Participation of Landless and Marginal Farmers in Agricultural Income Generating Activities Poverty Alleviation

WOMEN AND SMALL BUSINESS (microenterprise) The Income-Generating Project for Marginal Farmers and Landless

positive. The features that characterize rural women’s work — labour intensity, local materials and local markets — also constrain product diversification and market expansion. Other constraints include lack of field-tested appropriate technology, interference by men in the use of capital reserves, lack of infrastructure and transportation, lack of managerial skills, direct and indirect competi...

Income-generating Programmes for Poverty Alleviation through Non-formal Education

Agricultural Technology, Economic Viability and Poverty Alleviation in Kenya

4}} INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background. The major challenges facing Kenya today are poverty and unemployment. About 50% of the rural population and 30% of the urban population live below the poverty line. With 80% of the population being rural the poverty problem is overwhelming. The country has been unable to generate adequate employment and wage employment has been declining over the recent past. Wh...

Extent of Rural Women’s Participation in Agricultural Activities

Rural women in Pakistan, under a small holding system of farming, play a pivotal role in farming. They actively participate in a range of activities related to crop production and livestock management. Rural women remain busy from dawn to dusk in various agricultural activities, including pre-harvest, post-harvest and livestock management. Their participation is well dispersed but less perceive...

Effects of Climate Change on Income Generating Activities of Farmers in Osun State, Nigeria

The need to examine the changes that the effect of climate change brings about on the income generating activities of farmers necessitated this study. Two local government areas (LGAs) were randomly selected and simple random sampling was used to sample 160 farmers from the 2 LGAs. Chi-square and Pearson products moment correlation (PPMC) were used to analyze the data obtained with the use of s...