CHALLENGES TO AGRICULTURE FINANCING IN MALI By Kadidia Konare In Mali, like in many Sub-Saharan countries, inadequate access to credit has remained a central concern for farmers and a key constraint to the modernization and diversification of their activities. The commercial banks’ limited participation in agricultural financing and the hard terms and conditions for obtaining individual loans h...

— The results of a two-year survey of smallholders in Makhathini Flats, KwaZulu-Natal show that farmers who adopted Bt cotton in 1999–2000 benefited according to all the measures used. Higher yields and lower chemical costs outweighed higher seed costs, giving higher gross margins. These measures showed negative benefits in 1998–99, which conflicts with continued adoption, but stochastic effici...

The growing demand for high-value food commodities is opening up opportunities for farmers, especially smallholders to diversify towards commodities that have strong potential for higher returns to land, labour and capital. However, there is an apprehension about the capability of smallholder farmers to participate in the market-oriented production due to their lack of access to markets, capita...

This research examined the influence of farmer groups, role cooperatives, and derivative products on income farmers palm oil in East Aceh Regency. There were 100 smallholders appointed to represent all Regency using convenience sampling. The data collected questionnaires distributed by assistants. question items based indicators each variable analyzed multiple linear regression. results indicat...

Large-scale agricultural land acquisitions might entail substantial welfare implications for the affected rural population. Whether the impacts are indeed as devastating as the popular notion of “land grabs” would suggest depends on a number of factors, including the size of compensation payments, productivity spillovers on smallholders, employment opportunities for displaced farmers, and chang...

Influenza A viruses pose a major public health threat worldwide, especially due to the potential for inter-species transmission. Farmers could be among the first people to be infected with a novel reassortant virus in a pig herd and may serve as a source of the virus for their communities. In this study, the pig production systems of smallholders in rural Thailand were examined to qualitatively...

An effective approach to research on farmers' behaviour is based on: i) an explicit and well motivated behavioural theory; ii) an integrative approach; iii) understanding feedback processes and dynamics. While current approaches may effectively tackle some of them, they often fail to combine them together. The paper presents the integrative agent-centred (IAC) framework, which aims at filling t...

Understanding the heterogeneity of Zambia’s rural households and their different potential as agricultural producers is critical to designing strategies for commercially viable smallholders. The objective of this paper is to help contribute to efforts to identify who and where are the Zambian smallholders that have the highest potential to benefit from agricultural commercialization, and to ide...

The use of herbicides in oil palm cultivation practices is one the causes environmental damage which results loss plant species that can be utilized natural soil conservation efforts. role KUD as a forum for farmer membership very important regulating herbicide patterns efforts to preserve environment. This study aims analyze comparative pattern applied by Karya Mandiri independent smallholders...

Abstract Background Digital technologies are promoted as transformational for smallholders in Africa through the potential to enhance access knowledge, increase productivity and food security. Despite anticipations agricultural digitalization Africa, smallholders' engagement with is empirically underexplored. Hence, we surveyed 1565 rural farmers Northern Ghana explore how interact digital tool...