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How can we make smallholder agriculture in the semi-arid tropics more profitable and resilient?. Working Paper Series No. 59

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Title How can we make smallholder agriculture in the semi-arid tropics more profitable and resilient?. Working Paper Series No. 59
 
Creator Orr, A
Mausch, K
 
Subject Food legumes
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description This White Paper synthesizes current knowledge about how to make smallholder agriculture in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) more profitable and resilient.
To structure the discussion, we developed a simple conceptual framework based on the CGIAR Research Programs for Dryland Cereals and Grain Legumes, which are led by ICRISAT. The framework links demand drivers, smallholder diversity, product lines, impact pathways, and impacts. Product lines are developed in response to demand drivers, which include not only income and urbanization but also shocks. We distinguish between reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience and how these operate at crop, household, and system level. Smallholder diversity is recognized by developing product lines for two target groups, namely subsistence- and market-oriented farmers. We identify the key demand drivers and shocks that create demand for new technology. Development domains show the role of endowments in determining smallholder demand for different types of product lines...
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2014
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8623/1/Smallholder%20Agriculture%20Wps%2059.pdf
Orr, A and Mausch, K (2014) How can we make smallholder agriculture in the semi-arid tropics more profitable and resilient?. Working Paper Series No. 59. Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Nairobi, Kenya.