Traditional African vegetables (TAVs) are an important component of an ecologically
sustainable approach to addressing food and nutrition security in Africa. This review aims to …

Tomato is one of the major vegetables in Bangladesh that experienced massive productivity
growth after independence. Nevertheless, farmers are struggling to find out optimal input …

The study analyzes the technical efficiency of vegetable farmers in root and tuber-based
farming systems within selected sites of the humid tropics of Cameroon. Multistage sampling …

Increasing consumer affluence and concerns over food safety have led to a reemergence of
consumers' appetite for organic food as a way of achieving nutritional security. This research …

Urbanisation and water scarcity pose a challenge to urban vegetable production and
livelihoods in major cities across the world. At the same time, increasing demand for fresh …

This study analyzes the spontaneous impact of human, social and natural capital on food
crop technical efficiency (TE) in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Our study contributes to the …

Purpose The goal of this work is to analyse the environmental impacts across the productive
continuum of market gardening in southern Benin, to determine whether significant …

This chapter covers the origin of insects from an evolutionary perspective and their
adaptation to millennia changes in climate, flora, and fauna in addition to special adaptation …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the efficiency of vegetable farmers within
the tree-crop based rainforest agro-ecological zone in Southwest region of Cameroon …

Differences in technical efficiency across farms are one of the major factors explaining
differences in farm survival and growth and changes in farm industry structure. This study …