The world has to feed a growing population with the same area of land and less water. Irrigation is key to managing this problem. A 10-year project called Transforming Irrigation in Southern Africa ...

Zero Hunger: is one of the most ambitious commitments in the history of international development. Its five targets address ...

Globally, agriculture faces mounting pressures. These are driven by climate change, land degradation, labour shortages, supply chain disruptions and the demand for food from a growing population. At ...

Contract farming has emerged as a strategic tool to integrate smallholder farmers into value chains, aiming to overcome market access barriers, enhance technology uptake and stabilise incomes. Under ...

Agricultural productivity within smallholder farming systems underpins food security, rural livelihoods and sustainable development for over half a billion farm households worldwide. These systems are ...

We estimate our Smallholder farming business to double by 2030 (vs. reference year 2019 of ~€1.7bn€). In 2022 already, together with our partners, we supported 52 million smallholder farmers in LMICs ...

Meaningfully increasing rural incomes means, at least in part, commercialisation of small holder agriculture. Value addition of agricultural produce, tourism and the digital economy, offer other ...

A great deal of research on agriculture in Africa is organised around the premise that intensification can take smallholder farmers out of poverty. The emphasis in programming often focuses on ...

Bayer set the goal to support 100 million smallholder farmers in low- and middle-income countries by 2030. Bayer’s projects in India, Bangladesh, Kenya, and Mexico/Honduras improve growers’ income and ...

A group of farmers in Ghana discussing ways to adapt farming to climate change. Courtesy AICCRA CGIAR Contract farming is when farmers grow crops to meet contracts they have signed with buyers. They ...

PLDT and Smart are helping smallholder farmers across Southeast Asia move beyond digital access by promoting community ...

To support smallholders in their efforts to escape poverty by adopting modern crop varieties, inputs and management practices, it’s necessary to know if their current resources – particularly their ...