Agriculture is fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation and improvement in human well-being. As in other ages, agriculture remains in this century a major source of income for a majority of the world’s poor. It is the primary employment of people in developing economies, with three quarters of the world’s population (particularly in Asia and Africa) depending on it as their main sour...

Rice is the most important cereal crop in Kenya coming third after maize and wheat. It forms a very important diet for a majority of families in Kenya. The demand for rice in Kenya has seen a dramatic increase over the last few years while production has remained low. This is because rice production has been faced by serious constraints notably plant diseases of which the most devastating is ri...

Livelihood capital is an important basis for farmers to carry out different livelihood activities. In order consolidate the achievements of poverty alleviation, it necessary clarify specific impact alleviation households on their strategies. Based assessment households, this paper analyzes households’ strategies from two aspects: dominant and diversified The study found that financial was signi...

Improving dairy farmers’ livelihood resilience helps them sustain farming and reap higher economic returns. This study was conducted in the Jaffna District, part of dry zone Sri Lanka. Households’ to environmental challenges shocks determined through Structural Equation Model (SEM). The SEM path diagram developed based on Resilience by FAO, which uses as a latent variable is function six compon...

Although most micro-level studies show the positive impact of adaptation on food security and household income, these are only a few outcomes is intended to achieve. Farmers’ livelihoods function in complex ways such that an understanding multidimensional outcome important. These necessitate use multiple indicators evaluation adaptation. Based data collected from 810 randomly selected household...