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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Farmers' Perception"”.
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Assessing Factors Affecting Adoption of Agricultural Technologies: The Case of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in Kumi District, Eastern Uganda
… in controlling pests, and their adoption by farmers can reduce the use of pesticides and their adverse impacts. The introduction of IPM CRSP activities in Uganda to institutionalize IPM methods focused on priority crops in the country. This study analyzed adoption of eight IPM technologies on …
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Missouri Farmers' Perceptions of Climate Change, Adaptation Strategies and the Adoption and Diffusion of Market-Oriented Risk Management Strategies
… a mixed methods approach, investigates Missouri farmers’ perceptions of climate change and variability in relation to their adoption of adaptation strategies. Using a combination of geospatial and statistical analysis, it examines the similarities and differences in on-farm and off-farm …
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Food Security, Climate Change, and Poverty Reduction in Rural Nepal
… the following study investigates effects of farmers perception of climate change on their willingness to pay (WTP) for a weather index-based crop insurance. The study considers two crop insurance products: product A only insures rice and B insures both rice and livestock. We use the Biprobit …
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Assessing the impact of climate change on crop productivity of subsistence farmers in Namibia: A case study of the Omusati region
… change on crop production for subsistence farmers in the Omusati region. The study was based on quantitative methodological approaches. Data was collected through questionnaires with structured questions that were administered to 100 house head farmers, randomly selected from the Etayi and …
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Pied crow in South Africa: integrating ecological and social dimensions for effective management
… interventions from conservationists, farmers, scientists, and the public. A workshop conducted by BirdLife South Africa emphasized the urgency for research into diverse facets of Pied Crow behaviour and its impacts. Given the species' expansion and its socio-ecological impact, my …
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Factors Influencing Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
… sustainable development programs. Empowering farmers to increase productivity by educating them to use conservation agriculture (CA), a more sustainable alternative to the traditional slash-and-burn agricultural practice, could contribute to reducing vulnerability, alleviate food insecurity, …
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Recent changes in land use and productivity in agro-pastoral Inner Mongolia, China
… persists, rendering livelihood insecure for farmers. Although statistics for cultivated land area are inferior the area of cultivated land seems to be increasing mainly in the pastoral counties. Farmers acknowledge the importance of the 30-year contract on cultivated land introduced in 1997 …