Failure to consider the needs of families on small farms during the formulation of agricultural development policies may result in unexpected inequities that worsen the small farmers' disadvantaged circumstances. An important challenge facing policymakers is the identification and implementation...

Rural development efforts in Nigeria during the Fourth Plan period (1981-1985) are being concentrated on agricultural development projects (ADPs), designed and implemented with the assistance of the World Bank. These projects began during the Third Plan period (1975-1980), during which they were...

Where several distinct agencies are charged with bringing a variety of services to the agricultural development of a particular zone, implementation of a consistent set of policies by all the concerned agencies as well as the acceptance of these policies by farmers, can be complicated by...

Agricultural mechanization has brought far reaching changes in farming structure in all developed countries, and its effects are now beginning to be felt in many developing countries. Within the former, mechanization has been associated with increasing farm size, migration of labour out of...

Since 1973, inflation has been a pervasive phenomenon affecting the agricultural sectors of most developed and developing countries. Despite its current significance, the issue of inflation and its impact on the agricultural sector is remarkably under-researched. In this paper we assess some of...