Agricultural production systems are a composite of philosophy, adoptability, and careful
analysis of risks and rewards. The two dominant typologies include conventional and …

Multiple production and marketing challenges facing smallholder farmers in developing
countries have resulted in renewed interests of governments, donor agencies and private …

Climate change is likely to worsen poverty, and agriculture-dependent groups and poorest
countries are at the greatest risk. Farmers' have begun developing and implementing …

Thomas Sterner's book is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of
economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of …

Using household survey data from Ethiopia, this paper evaluates the impact of agricultural
cooperatives on smallholders' technical efficiency. We used propensity score matching to …

This study aims to investigate the impact of Internet use on technical efficiency in apple
production in China using a unique cross-sectional dataset covering 479 apple-producing …

The formation of agricultural cooperatives has been widely promoted as an agricultural
development policy initiative to help smallholder farmers cope with multiple production and …

We explore the relationship between precision agriculture (PA) technology adoption and
technical efficiency using the 2016 USDA Agricultural Resource Management Survey …

This article summarizes the literature on efficiency and productivity of organic farming. We
distinguish between studies that concentrate on specific problems of the organic sector and …

Using cross‐sectional farm‐level data from 3,164 rice‐farming households in the
Philippines, we measure the impact of modern rice technologies on farm productivity while …