Smallholder farming systems in sub-Saharan Africa have undergone changes in land use, productivity and sustainability. Understanding of the drivers that have led to changes in land use in these systems and factors that influence the systems' sustainability is useful to guide appropriate targeting of intervention strategies for improvement. We studied low input Teso farming systems in eastern Ug...

The purpose of this research is to conduct a marketing and revenue analysis seaweed producers. This study takes qualitative approach via the use exploratory techniques. included all farmers who grow seaweed. Slovin formula was used calculate sample size, which 40 heads households. determined using basic random sampling technique. While data gathering accomplished interviews, observation, docume...

Abstract. From the perspectives of many environmental and conservative policy makers, improving and diversifying the livelihoods have been found as a mechanism to promote the livelihoods and persuade people to avoid the overexploitation and degradation of natural resources. Due to the fragility of the environment and inconsistency of incomes, the alternative income sources may be promised to wa...

In the United States, much social and environmental legislation required of nonfarm firms has eluded the farming industry. For the most part, the US government has used the “carrot” of payments rather than the “stick” of regulation to correct externalities in farming. Agriculture also has received large income transfers and favorable tax treatment to save family farms. The nation might have bee...

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...

Traditional smallholder farming systems are characterized by low yields and high risks of crop failure and food insecurity. Through a biophysical model, PARCHED-THIRST and a socio-economic farming systems simulation model, OLYMPE, we evaluated the performance of farming practices based on maize yield, gross margin and total family balance over a 10-year period in semi-arid Olifants River Basin ...

In South Korea, the Soyang Lake is an important source of drinking water to the metropolitan areas including Seoul. However, water quality problems in the Soyang Lake have still remained due to chemical contaminations attributed to conventional farming practices in the upstream areas. Based on a downstream consumer survey using a contingent valuation method, this study estimated the expected wi...

in this study tried to calculate attributed-based index and measurement of farmer’s attention to wheat (triticum aestivum l.) seed environmental, cropping and marketing attribute and evaluate social– economical factors influencing on this index. after this estimation, effective factors have selected. related data to 102 mashhad wheat producers, iran were used for estimations poisson regression....

Cooked rice is a staple food for Koreans which provides more than 60% of daily required energy. In 1960's, Koreans ate 600 g-800 g of cooked rice per meal and the energy obtained from cooked rice was almost more than 80% of the daily intake of energy. However, as the economy of Korea improved, the major industry has been shifted from agriculture to various manufacturing industries and the expor...

The countryside and its supposed bedrock, farming, are commonly supposed to be under threat. What might the future hold? This article explores the major pressures and apparent opportunities facing agriculture and rural development in the Northern Region. It begins (section I) with a brief review of the recent economic history of the agricultural sector in Britain, drawing out the implications f...