This article assesses the achievement of land reform in South Africa with respect to the number of beneficiaries relative to rural employment and the demand for land and increases in livelihoods and agricultural output. Even though there are islands of success, for the past twenty years the Land Reform Programme has not satisfied these criteria. Implementation has been poor and farm workers’ an...

A questionnaire-based survey on veterinary herd health and production management services was conducted on 194 specialist dairy veterinarians and 466 dairy farmers. The farmers were randomly selected from greater than 6,000 farmer clients of the surveyed veterinarians. This paper reports these survey findings and the findings of an earlier survey conducted among the veterinarians. The survey in...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of farmers' knowledge and attitude regarding farmer field school (ffs) on biological control against rice stem borer in mazandaran province. the population of the study included all farmers residing in three villages of kohnedan, rangrizmahalleh and aliabad (n=121). a questionnaire was developed from reviewed literature. the content a...

Genetic conservation and improvement depends (among other things) on the action of local people (CBD, 1994). We know that farmers are extremely knowledgeable about their crops and that they continuously experiment with them and with new materials arriving from various sources (Richards, 1989). Certain farmers are locally recognised as having “expert” knowledge about agro-biodiversity. They are ...

Conservation strategies are increasingly driven by our understanding of the processes and patterns of gene flow across complex landscapes. The expansion of population genetic approaches into traditional agricultural systems requires understanding how social factors contribute to that landscape, and thus to gene flow. This study incorporates extensive farmer interviews and population genetic ana...

Livestock market participation is an important way to improve the livelihoods and income of smallholder farmers in Southwest Ethiopia. Although it plays role, livestock producers do not fully participate market. The purpose this study was investigate factors that influence intensity To analyze result, descriptive statistics Poisson regression analysis were used. results showed 65.4% respondents...

This study describes the community empowerment program for farmers through Pondok Pesantren Petani Nusantara program. is motivated by lives of people who are experiencing various problems, such as shifting farmers' livelihoods, number poor farmers, and also low education not yet empowered independent. The research method used a descriptive with qualitative approach. subjects in this were manage...