Agricultural Development and Food Security in Developing Countries: Innovations and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 31023
Special Issue Editors
Interests: economics development; agricultural development; financial product and credit access; climate change and resilience; environmental sustainability; quantitative Risk management; econometric and statistical modeling
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Interests: sociology of agriculture; research methods and statistics; technology transfer; rural development; environmental sociology; social organization; interorganizational relations
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is aimed at exposing innovative approaches used to improve agricultural development and food security in developing countries. Agriculture in developing countries has been challenged by unsustainable practices, which has led to a decrease in household income and food insecurity. In addition, climate change, with all its impacts, has made it difficult for the agricultural sector to meet its goal of feeding the growing population. Over the past few decades, development projects have intervened to tackle the issues with promising results. Their interventions include research studies, provision of financial and technical support to farmers, and knowledge dissemination through extension programs. Limited documentation exists today to provide knowledge to the public on the current situation of those interventions. This Special Issue considers three thematic areas on the latest development in agricultural sector in developing countries. The first thematic focuses on the development of agricultural practices and innovations. The second thematic provides an overview of recent approaches used to better understand and tackle the issues of household income and food security. The third thematic looks at how to use extension and agricultural education to achieve sustainable agricultural development.
We invite researchers and development practitioners working in the field of agriculture, environment, climate change, and food security to submit their research articles for this Special Issue.
Papers should be policy-relevant, present-innovative, and appropriate theoretical and methodological approaches and might consider questions related but not limited to the following themes:
- Agricultural practices and innovations;
- Household income and food security;
- Extension and agricultural education for sustainable agricultural development.
Dr. Senakpon Kokoye
Prof. Dr. Joseph Molnar
Prof. Dr. Curtis Jolly
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- food security
- sustainable agricultural development
- household income
- extension program
- climate change
- innovations
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