Crop diversification as a smallholder livelihood strategy within semi-arid agricultural systems near Mount Kenya

By P. McCord, Michael E. Cox, Mikaela Schmitt-Harsh, Tom P. Evans. 2015

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A review on the contribution of crop diversification to Sustainable Development Goal 1 “No poverty” in different world regions (2019, background): “Sahley, Groelsema, Marchione, and Nelson (2005), Dorward and Chirwa cited by Chisinga, Mangani, and Mvula (2011), and Chibwana et al. (2012) observed that, in Malawi, programmes created by government policies to distribute maize seeds and fertiliser among smallholder farmers (e.g., Farm Input Subsid”
Building livelihood resilience: what role does agroforestry play? (2019, background): “According to McCord et al. (2015), diversification of on-farm plant species is one strategy that smallholder farmers utilize to reduce their vulnerability in the face of global environmental change.”
Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter? (2021, methodology): “Although this may not yield a perfect random sample, this approach has previously been applied in an attempt to attain a more representative sample in the absence of a population list and with resource constraints (McCord et al., 2015).”