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Showing 1 to 20 of 293 for “"Smallholder"”.
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Exploring Smallholder Field Delineation
… data is more readily available. In contrast, smallholder regions—where fields are smaller, more irregularly shaped, and often lack precise geospatial labels—remain underrepresented in both data and model performance. This thesis investigates model architectures, loss functions, and learning …
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Multiple ecosystem services in smallholder agriculture
… of multiple ecosystem services relevant to smallholder farmer livelihoods in the tropics, the production of wood and livestock forage and the structure and fertility of soils were examined in grazed and improved fallows in western Kenya. The objectives were to investigate fine-scale …
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Three essays challenging assumptions about smallholder farmers
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Collective Action and Everyday Politics of Smallholder Farmers in Ugbawka: Examining Local Realities and Struggles of Smallholder Rice Farmers
… participant observation. The study reveals that smallholder collective action is not best fitted into formal institutional arrangement but takes place within a complex and intricate process that involves interaction with diversity of institutions and actors. Equally, the interactions that occur …
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Climate-change adaptation among Smallholder farmers in zambia
… diversification and irrigation in order to help smallholder farmers adapt to the climate. Despite these efforts, observation suggests suboptimal levels of adaptation. In three substantive chapters, this thesis investigates the strategies smallholder farmers use to adapt to variability in …
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Incentive design for quality investment by smallholder producers
The food safety problem has been challenging the traditional operating model of Chinese agricultural supply chain. In the recent decades, more and more agribusinesses and cooperatives in China have adopted contract farming to strengthen food safety control during the sourcing process. Meanwhile, …
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The Economics of Smallholder Households in Central Haiti
Smallholder households in Haiti face many natural resource management challenges. Agricultural production occurs on deforested hillsides prone to erosion. Charcoal is in an important source of income, and woodfuel stocks are often over-exploited. Donor-funded projects and non- governmental …
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Factors affecting efficiency of smallholder cotton producers in Zambia
… and has the potential to reduce rural poverty of smallholder farmers through increased food security and household income. However, Zambia and other Sub-Saharan Africa countries are faced with low agricultural productivity and that undermines the potential the sector has of reducing poverty. …
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Blockchain-enabled weather index crop insurance for smallholder farmers
… to tackle some of the challenges faced by smallholder farmers when using conventional crop insurance methods is done. These challenges include long claim cycles, costly claim disputes and paper-heavy policies. The prototype weather index crop insurance platform improves the efficiency of …
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The effect of cash constraints on smallholder farmer revenue
Many smallholder farmers in developing countries struggle to make ends meet. We develop a model that examines how markets catering to numerous smallholder farmers reach an equilibrium, while incorporating real world challenges that smallholder farmers face, namely a lack of long term planning and …
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Smallholder market access: the case of groundnut sector in Malawi
This thesis focussed on assessing smallholder groundnut farmers and traders’ access to markets through quality improvement and also, determine the socio-economic factors that influence groundnut farmers when deciding to adopt quality management techniques and the extent/or level of involvement. The …
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Transformation for Smallholder Farmers: Pathways for Agricultural Development in Rwanda
Transformation for Smallholder Farmers: Pathways for Agricultural Development in Rwanda Jolly Dusabe This thesis asks: “What are the drivers of smallholder agricultural growth in Rwanda?” Since 2000, Rwanda has recorded unprecedented year on year growth in agricultural production, averaging more …
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Factors affecting access to finance by Smallholder Farmers in Zambia
… the gap and assess variables directly related to smallholder farmers access to finance. It further examines the dynamism of access to finance depending on location, gender and transport infrastructure. The data employed in the study was obtained from a survey conducted in 2013 by IAPRI and UNZA …
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Climate Change and Seed Security Among Smallholder Farmers in Northern Ghana
<p>Smallholder agriculture is highly susceptible to climate variability and change. According to recent projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, this sensitivity would likely increase in the coming decades, with more erratic rainfall, prolonged dry periods, shorter growing …
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Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
This dissertation explores current challenges facing the adoption of agricultural technologies and practices in developing countries. I focus on climate-resilient technologies that are particularly important. The studies cover (i) the evaluation of the effects of a country-wide market-smart input …
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Malawi Farm Input Subsidy Programme - impact on income of smallholder farmers
… FISP on income levels and food security of rural smallholder farmers in Malawi. The analysis showed that about 82 percent of smallholder farmers live in rural areas, about 75 percent of them were males, 71 percent were married, 70 percent did not go to school and 69 percent benefited from FISP. In …
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User-centered design of a fertilizer recommendation system for smallholder farmers
Declining soil health is a major problem in India, affecting nearly 120 million hectares of land constituting 37% of the total geographic area. Soil degradation poses a significant threat to India's food security, due to its negative impact on long-term crop yields, which are crucial for feeding a …
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A polyperiod risk programming analysis of smallholder farm development in Kenya
Educators in local school systems who have been assigned the task of developing programs for gifted children often experience difficulty deciding what giftedness is. This difficulty stems from the fact that neither researchers nor educators agree as to which of a myriad of abilities actually …
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Smallholder women empowerment: the case of Norwegian agricultural programme in Senanga, Zambia.
… donors are increasingly targeting women smallholder farmers in poverty reduction and food security programmes in rural areas. Despite increased focus of donors towards improving livelihoods of women smallholder farmers, evidence shows that benefits accruing to women farmers in development …
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Investigation of methods adopted by smallholder broiler farmers adapting to climate change
… Even though broiler farming is of great benefit, smallholder farmers face challenges, climate change being one of them. The aim of the study was to investigate methods that smallholder broiler farmers have adopted to adapt to climate change. The study was conducted in the Thulamela and Musina …
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