This article examines the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adopt agricultural technologies and the causal impact of adoption on farmers’ integration into output market using data obtained from a random cross-section sample of 700 farmers in Ethiopia. We estimate a Double-Hurdle model to...
This article examines the driving forces behind farmers’ decisions to adopt improved pigeonpea and maize and estimates the causal impact of technology adoption on household welfare using data obtained from a random cross-section sample of 613 small-scale farmers in Tanzania. We use seemingly...
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) organized a seminar on a recently published book entitled: How to end hunger in times of crises. Let's start now! We invited FSN Forum members in Rome and interested FAO staff to join a discussion with the two authors, Andrew MacMillan and...
Notas a propósito del tratamiento de la agricultura por el Plan de Desarrollo del actual gobierno Colombiano.
The Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) is an online community for multi-stakeholder dialogue where policy decisions on food security and nutrition are collectively inspired, developed and linked with practice. Founded in 2007 by FAO’s Agricultural Development Economics Division...