Farming On A Scale That Fits

How to Establish a Scale That Best Fits Your Agenda: The Guidelines to Build a Web Service Quality Scale

As the Web-based commerce booms rapidly, it is crucial for companies to develop comprehensive yet customized measurement of Website service quality in order to formulate their winning strategies. However, no single exiting scale can be globally effective to capture Websites service quality because service quality dimensions can differ according to the various characteristics of the websites. Th...

Effects of Land Acquisition for Large Scale Farming on the Performance of Small Scale Farming in Nigeria

The study examined the effects of land acquisition for large scale farming on the performance; productivity and technical efficiency of small-scale farming in Nigeria. The primary data for the study were collected from 200 small-scale farmers selected using the multistage sampling technique, from three local government areas in Ondo State, Nigeria. The farmers were grouped into Group A: farmers...

Sustainability, Sustainable Livelihoods, Climate Risks, Small Scale -Farming

Farmers frequently cope with risks due to the uncertainty of climatic conditions. Population growth, changes in agricultural policies, environmental regulations and the degradation of natural resources such as soil and water also present farmers with numerous challenges. Although farmers have experience in coping with a certain degree of uncertainty, increased climate variability and changes ma...

Small-scale versus large-scale cocoa farming in Cameroon

Smallholding in the cocoa sector has been seen as a hindrance to production and productivity growth due to the ageing of the cocoa farmers, limited access to credit, low level of education and low adoptability of innovations. In order to curb this, policy makers have resorted to implementing policy instruments that encourage the extension of small rural farms into larger farms, thereby undermin...

Small-Scale Farming and Shifting Cultivation