The lack of young people engaged in agriculture threatens future food security and social
balance. The agricultural sector and rural areas are experiencing an aging demography …

How to stimulate technological change to enhance agricultural productivity and reduce
poverty remains an area of vigorous debate. In the face of heterogeneity among farm …

Over recent decades international agricultural research has shown that it can generate
agricultural technologies with benefits for societies in the Global South that outstrip the …

Rural communities often struggle to adapt to societal and economic changes, but their
cultural heritage can play a pivotal role in tourism development and establishing …

Despite substantial growth in global agricultural production, food and nutritional insecurity is
rising in Sub-Saharan Africa. Identification of underutilised indigenous crops with useful food …

The world is adjusting to regain control over direct economic impacts of the COVID-19
pandemic. This adjustment is occurring whilst global collective action is also gearing up to …

A recent study found that adoption rates of improved chickpea varieties were above 90 per
cent in Andhra Pradesh, India. In this paper, we use a novel perspective to reconstruct and …

Young people in southern Africa have limited opportunities for productive employment. This
research adds to the literature on young people living around smallholder irrigation …

In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue “Rural aspirations—Livelihood decisions
and rural development trajectories”, we outline current views on aspirations and their …

Implications The broad synthesis outlined above suggests that it is now time to re-consider
the framings, narratives and evidence that underpin policy, as well as policy content. In this …