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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Small Farmer"”.
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Learning from collective experience : successful small farmer associations in northeast Brazil
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1993.
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Small farmer participation in the institutional credit market : a Thai case study
… in developing countries tends to by-pass the small farmers to whom it is frequently directed. In undertaking this task, a number of secondary research objectives are pursued, notably, the measurement of credit demand and the investigation of credit-rationing procedures.The case for RCPs is …
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Modifications of Small-Farmer Credit in the Maisan 77 Program of the Philippines
… improve the financial and economic well-being of farmer-borrowers.
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Modeling Whole Farm Systems to Enhance Beginning Small Farmer Success in Southwest Virginia
The number of very small farms (<10 acres) is increasing and beginning farmers (in practice for <10 years) are more likely to run them. Very small farms are typically complex systems in which the farmer manages both production of a diverse array of crops and marketing of crops directly to consumers …
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Socioeconomic stratification and differentiation of the modern peasantry: a longitudinal analysis of small farmers in Röndonia, Brazil
… changes raise questions about the extent of small farmer participation in capitalist economies, whether these farmers are a socioeconomically homogenous group, and about their future viability as distinct social and economic formations. The primary focus of this micro-level analysis is to …
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Mais Bonito Da Região: the Cacao-Producing Region of Cachoeira Alta, Bahia, and the Transition From Wage Labor to Small Farming
… from a laborer to a self-sufficient, small farmer, requires an agricultural and market-based knowledge to which few wage laborers are privy. Small-scale farmers suffer shortcomings within regional and global markets because of their inability to respond to increased demand due to a …
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Why aren't we looking for lessons about producer-buyer relationships and niche markets in non-export cases? : farmers and wholesalers in El Salvador's central wholesale market
… trends in the development field slow resolving small farmers' difficult entry into marketplaces. The first is that in seeking to enhance small farmer competitiveness, analysts and policy makers tend to look towards production rather than marketing improvements, missing growth linkages to other …
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The Expanding Ecology of a Hot Commodity: A Century of Changes in the New Mexican Chile Pepper
… local and regional crop grown by many, small scale growers into an industrial commodity on a global market. With this transformation, the ecology of the chile pepper has shifted and expanded. The actors in this ecology- the growers, the research scientists, the manufacturers of …
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Politics and production control : American farmers and the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938.
… designed improve the plight of the American farmer. In 1936, the Supreme Court invalidated the earliest of these programs, the 1934 Agricultural Adjustment Act, and two years after that decision, Roosevelt called a special session of Congress to enact replacement legislation for the earlier …