the study investigates factors that affect members' satisfaction of mashhad cattle husbandry cooperatives. the required data and information were collected via interviews and questionnaires from cattlemen. cattlemen of mashhad constitute the statistical population of the study. using cochran formula, 60 cattlemen were selected randomly as the sample in 2013. spss software package was used to an...

1 Land Use Division, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 2 Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, Institute of Land Use Systems, Muencheberg, Germany, 3 Department of Biological Production Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchuu, Japan, 4 Field Science Centre for Education a...

The rising world population is increasing the pressure on agriculture to produce more food (Fig. 1 and 2). This is more so for the African continent, where it is not just about food supply, but also a critical factor in economic development, poverty alleviation and improving living standards especially in rural areas. On the other side agricultural production is one of the factors contributing ...

For economic development to succeed in Africa in the next 50 years, African agriculture will have to change beyond recognition. Production will have to have increased massively, but also labour productivity, requiring a vast reduction in the proportion of the population engaged in agriculture and a large move out of rural areas. The paper questions how this can be squared with a continuing comm...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.06.025 0747-5632/ 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. q This research was supported in part by the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station federal formula funds, Project No. NYC-131442 received from Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations express...

In the context of economic renovation, Vietnam has transferred land-use rights form state and cooperative units under central planning to individual, community and other entities. Despite remarkable success in the lowland agriculture, the advancement in the uplands stays behind expectation. Agriculture land and forest, two basic components of the human ecosystem of the ethnic minority communiti...

This paper concerns the issue of food systems in context urban development. It describes relevant residential area ideas that integrate cities with production, such as agrarian cooperatives. In first section, modernist projects areas linked farms are reviewed, considering cooperative movement and Industrial Revolution. review shows aim these historical was self-sufficiency sustainability, based...