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Nobukhosi Nhliziyo and Abbyssinia Mushunje
Globally, climate change remains one of the most pressing challenges, and it is also an obstacle to the fundamental achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. The purpose of the study was to examine the determinants of small-scale farmers? partici...
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GE Ekwere, ID Edem
Pág. 192 - 204
Lack of capital has been identified as one of the constraints that faced by small scale farmers. The aim of this research was to examine the effect of agricultural credit on the agriculture production, and calculate the inputs and outputs among small sca...
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Clinton Beckford, Donovan Campbell and David Barker
Members of the genus Dioscorea, food yams, were introduced to Jamaica from Africa during the slave era and have remained a staple in local diets and national cuisine. Yam cultivation has also been an important economic activity providing employm...
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Alim Setiawan Slamet, Akira Nakayasu and Masahiro Ichikawa
The rise of supermarkets in Indonesia since the end of the 1990s have been transforming the food retail sector and providing further market opportunities for small-scale farmers, in which most of Indonesia?s farmer falls into this category. The aim of th...
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Carlos Alberto Cortés-Rodríguez, Gladys Martínez-Gómez, José Luis Romo-Lozano and Ezequiel Arvizu-Barrón
Entrepreneurial skills are fundamental to the success of agricultural production units. Since small-scale farmers have developed production skills but not market-oriented skills, it is necessary to assess their entrepreneurial skills to provide a referen...
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Meidiana Purnamasari, Wen-Chi Huang and Bambang Priyanto
Enhancing self-sufficiency and national food security have been strategic policy goals of the Indonesian government. From 2015 to 2019, a food policy program called Upsus Pajale had been implemented to provide input subsidies and extension assistants to ...
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Jelle Van Loon, Alicia B. Speratti and Bram Govaerts
Precision agriculture technology at the hands of smallholder farmers in the developing world is often deemed far-fetched. Low-resource farmers, however, are the most susceptible to negative changes in the environment. Providing these farmers with the rig...
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Jamiu Olushola Saliu,Muhammed Kabir Ibrahim,Folashade Oluwatosin Eniojukan
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This study examined the socio-economic determinants of the adoption of improved rice technologies by small scale farmers in Kogi State, Nigeria. It specifically investigated, influence of socio-economic characteristics on the adoption of improved rice te...
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Ugbor I. Kalu,Ambrose Nnaemeka Omeje,Augustine Jideofor Mba
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This study investigated financial inclusion in the agricultural sector in Nigeria. The study utilized survey data generated from 600 recovered questionnaires which were administered to farmers in both rural and urban locations in Nigeria. The study devel...
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Khodran Alzahrani, Mubashar Ali, Muhammad Imran Azeem and Bader Alhafi Alotaibi
Agriculture is an integral constituent of Pakistan?s economy and the primary source of livelihood for nearly 65% of the population living in rural areas. Rice is the second major staple food after wheat and a significant source of foreign exchange earnin...
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O Ogba,Emmanuel Ahaotu,R.O Ihenacho,,A O Chukwu
The study assessed constraints to increased layers production among small-scale poultry farmers in Ikwuano Local Government Area of Abia State. Data were collected using a multistage sampling technique to select 120 small-scale poultry farmers. Descripti...
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Samantha de la Fontaine, R. R. Malgas
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Solomon Zitta Wuyep and Isaac Tebogo Rampedi
In most urban areas of sub-Saharan Africa, the migration of people from rural to urban areas in search of better socio-economic conditions and improved livelihoods is contributing to increased unemployment levels, poverty and large scale urban deprivatio...
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Daniela Craveiro, Sibila Marques, Ana Marreiros, Ruth Bell, Matluba Khan, Cristina Godinho, Sonia Quiroga and Cristina Suárez
PROVE is a Portuguese program that empowers small-scale farmers organized into local networks to directly commercialize baskets of locally produced fruits and vegetables to consumers. This study applied a post-test-only non-equivalent group design to eva...
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Ana Paula Matei, Paul Swagemakers, Maria Dolores Dominguez Garcia, Leonardo Xavier Da Silva, Flaminia Ventura and Pierluigi Milone
The local turn to food is often claimed to be a way to increase the value-added component retained by primary producers and to provide healthy, fresh and affordable food to consumers. Rio do Grande do Sul in Brazil has several governmental support progra...
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Mavhungu Abel Mafukata
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This paper investigates constraints and complexities affecting entrepreneurial and Agri-business small-scale communal cattle farming success and sustainability in the Vhembe District of Limpopo Province, South Africa. The respondent entrepreneur farmers ...
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Donovan Campbell and Clinton Beckford
In recent years, Jamaica has been seriously affected by a number of extreme meteorological events. The one discussed here, Hurricane Dean, passed along the south coast of the island in August 2007, damaging crops and disrupting livelihood activities for ...
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Jean-Claude Bizimana, Belainew B. Yalew, Tewodros T. Assefa, Sisay A. Belay, Yonas M. Degu, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Manuel R. Reyes, P. V. Vara Prasad and Seifu A. Tilahun
Irrigation is widely considered a potential means to improve agricultural productivity, nutrition, and income, as farmers can carry out farming and production year-round. However, the feasibility of irrigation technologies is highly dependent on the long...
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Håkan Berg, Deogratias Mulokozi and Lars Udikas
Aquaculture production in Tanzania has increased in recent years, responding to an increased demand for fish, but the scale and productivity of smallholder aquaculture remains below the level needed to support significant sector growth in Tanzania. This ...
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Faruque-As-Sunny, Zuhui Huang and Taonarufaro Tinaye Pemberai Karimanzira
Proper nourishment is fundamental for satisfactory crop growth and production. However, for efficient crop production, it is important to understand the soil environment, to recognize the limitations of that environment, and to ameliorate them where poss...
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