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Food security in Africa needs abundant, affordable and nutritious food for the growing population. •Smallholder farmers lack sufficient land or economic incentives to invest in agriculture. •The above issues create a ‘wicked problem’ – a conundrum for future food security. National food security in countries of sub-Saharan Africa requires an abundant supply of cheap and…

Changes in the age distribution of rural communities will bring major changes in farm size and management, and will require very active land and labor markets to accommodate the needed adjustments. Farms in Asia will get larger as aging operators retire and those who remain in farming consolidate holdings. Farm families in land-scarce South Asia will engage even more than at present in mixed…

This article (full article available) in Journal of Rural Studies reports findings on the steps and pathways thorugh with young people construct livelihoods in hotspots of agricultural commercialisation. Overall what emergers from a diversity of backgrounds, experiences and pathways is that the commercialised rural economy within which the operate offer them a variety of income earning…

Main outcome measures A graded coding method was developed and used to extract quantitative recommendations from 85 FBDGs. The health and environmental impacts of these guidelines were assessed by using a comparative risk assessment of deaths from chronic diseases and a set of country specific environmental footprints for greenhouse gas emissions, freshwater use, cropland use, and fertiliser…