Jon Hellin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine what conditions facilitate effective producer organizations for smallholders' market access, with special attention to the characteristics of user groups, institutional arrangements, types of products (staples, perishables and other commodities), markets (local, domestic and international), and external environment.

TL;DR: The benefits of farmer organization are more evident in the vegetable sector, characterized by high transaction costs associated with market access as discussed by the authors, which is possibly due to farmer organizations' limited business skills and non-replicable organizational models.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the projected climate change scenarios for Africa's maize growing regions using the outputs of 19 global climate models and found that air temperatures are expected to increase throughout maize mega- environments within sub-Saharan Africa by an average of 2.1°C.

TL;DR: The use of metal silo should be encouraged in order to prevent storage losses and enhance food security in developing countries, including Africa, Asia and Latin America.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the role that producer organizations can play and the challenges they face in improving access to markets and technologies for enhancing productivity of smallholder agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa in the post-adjustment era.