The story told by The Persistence of Subsistence Agriculture begins 8,000 years ago as humans began using the land and weather to provide themselves with food,

One of the more perplexing problems of economic development is helping subsistence farmers break away from production simply for home consumption to become comm

The complex relationship between subsistence practices and formal markets should be a growing matter of concern for those uneasy with the stark contrast between

At least fifty years of projects aimed at the rural poor in Africa have had very little impact. Up to half of the children of these countries are still sufferin