Andrew Dorward

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of agricultural growth in poverty reduction in poor agrarian economies and discuss its benefits in institutional development, whereas their high costs are much more visible.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reviewed the difficulties that smallholders face accessing services and showed how incentives for commercial delivery of services to smallholders differ between staple food, traditional cash crop, and high value product supply chains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the implementation of a large-scale agricultural input subsidy program in Malawi from 2005/06 to 2008/09 and found that the latter years of the programme have been accompanied by high international fertilizer prices and costs and high maize prices, the latter undermining the programme's food security, poverty reduction and growth benefits for many poor Malawian farmers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors set out an agenda for investment and policy reform in this area, providing a brief theoretical examination of the co-ordination problems involved before examining in turn demand and supply constraints affecting smallholder farmers, and policies for price stabilisation and the coordination of support services.

TL;DR: This article reviewed the debates on the contemporary role of agriculture in development and the case for small farms in light of the rise of supermarkets, lower commodity prices and liberalized trade, agricultural research funding, environmental change, HIV/AIDS, and changing policy ideas.