Enduring low agricultural productivity is one of the major causes of rural poverty in South Asia. Based on a review of recent empirical studies, this paper focu

A joint FAO and World Bank study which shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty in the

The majority of the poor and hungry people in the world live on small farms and struggle to subsist on too little land with low input - low yield technologies.

Agricultural cooperatives and producer organizations are institutional innovations which have the potential to reduce poverty and improve food security. This bo

Organising small producers for dealing with production and market risks has been an issue of much debate and research. The co-operative model has been the predo