S. Wiggins

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The Future of Small Farms for Poverty Reduction and Growth
"The people operating small farms in developing countries have to cope with the risks of these small businesses and have long faced heavy challenges. Today, these challenges are particularly severe,…
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHANGES IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY AND THE INCIDENCE OF POVERTY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
The Future of Small Farms: Trajectories and Policy Priorities
Agricultural Productivity Growth and Poverty Alleviation
How important is agricultural growth to poverty reduction? This article first sets out the theoretical reasons for expecting agricultural growth to reduce poverty. Several plausible and strong…
Leaping and Learning: Linking smallholders to markets in Africa
Can the smallholder model deliver poverty reduction and food security
Future diets Implications for agriculture and food prices
The over-consumption of food, coupled with lives that are increasingly sedentary, is producing large numbers of people who are overweight and obese – primarily in highincome countries, but also in…
How Special Are Rural Areas? The Economic Implications of Location for Rural Development
Despite on-going change, rural areas remain characterised by relative abundance of natural capital, and by distance and the relatively high cost of movement. They are also home to most of the world’s…
NGOs and seed provision to smallholders in developing countries
FAC Working Paper 08. Can the smallholder model deliver poverty reduction and food security for a rapidly growing population in Africa
Given the high transactions costs of hiring labour of farms, diseconomies of scale can be expected when labour is relatively cheap and abundant compared to other factors of production: which may…
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