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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Rice farmers"”.
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Adoption and Impacts of IPM for Cambodian Rice Farmers
… of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) adoption for rice in Cambodia. Extent of adoption and characteristics of adopters are discovered. Farmers are considered high adopters of IPM if they used two non-pesticide or minimal-pesticide practices to control rice insect, disease, weed, or rodent pests in …
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Balancing economic and environmental sustainability for small-scale rice farmers in Peru
… economic and environmental sustainability in rice production systems is a global challenge for which integrated research efforts are needed to provide insights for achieving food production and environmental goals. In this study we analyzed data from surveys applied to 65 rice farmers in Peru. …
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… at the local level arguing that smallholder farmers are not robot but active individual who exercise their agency purposively or impulsively depending on conditions and the assets available at their disposition as well as their ability to navigate the intricate power dynamic inherent at local …
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Essays on the Thai Economy
… paper analyses the effect of the government's rice pledging scheme. The insurgency in the southern region of Thailand, including Yala, Pattani, and Narathiwat, and some parts of Songkhla province, began in 2004. As the end of 2017, the total number of deaths was 6,686 persons, including …
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The Germans of Roberts Cove, Louisiana: German Rice Cultivation and the Making of a German-American Community in Acadia Parish, 1881-1917
… for grazing cattle, the Germans soon discovered rice could easily be cultivated in large amounts. Along with their success as rice farmers in Roberts Cove, Louisiana, these Germans soon involved themselves in politics and engaged one another and the surrounding community in numerous court cases. …
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Adapting to Water Scarcity: Effects of Irrigation Management
In developing countries, farmers are dealing with climatic changes by adapting their agricultural practices. Little work has investigated the direct impact of structural variables (e.g., central vs. local management of irrigation water, location of village), psychological variables (e.g., risk …
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Against the Grain: A History and Policy Analysis of Rice, Water and the Edible Landscape in Egypt
… In this dissertation, I explore the history of rice cultivation in Egypt and its regulatory context under water stress conditions as a tool for legitimizing and promoting specific claims to water use over others. I use the case study of rice as a lens to examine the role of power in agri-food …
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Eliciting farmer preferences for rice varietal trait improvements using an experimental methodology based on investment games
Rice value chains are changing rapidly in Asia, partly due to changing consumption patterns, and also as a result of increasingly stringent quality standards imposed on producers. Rice farmers and other value chain actors must now consider rice varieties that are suitable for unique production …
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An assessment of pesticide use, contamination and impact on the environment and the health of people in Sierra Leone
… the biggest challenges faced by Sierra Leonean farmers is pest control. Birds, insects, rodents, crustaceans and other organisms can drastically reduce yields. In order to prevent these organisms from destroying their crops, farmers use pesticides. However there are reports that these chemicals …
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Local institutions in common property resources: a case study of community-based watershed management in Northern Thailand
… from the need for water of the lowland rice farmers. This dependence on watersheds for a sustainable livelihood brought the peasants together to form CBWM institutions to regulate joint use, sustain yields, and exclude non-members. The emergence and continued strength of a CBWM system is …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… government policies have been central in raising rice production and export. However, the relevance of the ‘rice first’ policy and the place of smallholder agriculture have recently been questionedin the discussion on Vietnam’s agricultural development strategy. The objective of this thesis is to …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… government policies have been central in raising rice production and export. However, the relevance of the ‘rice first’ policy and the place of smallholder agriculture have recently been questionedin the discussion on Vietnam’s agricultural development strategy. The objective of this thesis is to …
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Psychological insights for sustainable agricultural transformation
… Thailand, with the majority being smallholders, farmers are under pressure to reduce emissions from their operations which constitute 15.2% of the country’s total emissions while simultaneously facing financial struggles with incomes below the national poverty line. Data reveals a substantial …
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Gains and Losses in Ecosystem Services: Trade-off and Efficiency Perspectives
… and environmental performance of land users (rice farmers, South Korea). Paper 7 examines the efficiency and determinants of reforestation with a native tree species (Vietnam). The findings of these examples supplement the conventional ecosystem service trade-off analysis in Part A as they …
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The Impacts of Climate Change on Rice Production and Small Farmers' Adaptation: A Case of Guyana
… change is having an overall negative impact on rice production worldwide. The vast majority of climate change impacts on rice production result from fluctuations in precipitation and temperature, which lead to flooding, water scarcity, and increases in insects and pests, diseases, and weeds. As …