نتایج جستجو برای: smallholders farmers

تعداد نتایج: 34538  

2000
Kimberly A. Swallow

The adoption of intensified cattle-feeding techniques by smallholders in SubSaharan Africa has been slower than anticipated. This study seeks to better define and understand the role of local collective action in conditioning the strategies that smallholders choose to intensify their cattle-feeding techniques. Collective action was analyzed as a determinant of the transaction costs of accessing...

2007
John Herbohn Steve Harrison Jerry Vanclay Eduardo Mangaoang Nestor Gregorio Edwin Cedamon Iean Russell

This paper outlines the application of systems thinking in investigating ways to improve the returns to smallholder tree farmers in the Philippines. The paper illustrates how a systems approach was used in the conceptualisation of the project and how systems thinking facilitated a shared understanding of the how each individual’s research contributed to the broader project activities. Systems t...

2014
Stephen A. Wood Amir S. Jina Meha Jain Patti Kristjanson Ruth S. DeFries

A long history of household-level research has provided important local-level insights into climate adaptation strategies in the agricultural sector. It remains unclear to what extent these strategies are generalizable or vary across regions. In this study we ask about three potential key factors influencing farming households’ ability to adapt: access to weather information, household and agri...

Journal: :Elementa 2023

Gene editing technologies like CRISPR/Cas are breathing new life into expectations about the benefits of genetically modified crops for smallholder farmers in global South. In this article, we put these to test. We have interrogated both whether crop gene is employed and how done ways that more or less inclusive. To end, systematically investigated projects using analyzed their activities frame...

Journal: :Sustainability 2021

Bulgaria has a long tradition of smallholder farming, predominantly producing for self-consumption. As result land reform and farm restructuring, many rural households received agricultural land. Some developed commercial farms but most stayed as subsistence farmers used their small pieces to produce self-consumption market the excess output top up non-farm incomes or meagre pensions. They had ...

Journal: :International Journal of Current Science Research and Review 2022

Studies on oil palm plantation expansion have been widely conducted and still debatable. This condition is caused by the increase in land every year. It cannot be separated from role of investors/private companies, state, smallholders. paper focuses farmer perspective plantations with purpose describing economy, income diversification working time. study used a qualitative quantitative approach...

2016
Jochen Drescher Katja Rembold Kara Allen Philip Beckschäfer Damayanti Buchori Yann Clough Heiko Faust Anas M Fauzi Dodo Gunawan Dietrich Hertel Bambang Irawan I Nengah S Jaya Bernhard Klarner Christoph Kleinn Alexander Knohl Martyna M Kotowska Valentyna Krashevska Vijesh Krishna Christoph Leuschner Wolfram Lorenz Ana Meijide Dian Melati Miki Nomura César Pérez-Cruzado Matin Qaim Iskandar Z Siregar Stefanie Steinebach Aiyen Tjoa Teja Tscharntke Barbara Wick Kerstin Wiegand Holger Kreft Stefan Scheu

Tropical lowland rainforests are increasingly threatened by the expansion of agriculture and the extraction of natural resources. In Jambi Province, Indonesia, the interdisciplinary EFForTS project focuses on the ecological and socio-economic dimensions of rainforest conversion to jungle rubber agroforests and monoculture plantations of rubber and oil palm. Our data confirm that rainforest tran...

2008
Bryan Tilt

During the last quarter century, China’s agricultural sector has undergone a dramatic transformation from collective to private production under the so-called “Household Responsibility System.” This incentive system, designed to increase yields, reallocated communal land to peasant households, creating hundreds of millions of smallholders with relative autonomy over land use decisions and crop ...

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