the study was conducted among the two farmer groups in bhaktapur and kavre districts of nepal. the main objective of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of ipm ffs on creating awareness and disseminating the knowledge on sustainable pest management to the farmers and to assess the relationships between enhanced ipm knowledge and adoption of ipm strategies by the farmers. the study has be...

This research investigated the outcomes and social effects of a community-based development project in form rice-based community intervention. Conducted Regions 1, 6, 10 Philippines, it employed mixed methods to gather quantitative qualitative data concurrently from 86 randomly sampled farmer-cooperators 20 purposively key informants who were implementers facilitators. The improved farmer-coope...

INTRODUCTION: Livestock production and associated products offer substantial opportunities for economic growth and poverty reduction for rural households in Zambia. However, smallholder livestock producers are often characterized by low livestock market participation. Among the many reasons cited in the literature are producer remoteness from the main urban market centers and poor road infrastr...

This paper investigates the relationship between food security and commercialisation using data from a household survey in National Smallholder Farmer Association of Malawi (NASFAM) operated areas. NASFAM promotes commercialisation of agriculture by introducing the principle of farming as a business among its members who are largely smallholder subsistence farmers. The study finds that househol...

A stochastic distance function frontier was estimated using data from a national survey of organic farmers to evaluate the effect of farm-specific attributes on efficiency. Farm-specific and regional variables that shift efficiency were incorporated into the multioutput distance function, including organic farming experience, use of soil-improving inputs, and farmer involvement in research. Par...

— This paper links changing global coffee markets to opportunities and vulnerabilities for sustaining small-scale farmer livelihoods in northern Nicaragua. Changing governance structures, corporate concentration, oversupply, interchangeable commodity grade beans, and low farm gate prices characterize the crisis in conventional coffee markets. In contrast, certified Fair Trade and organic are tw...

We empirically test separation of ownership and control (SOC) and the interaction of SOC with farmer effort on farm success using data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Resource Management Survey. We use a two-stage leastsquares approach with instrumental variables that proxy for participation constraints in binding incentive contracts. We find that the interaction has a si...

In the past few decades, climate-smart agriculture (CSA) has been promoted to improve food security and raise incomes as a strategy for sustainable agricultural development. The adoption rates among smallholder farmers, particularly in Africa, remain low have varied different contexts. This study investigated market participation spillover effects from of CSA practices central Malawi using cont...