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Mengshuai Zhu, Chen Shen, Yajun Tian, Jianzhai Wu and Yueying Mu
Facing the changes in China?s agricultural products marketing channel, smallholder farmers with different characteristics choose various strategies to obtain more benefits. To analyze factors affecting smallholder farmers? marketing channel choice, we cl...
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Imam Fauzi Syamsu
Pág. 114 - 127
Trees are important for rural people livelihood, because of its function as savings for urgent need. The recognition function of trees has increase by using it as collateral to access loan. The aim of this study is to discover the household and smallhold...
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Firna Varina,Sri Hartoyo,Nunung Kusnadi,Amzul Rifin
Pág. 89 - 93
The main objective of the present study is to analyze the technical efficiency (TE) and evaluate its determinant in smallholder oil palm farming in Indonesia. The stochastic frontier analysis was applied to 20,409 selected oil p...
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Andi Irawan
Pág. 190 - 201
This study aimed to analyze the impact of market The data used in the study are cross-section primary data related to the household economy of oil palm smallholder farmers. Data collection was carried out in three provinces of production center of ...
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Tariro Mafirakurewa, Abbyssinia Mushunje and Siphe Zantsi
Agriculture is an important sector in Zimbabwe?s economy. More than 70% of the population are smallholders relying on agriculture. To support agriculture, Zimbabwe?s government introduced a Targeted Command Agriculture Programme (TCAP), in terms of which...
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Simon Alibu, Morish Obura, James Ekebu, Doreen Nampamya, Jimmy Lamo, Godfrey Asea and Tae-Seon Park
Limited farmer access to quality seeds of improved varieties and knowledge gaps in good agronomic practices are the major factors limiting rice productivity among smallholder farmers in Uganda. Promoting high yielding aromatic rice varieties alongside go...
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Lin Crase
For many decades, participatory approaches, with their emphasis on farmer-centred management, have been presented as panaceas for overcoming weaknesses in irrigation systems. Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) has assumed such a high status that i...
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Yuan Fence Irala, Sucihatiningsih Dian Wisika Prajanti, Kardoyo Kardoyo
Pág. 65 - 75
This study aimed to develop a model for the development of copra farmers? empowerment through institutional training for farmer business groups which process coconut derivative products in Asimiro Village, Loloda Sub-district, Halmahera Regency. The stud...
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Irene Bayiyana, Anton Bua, Alfred Ozimati, Johnny Mugisha, John Colvin and Christopher Abu Omongo
Cassava is the second most important source of calories in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is subject to economically important yield losses from viral diseases, including cassava brown streak disease and cassava mosaic disease. These diseases are vectored by cas...
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Mary Nyasimi, Philip Kimeli, George Sayula, Maren Radeny, James Kinyangi and Catherine Mungai
Smallholder farmers in East Africa need information and knowledge on appropriate climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, technologies, and institutional innovations in order to effectively adapt to changing climatic conditions and cope with climate va...
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Hory Chikez, Dirk Maier, Sigurdur Olafsson and Steve Sonka
Several studies have identified a host of factors to be considered when attempting to reduce food postharvest loss (PHL). However, very few studies have ranked those factors by their importance in driving PHL. This study used the Random Forest model to r...
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Pamellah A. Asule, Collins Musafiri, George Nyabuga, Wambui Kiai, Felix K. Ngetich and Christoph Spurk
Soil fertility decline is a significant drawback to food and nutritional security in sub-Saharan Africa. However, information and knowledge barriers seriously impede the adoption, effective use, and scaling up of soil fertility management innovations, es...
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Oladimeji Ibrahim Alarape,(Centre for Sustainable Development, University of Ibadan, NigeriaNigeria)
Pág. 142 - 155
Cassava value addition efforts suffer a serious setback in Nigeria despite huge production potentials due to a weak linkage between producers and processors. Psaltry cassava out-grower scheme thus emerged as a model to facilitate the needed linkage and b...
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Mthokozisi K. Zuma, Unathi Kolanisi and Albert T. Modi
Biofortification interventions have the potential to combat malnutrition. This review explored the use of provitamin A-biofortified maize (PVABM) as a vitamin A deficiency (VAD) reduction agricultural-based strategy. Maize has been identified as one of t...
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Brian Sims and Josef Kienzle
Smallholder farmers are the main producers of the world?s food and they will have to increase production by up to 100 percent by 2050 to feed the growing population. This must be achieved while preserving natural resources and that is why sustainable agr...
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Lindah Muzangwa, Pearson Nyari Stephano Mnkeni and Cornelius Chiduza
Conservation agriculture (CA) can sustainably address soil degradation and improve crop yields. However, the success of CA amongst South African smallholder farmers is not known. The aims of the study were to find out: (1) the extent of CA practice by th...
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