the study sought to explore approaches for co-creation of conservation agriculture (ca) knowledge amongst farmers, nongovernmental organizations (ngos), government and specialist researchers. the aim of the study was to explore farmer initiated food security strategies among small holder resource poor farmers, through enhancement of farmers’ own productive capacity. the study was born out of th...

Agriculture is the way of life in rural areas. People use their own lands for growing different crops such as cereals (rice, wheat, maize), millets (pearl millet, finger millet, jowar), pulses (red gram, black gram, bengal gram), oilseeds (groundnut, soybean, linseed, mustard, rapeseed, sunflower, safflower, castor seed), vegetables (tomato, okra, cucurbits, cole crops, brinjal), horticultural ...

This paper assesses the effectiveness of the traditional models of co-operation and analyses best practice in collaboration between farmers seeking to gain significantly greater scale and flexibility in an increasingly global food chain. By drawing upon broader strategic management thinking and relevant international practice, the study seeks to identify new models for farmer collaboration. The...

Boredom proneness is commonly assessed and measured using self-report scales and questionnaires. The only full-scale measure of boredom that has been extensively used to assess boredom proneness is the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS) (Farmer and Sundberg, 1986). BPS takes boredom proneness to be the tendency to experience boredom in a wide range of situations (Farmer and Sundberg, 1986). Although...

in the U.S. Southwest, and with farmers on an irrigation project in northern Pakistan. He is currently beginning research with small-scale farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, on the role of yield stabilThe World’s Crop ity in farmer management of maize varieties and household risk, with the goal of identifying ways for farmers to work with formal plant breeders in developing improved varieties. Genetic ...

A cross-sectional study was conducted on 378 households, owning 524 head of cattle, to determine the prevalence of bovine tuberculosis (TB) and assess its public health implications. Stratified systematic sampling and a questionnaire were used, in addition to the comparative intradermal tuberculin test, mycobacterial culture and biochemical and drug susceptibility tests. Using a confidence inte...

The concept of ecological niche, considered by the food dimension point of view, was used to characterize a small farmers community from the south of Minas Gerais State (Brazil). Ten small farmer families and 76 different meals eaten by them were evaluated in this study, during three different periods: September 1995 (end of the dry season), December 1995 (rainy season) and April 1996 (end of t...

Small farmers in many tropical developing countries practice swidden agriculture. A key aspect of swidden agriculture is the time period during which the land is left fallow. This paper uses a new ecological-economic approach to study the fallow period and to determine the optimal length of this period in swidden agriculture. We first construct a theoretical model of a parcel of forest land tha...