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   The impact of smallholder farmers’ participation in avocado export markets on the labor market, farm yields, sales prices, and incomes in Kenya

   Land Use Policy Volume 88

   Peer-reviewed publication

   November, 2019

   Kenya

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   farmers

   land use

   research

   Smallholder producers in sub-Saharan Africa are often unable integrate into markets and access high-value opportunities by effectively participating in global chains for high-value fresh produce. Using data from a survey of large avocado farmers in Kenya, this study examines the determinants and impacts of smallholder-producer participation in avocado export markets on labor inputs, farm yields, sales prices, and incomes, using a switching regression framework to control for selection effects.

2. Library Resource

   

   Farmers Willingness to Participate In Voluntary Land Consolidation in Gozamin District, Ethiopia

   Volume 8 Issue 10

   Peer-reviewed publication

   October, 2019

   Ethiopia

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   sustainable land management

   land consolidation

   rural development

   farmers

   In many African countries and especially in the highlands of Ethiopia—the investigation site of this paper—agricultural land is highly fragmented. Small and scattered parcels impede a necessary increase in agricultural efficiency. Land consolidation is a proper tool to solve inefficiencies in agricultural production, as it enables consolidating plots based on the consent of landholders. Its major benefits are that individual farms get larger, more compact, contiguous parcels, resulting in lower cultivation efforts.

3. Library Resource

   

   A catástrofe climática e o ataque neoliberal à Índia rural

   Reports & Research

   October, 2019

   Asia, India

   Indigenous & Community Land Rights

   Land & Food Security

   Land, Climate Change & Environment

   agriculture

   community land rights

   farmers

   food security

   land governance

   local communities

   poverty

   O Censo Indiano de 2011 contabilizou 833 milhões de pessoas vivendo em áreas rurais, sendo agricultores cerca de 95,8 milhões. A Índia rural, nas últimas décadas, passa por uma grave crise agrária, como consequência da comercialização da agricultura, da dominação do setor por corporações multinacionais, dívidas enormes entre os pequenos agricultores e trabalhadores agrícolas. Há uma epidemia de suicídios, altas taxas de desnutrição e crises em cascata entre artesãos e mineiros, os outros trabalhadores de áreas rurais.