Agriculture and the Generation Problem

Ben White

Despite predictions that they are destined to disappear, smallholder or family farms still number more than 500 million worldwide, and account for 80 percent of the world’s food. However, smallholder farmer populations are ageing, and many of them have no successor. Young rural men and women are tur...

Productive products with gender-based approach

Productive products with gender-based approach Toolkit

Counterrevolution

Walden Bello

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte and Viktor Orban is captivating and mobilizing large numbers of people. In an increasing number of countries, the extreme right has already captured the g...

Banana farming in flood deposited sandy soil

Banana is one of the major and economically important fruit crops of Nepal. It has been traditionally grown in home yards for home consumption purpose.

Indoor Oyster Mushroom Farming

This technical brief details the cultivation of oyster mushrooms from spawning to harvesting. It also discusses oyster mushroom cultivation as an adaptive and crop diversification technique in flood plains to minimize risk of flood and drought to livelihood.

Speculative Harvests

Jennifer Clapp, S. Ryan Isakson

In Speculative Harvests, Clapp and Isakson investigate the evolving relationship between the agrifood and financial sectors, paying particular attention to how the contemporary process of financialization is reshaping agrarian development and food systems. Understood as the growing prevalence of fin...

Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice

Flood Adaptive Rice Cultivation Practice Technical Brief

Tomato Processing

Tomato processing can be an instrumental skill for farmers who want to convert the tomatoes into various other products besides using it as vegetables. This technical brief contains the varieties of ways a farmer can process the tomato into many other products. Tomatoes are known to be the most impo...

Vermicomposting: A promising technology to turn kitchen waste to organic compost

Vermicomposting is a process of composting that uses earthworm to convert organic waste into humus-like high-quality compost.This technique of converting organic waste into compost manure not only boosts organic production but also helps to effectively manage the household and urban organic waste.

Smallholder Agriculture and Market Participation

Nigel Poole

Small-scale agriculture is the main livelihood of the majority of the world’s rural poor. Smallholder farmers in the global South play a crucial role in maintaining biodiversity, as well as contributing to food security in their countries. However, they need to be connected to markets to see sustain...