Demand-Supply Disparity: How to Design Smallholder Farmers-Friendly Microcredit?

The Supply of Inorganic Fertilizers to Smallholder Farmers in Mozambique

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Climate change and smallholder farmers in Malawi

Pluriactivity: An Entrepreneurial Strategy for Smallholder Farmers

     Rural entrepreneurship is a new way in development theories for empowerment and capacity building in rural areas to change the current pattern of human living to a desirable and merit pattern. One of the manifestations of entrepreneurship is pluriactivity. Therefore, the purpose of this study was conducted on analyzing and pondering in the farmers' pluriactivity. Pluriactivity is defined a...

Contracting to Assure Supply: How to Share Demand Forecasts in a Supply Chain

Forecast sharing is studied in a supply chain with a manufacturer that faces stochastic demand for a single product and a supplier that is the sole source for a critical component. The following sequence of events occurs: the manufacturer provides her initial forecast to the supplier along with a contract, the supplier constructs capacity (if he accepts the contract), the manufacturer receives ...

FlowerNet - How to design a user friendly Sensor Network

Today, sensor networks are on the way from simulation and short term measurements in the laboratory to real long term applications where devices operate for several weeks without administration. In this paper we describe the design, development and evaluation of a suitable application for further measurements of sensor network protocols and applications where users can benefit from the services...