Community land trusts are flexible organizations that embrace diverse land uses to address various community needs. While the majority of CLTs currently focus on the development and stewardship of owner-occupied housing, some organizations have broadened their focus to emerging opportunities in non-residential development. The study examines non-residential programs and activities implemented b...

BACKGROUND Concern about food security and its effect on persistent undernutrition has increased interest in how agriculture could be used to improve nutritional outcomes in developing countries. Yet the evidence base for the impact of agricultural interventions targeted at improved nutrition is currently poor. OBJECTIVE To map the extent and nature of current and planned research on agricult...

The Peruvian altiplano is a marginal agricultural region with limited infrastructure, climate constraints, and high levels of poverty. Data were collected from 265 farms in four different agricultural regions, and data from three of those regions are analyzed here. Regressions were run with soil nutrient loss, soil depth loss, and yield loss over the past 20 years, as perceived by farmers. Loca...

There are two sets of obstacles to agricultural development in the Eastern Cape Province. This report differentiates between the overarching structural constraints on agricultural production and the specific obstacles in particular development initiatives and agricultural practices. The first set refers to the apparent dualism (which survives as a grim reminder of the legacies of colonialism an...

An increasing amount of development aid is targeted to areas affected by civil conflict; some of it in the hope that aid will reduce conflict by weakening popular support for insurgent movements. But if insurgents know that development projects will weaken their position, they have an incentive to derail them, which may exacerbate conflict. To formalize this intuition, we develop a theoretical ...

the purpose of this study is to identify factors affecting the development of entrepreneurship in theagricultural advisory services companies. the main instrument to collect the data was questionnaire and itsvalidity of questionnaire is confirmed by experts and its reliability is measured through cronbach’s alpha(75%). the data were analyzed by spss software version 16. the finding showed that ...