Principal Challenges Confronting Smallholder Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

By T. Jayne, David L. Mather, E. Mghenyi. 2010

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Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Soil Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. M. Qaim
2. Elisabeth Fischer
3. N. Hossain
4. J. Leavy
5. K. Descheemaeker
6. P. Peters
7. Johnny Mugisha
8. K. Giller

In Soil Science

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2. J. Leavy
3. K. Descheemaeker
4. P. Peters
5. Johnny Mugisha
6. K. Giller
7. Elisabeth Fischer
8. M. Qaim

Citations in the corpus

• Linking Smallholders to Markets: Determinants and Impacts of Farmer Collective Action in Kenya (2012, background): “In order to be successful, development programs have to address the multiple market failures that the small farm sector suffers from (Jayne et al. 2010).”
• The Effect of Land Access on Youth Employment and Migration Decisions: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia (2018, unknown): “1 However, population pressures—including a youth bulge in many developing countries—are reducing land availability (Jayne et al. 2010; Muyanga and Jayne 2014) and potentially opportunities for youth to work in agriculture.”
• Green Revolution: Impacts, limits, and the path ahead (2012, background): “For instance, in eastern and southern Africa, the amount of arable land has risen only marginally, but the percentage of households engaged in agriculture has grown threefold (Jayne et al. 2010).”
• Small farms and development in sub-Saharan Africa: Farming for food, for income or for lack of better options? (2021, background): “Similarly, several authors suggest that a doubling or tripling of crop income will have little impact on households’ absolute poverty rates (Franke et al., 2014; Harris & Orr, 2013; Jayne et al., 2010; Mabiso et al., 2014).”
• Land appropriation, surplus people and a battle over visions of agrarian futures in Africa (2013, background): “In addition, what is needed are: bold… and longer-term approaches… substantial increases in public investments in infrastructure (particularly in irrigation and land improvement), making use of labour intensive public 26Note that I do not mean full self-sufficiency – that is not a goal, nor is it po”
• Who Wants to Farm? Youth Aspirations, Opportunities and Rising Food Prices (2014, background): “Without significant productivity increases, innovations and/or diversification in the near future, small farms will be decreasingly viable as economic and social units (Jayne et al. 2010).”
• Smallholder Farmers’ Decision and Level of Participation in the Potato Market in Uganda (2014, background): “[29] stated that most smallholders lack the land and other resources to produce a surplus.”