
on the development agenda of many developing countries. Invariably, most of the …

Most food in sub-Saharan Africa is produced on small farms. Using large datasets from
household surveys conducted across many countries, we find that the majority of farms are …

Following a precise evaluation protocol that was applied to a pool of 202 articles published
between 2003 and 2014, this paper evaluates the existing evidence of how and to what …

Today's food and farming systems have succeeded in supplying large volumes of foods to
global markets, but are generating negative outcomes on multiple fronts: widespread …

Despite progress, multiple burdens of malnutrition persist worldwide: 795 million people are
hungry more than 2 billion people suffer from micronutrient deficiencies and over 2 billion …

The contributions to this collection use the tools of agrarian political economy to explore the
rapid growth and complex dynamics of large-scale land deals in recent years, with a special …

Whether or not investments in African agriculture can generate quality employment at scale,
avoid dispossessing local people of their land, promote diversified and sustainable …

The opportunity for smallholders to raise their incomes increasingly depends on their ability
to compete in the market; yet there are many failures in rural markets in developing countries …

This paper uses small-scale farm survey data from five countries of eastern and southern
Africa to highlight four under-appreciated issues:(i) how land distribution patterns constrain …