Young people, livelihood building and the transformation of African agriculture: A reality check
Over a ten-year period, we, together with colleagues, have used qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore the dominant narratives...
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Over a ten-year period, we, together with colleagues, have used qualitative and quantitative analysis to explore the dominant narratives...
Published by: Sage
The notion of principles, and the sense that they are different from but closely linked to practices, is deeply rooted in the agronomy...
Published by: University of Bristol
Millions of children throughout Africa undertake many forms of farm and domestic work. Some of this work is for wages, some is on their...
Published by: Sage
This article describes how the mass media in Ghana use quantitative information to communicate the prevalence of child labour. During...
Published by: Elsevier
Agriculture faces many challenges. In both public discourse and the scientific literature debates about the future are increasing framed...
Published by: Sage
This paper profiles some key promoters of nature-based and natural systems agriculture – Masanobu Fukuoka, Wes Jackson, Jerome Irvin...
Published by: Sage
This paper introduces the Outlook on Agriculture Special Issue on biomimicry and nature-based solutions. It provides a selective...
This paper analyses the use of metaphor in discourses around the “superweed” Palmer amaranth. Most weed scientists associated with...
Published by: Sage
How to stimulate technological change to enhance agricultural productivity and reduce poverty remains an area of vigorous debate. In the...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Rural economic transformations in Africa are generating new opportunities to engage with agricultural value chains. However, many young people are said to be locked out of such opportunities because of limited access to farmland, which pushes them out of agriculture and rural areas, and/or hinders their autonomy.