The study examines the kind of actors and resources that empower small-scale farmers to promote sustainable agriculture. It also analyzes the reasons given by farmers who changed their farming methods. In 2004, the Department of Agriculture launched a project for the Promoting Organic Farming and Marketing in Lao PDR (PROFIL). PROFIL tried to develop market opportunities for Lao’s organic produ...

The risk of loses of income and productive means due to adverse weather associated to climate change can significantly differ between farmers sharing a productive landscape. It is important to learn more about how farmers react to different levels of risk, under measurable and unmeasurable uncertainty. Moreover, the costs associated to investments in reduced vulnerability to climatic events are...

The diamondback moth (DBM), Plutella xylostella (L.), remains a major pest of brassica crops worldwide. DBM has been estimated globally to cost US$ 1 billion in direct losses and control costs. Chemical control of this pest remains difficult due to the rapid development of resistance to insecticides and to their effect on natural enemies. These problems are especially severe in South Asia and A...

Abstract Key message The Forest Department strongly influences agroforestry design, tree species selection, and the participation motivation of farmers to plant trees. Farmers perceive trees as harmful crops have avoided planting them near crops. We recommend considering farmers’ preferences, establishing field schools, increasing their awareness about benefits improve adoption rates systems. C...

Agriculture is a driving force for fundamental force for economic and social revolution. We identify the clear road map to the Indian farmers through the Technology Centers. It speedup the globalization and it makes to knowledge and information so easier for the Indian farmers. To achieve the knowledge society in Indian agriculture, easily get the Information about agriculture through the infor...

Climate changes are occurring rapidly at both regional and global scales. Farmers are faced with the challenge of developing new agricultural practices to help them to cope with unpredictable changes in environmental, social, and economic conditions. Under these conditions, adaptive management requires a farmer to learn by monitoring provisional strategies and changing conditions, and then incr...

present study was conducted in the three provinces of pakistan with the objectives to study the curricula relevancy with the participatory extension, supervision and administration and its practical applicability at the field level. for this extension agents of the selected provinces were selected purposively. mail questionnaire were used as instruments for data collection form 227 respondents ...

INTRODUCTION Minority populations, including those from rural areas, continue to be underrepresented in medical schools despite increased efforts to recruit them. Although family physicians are more highly represented in rural areas, and medical students from rural areas are more likely to return to rural areas, relatively few medical students enter the specialty of family medicine in the USA. ...