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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Peasant Farmers"”.
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Comparative assessment of matching grants and microcredit interventions in improving livelihood of peasant farmer in Mazabuka District, Zambia
Financing peasant farmers using sustainable and effective approach can reduce poverty level significantly among peasant farmers. Development Institutions and government deploy various financing models to fund peasant farmers as a means of intervention to alleviate poverty. This study assesses and …
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“No Hay Guerra y No Hay Dinero” There is No War, and There is No Money: A Case Study of the Organic Coffee and Ecotourism Programs of UCA Miraflor, Nicaragua
… and South, what strategies can rural Southern peasants use to ensure the protection of their livelihoods and resources? The Union of Agribusiness Cooperatives (UCA) in Miraflor, Nicaragua has developed and implemented organic coffee and ecotourism programs designed to sustain local peoples’ …
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“No Hay Guerra y No Hay Dinero” There is No War, and There is No Money: A Case Study of the Organic Coffee and Ecotourism Programs of UCA Miraflor, Nicaragua
… and South, what strategies can rural Southern peasants use to ensure the protection of their livelihoods and resources? The Union of Agribusiness Cooperatives (UCA) in Miraflor, Nicaragua has developed and implemented organic coffee and ecotourism programs designed to sustain local peoples’ …
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Women, development and social change : the women of rural Malawi : a case study
… women with respect to the critical elements of peasant life which are usually defined as land, labour and social regime. Policy makers and planners design programmes and projects to integrate the peasantry into the free market economy which emphasizes productivity, technology and cash returns. …
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genetic Attributes of Bambara Groundnut[Voandzeia subterranea (L)] Thouars
… (L)] Thouars is a grain legume crop grown by peasant farmers in Zambia. The crop has been found to be useful in many farming systems as it contributes to human nutrition and soil amendments. Unfortunately, its full potential has not been fully exploited in Zambia. In order to develop cultivars …
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genetic Attributes of Bambara Groundnut[Voandzeia subterranea (L)] Thouars
… (L)] Thouars is a grain legume crop grown by peasant farmers in Zambia. The crop has been found to be useful in many farming systems as it contributes to human nutrition and soil amendments. Unfortunately, its full potential has not been fully exploited in Zambia. In order to develop cultivars …
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From grassroots to global: unintended consequences of a Bolivian quinoa economy
… a counterargument to the claims that Bolivian peasant farmers are acting in contradiction with their political support of food sovereignty by participating in a global quinoa economy. This research gives agency to the farmers by reframing the Bolivian quinoa story to show how farmers succeeded …
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The Lumpa Church: Its socio-economic impact in Lundazi District in Eastern Province of Zambia,1955-1995
… to revamp agricultural production, some affected peasant farmers were provided with seeds and fertilizers. Conversely, such provisions were inadequate. Also, the Zambian government collaborated with the governments of Malawi and the Congo in order to help ex-Lumpa refugees resettle in various …
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The role of the cashew nut industry in the socio-economic development of Mongu district of western province, Zambia, 1972-2011.
… The study notes that in spite of this hiccup, peasant farmers in Mongu were resilient enough to continue growing cashew nuts. In this way, it refutes the notion that the privatisation process of parastatal companies in Zambia was wholly destructive. Additionally, the study examines the …
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The Lumpa Church: Its socio-economic impact in Lundazi District in Eastern Province of Zambia,1955-1995
… to revamp agricultural production, some affected peasant farmers were provided with seeds and fertilizers. Conversely, such provisions were inadequate. Also, the Zambian government collaborated with the governments of Malawi and the Congo in order to help ex-Lumpa refugees resettle in various …
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Re-Constructing Climate Change: Discourses of the Emerging Movement for Climate Justice
… four individual sub-discourses: global, peasant-oriented, Indigenous, and civil rights. Focussed on climate-related inequities in developing countries of the Southern Hemisphere, the global discourse constructs climate change as a problem of the structures and logic of the globalized …
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Social patterns influencing the adoption of mobile phones in the farming community
… in agricultural society. It targeted small farmers in the African society, and its population was drawn from Tanzania. The study was conducted with the knowledge that small (peasant) farmers make up a large component of the African population. Enhancing the economic performance of farmers …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… goods are traded, placing new demands on farmers around the world. In developing countries, smallholder and peasant farmers lack many of the resources needed to upgrade their production capacities and meet new global quality standards, making them vulnerable to marginalization and …
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Coccidiosis in Zambian goats and the life cycle of eimerian species
… drought. Most goats found in Zambia are kept by peasant -farmers under simple village management. In this study, ten kids with ages ranging from 5.5 to 2(3 weeks and, pre-exposed to natural infection with coccidiosis were used. They were weaned, divided into two groups, and kept in a c o n f i …
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Coccidiosis in Zambian goats and the life cycle of eimerian species
… drought. Most goats found in Zambia are kept by peasant -farmers under simple village management. In this study, ten kids with ages ranging from 5.5 to 2(3 weeks and, pre-exposed to natural infection with coccidiosis were used. They were weaned, divided into two groups, and kept in a c o n f i …
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A study of the agricultural extension service in the United States (North Carolina) and the agricultural extension service in Ghana
… not been successful in changing the life of the peasant farmers and needs to be improved if agriculture is to be successful in Ghana. It is now believed by the Ghanain policy makers that agriculture is a more stable and everlasting base for the economy and again needs to be a primary source of …
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A comparative analysis of the Cooperative Extension Service of the United States (Virginia) and the Agricultural Extension Service of Nigeria (Anambra)
… not been successful in changing the life of the peasant farmers and needs to be improved if agriculture is to be successful in Nigeria. Nigeria's economy has gone down within the last year due to the reduced price of oil on which the nation has built its wealth since the mid-1960's. It is now …
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The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century
… Settsu, in which the majority of cases were of peasant farmers having subsidiary employment in industry, commerce or transport. The by-employment pattern of women in the Yangtze Valley is slightly different in that women devoted more of their working time to domestic industries than to …