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Showing 1 to 20 of 62 for “"Smallholders"”.
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Overcoming the challenges of certification for independent smallholders in the palm oil industry
Independent smallholders' certification in the palm oil industry has been recognized as a significant challenge both in the academic literature and in the interviews conducted with experts prior to writing this thesis. According to both sources, a massive certification of independent smallholders …
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Going the Distance: The Impact of Distance to Market on Smallholders Crop and Technology Choices
Smallholder farmers in Honduras and the Trifinio region of Central America contend with poor roads and high transportation costs when making production decisions. Farmers select crop activities based on cost, revenue and profit but are constrained by labor requirements, cash requirements, food …
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A cross-cultural examination of measurement invariance of smallholders in Kenya, Uganda, Mali and Lesotho
Cross-cultural research requires tests of measurement invariance to determine if different populations have equivalent latent constructs. A psychometric assessment of the Agricultural Production Perspectives Scale (APPS) was necessary to determine the validity of the scale constructed and whether …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… technical and allocative efficiencies of 149 smallholders who have on average 3.0 hectare holdings selected from three Felda land settlement schemes, with 185 unassisted independent rubber smallholders with farms of approximately 1.0 hectare, in Melaka, Malaysia. It is found that Felda …
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Technical and allocative efficiency in Malaysian rubber smallholdings : a production function approach
… technical and allocative efficiencies of 149 smallholders who have on average 3.0 hectare holdings selected from three Felda land settlement schemes, with 185 unassisted independent rubber smallholders with farms of approximately 1.0 hectare, in Melaka, Malaysia. It is found that Felda …
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Agricultural Sector Policy Reforms: Implications for Poverty and the Environment in Malawi
… areas; (c) to reduce income inequality between smallholders and estate owners; (d) to ensure food security both at national and household levels. In this thesis, econometric and optimization techniques were employed to examine and explore the extent to which these objectives have been achieved. …
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Drivers of smallholder adoption and the intensity of conservation agriculture in the Masvingo District of Zimbabwe
… agriculture (CA) has been promoted among smallholders in Zimbabwe as a way of addressing challenges associated with poor soil fertility, low yields, and insufficient rainwater. The technique was introduced to smallholders as a manual technology. The expected benefits for adopters include …
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Socio-economic drivers of agricultural production in a transition economy: A case study of Hu Village, Sichuan Province, China
… standpoint, largely neglecting the agency of smallholders and sociocultural factors. To address the resulting literature gap, this thesis adopts an approach that combines political economy and cultural analysis through an in-depth case study of a rural community in southwest China. A …
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Wearing an amulet: Land titling and tenure (in) security in Tanzania
… Services (CORDS) – a pastoralist NGO, and the smallholders and pastoralists village residents, to achieve their different goals. The government of Tanzania are focussed on attracting inward investment, loans and development. Civil society groups promote titling for their members as a defensive …
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Global niche markets and local development : clientelism and fairtrade farmer organizations in Paraguay's sugar industry
… seeks to discover the conditions that permit smallholders to upgrade in global value chains while also enhancing the voice and autonomy they exercise within their communities. To do so, it examines global niche markets for environmentally and socially responsible products. Organic agriculture …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… the social and environmental perceptions of smallholders, community members, and activists in the region regarding the legacy of oil palm plantation establishment, and the changing economic, social and ecological realities of smallholders, both internal and external to the oil palm economy.
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Using micro-finance services to support climate change adaptation among small-scale farmers : identifying opportunities and challenges in southern Mozambique
… is to identify opportunities and needs to foster smallholders' adaptation through MFIs. The study is informed by a survey involving 13 MFIs operating in Southern Mozambique. This paper finds that although MFIs are aware that climate risks affect their services in regards to a wider rural economy, …
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The impact of staple crop value chain participation on the livelihoods of smallholder farmers in Nigeria and Malawi: changes in poverty, gender relations, and food security
… and inequalities. Little is known about how smallholders, particularly women, are involved in commercialisation involving staple crops and the resulting livelihood outcomes. This research addresses this gap in knowledge, focussing specifically on cassava commercialisation in Malawi and …
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Water use efficiency and influence of management policies, analysis for the small-scale irrigation sector in South Africa
… subsidies on inputs, the profitability of many smallholders was low. Achieving full cost recovery therefore appears to be problematic for the current users. In the next part the concept of sub-vector efficiencies is introduced as a measure for water use efficiency. The analysis shows that …
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The Structure and Nature of Vertical Co-ordination and Regulation Systems in the Kenyan Fresh Fruits and Vegetables Export Value Chain: Transaction Cost Approach
… to bear high transaction costs of contracting smallholders, hence enabling smallholders’ entry and stay in the value chain. Regulation was found to be through three pathways including; exporters-farmers, state regulatory and network regulation pathways. Importantly, the study found that …
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Microfinance and Mobile phones: an economic analysis of the perceptions, management and measurement of environmental risk in rural Kenya
… of climate risk within the context of smallholders in Kenya. It makes use of a unique data set comprising of nearly 200,000 adoptions of a pioneering weather index insurance that was bundled with a hybrid seed product and available over several seasons. The first empirical chapter …
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Marrying water and soil: adaptation to climate by a smallholder farmer in Zvishavane, rural Zimbabwe
… system. This study argues that innovations by smallholders play a complementary role to interventions by outsiders in the discourse of adaptation to climate in the drylands of southern Zimbabwe. Mr Phiri Maseko harvested water as a way of adapting to climate variability. I argue that he offered …
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Sustainable supply chains: Bridging the gap between environmental economics and operations management
… chapter focuses on alleviating poverty of rural smallholders. The project was built on findings from a research visit to the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) in Nairobi, the global environmental authority within the United Nations system, and from a continuous collaboration with the UNEP-WCMC, the …
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Envisioning Agribusiness: Land, Labour and Value in a time of Oil Palm Expansion in Indonesia
… workers, plantation company officials, smallholders, and on secondary research, this thesis scrutinises the forms of knowledge and practices that constitute large-scale oil palm agribusiness. While oil palm agribusiness produces economic opportunities for groups of individuals from …
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Economic analysis of coffee supply in Kenya
… estimates are obtained for estate producers and smallholders because of the fundamental differences in the technologies employed by these two groups. In addition, marketing chains for the two groups are different. Although our final reduced form supply function has the Nerlove's supply reduced …
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