In recent years, the high rate of conversion of wetlands for agriculture has raised environmental concerns in Uganda. A study was therefore conducted to identify issues that need to be addressed if communities are to continue deriving livelihoods from wetland agriculture, without causing stress to the wetlands of Lake Victoria basin. This was done by conducting household surveys and focus group...

With economic development agricultural systems in the Global South transform from subsistence farming to higher productivity with market integration and increase rural income food security. In Nepal, agriculture continues provide livelihoods for two-thirds of predominantly population, largely at a subsistence-level. Rice is staple covers largest land area but yields are relatively low, an annua...

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a weakening of the formal economy and crisis informal in Laos. population responded with partial return subsistence farming, which almost entire rural had been engaged anyway. farming was accompanied by revival ethic, is compatible neither Stalinist socialism nor capitalism. In current configuration, Lao People’s Revolutionary Party position take advantage this ...

Drought introduces a different set of risks and adaptation strategies as compared to flood, river erosion other natural hazards. This paper attempts investigate farmers' combat climate change in drought prone areas identify their determinants based on survey 480 farmers from northwestern Bangladesh. Farmers commonly practicing six technology-based one labour/family-based strategy with 80% adapt...

This paper innovates as it tests two different hypotheses regarding climate impacts on agricultural markets in Brazil: farmers only observe the average climate conditions of their region when deciding the type and amount of crop/animal to grow/raise; and weather diversions from normal climate conditions deviate farmers from their optimal profits. Both hypotheses are not rejected by the data. Th...

Minor millets are examples of underutilized plant species, being locally important but rarely traded internationally with an unexploited economic potential. In the Kolli hills of Tamil Nadu, India, a genetically diverse pool of minor millet varieties are grown by the tribal farming communities to meet their subsistence food needs. Most of these minor crops were not traded outside the farming co...

We explore the impact of climate change adaptation on technical efficiency Ethiopian farmers using panel data collected from 6820 farm plots. employ Green's (2010) stochastic frontier approach and propensity score matching to address selection bias. Our results reveal that improves maize, wheat barley production. also show failure account for bias underestimates average level. findings imply ex...