Stock Theft: Rural Livestock Farmers' Entrepreneurial Perspectives

Analysis of Livestock Waste Management Practices among Rural Farmers in Abia State, Nigeria

This study was on the analysis of livestock waste management practices among rural farmers in Abia State, Nigeria. A multi-stage sampling procedure was employed to select the 60 respondents for the study. Primary data used the study were collected using well-structured questionnaire. Descriptive statistical tools such as frequency counts, percentages, means, and multinomial logit regression wer...

Entrepreneurial Groups * Historical Perspectives

* The initial inspiration for this historical review arose during a professional development workshop at the 2007 Academy of Management (AOM) conference in Philadelphia, in which I addressed the past and future of research on entrepreneurial teams. I would like to thank Howard Aldrich, Mark Granovetter, Hans Landström, and Franz Lohrke for their helpful feedback on an earlier draft of this chap...

Developing Entrepreneurial Rural Communities

Rural communities in the United States have diversified and their dependence on agriculture has decreased substantially. In the 1980s, rural deindustrialization occurred and rural areas continued to become more service oriented: employment opportunities declined because of shifts in the world and U.S. economies, and anti-rural public policies. In response, some rural communities have become ent...

Development of livestock production in the tropics: farm and farmers' perspectives.

Because of an increasing demand for animal-source foods, an increasing desire to reduce poverty and an increasing need to reduce the environmental impact of livestock production, tropical farming systems with livestock must increase their productivity. An important share of the global human and livestock populations are found within smallholder mixed-crop-livestock systems, which should, theref...

Role of Livestock Projects in Empowering Women Smallholder Farmers for Sustainable Food Security in Rural Kenya