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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Subsistence farmers"”.
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Food for Talk: Addressing barriers to communicating agricultural knowledge to subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste.
… these barriers could be overcome in respect of subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste, a significant proportion of whom have low levels of literacy and poor access to conventional mass media channels. The first part of this research was concerned with how communication is best positioned in …
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Food for Talk: Addressing barriers to communicating agricultural knowledge to subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste.
… these barriers could be overcome in respect of subsistence farmers in Timor-Leste, a significant proportion of whom have low levels of literacy and poor access to conventional mass media channels. The first part of this research was concerned with how communication is best positioned in …
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Flood hazards and preparedness of subsistence farmers in the Vhembe District municipality in the Limpopo province
… globally, particularly the agricultural sector. Farmers in Africa continue to face challenges in developing resilience to floods, which adversely affects agriculture. This research aims to investigate the flood awareness and preparedness of subsistence farmers in the Vhembe District municipality. …
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Use of mobile phones by subsistence farmers in the Kingdom of Eswatini: a design science research
… information is one of the key ways of assisting farmers to improve their agricultural output, gain access to markets and generate income. Governments, NGOs, Universities and other institutions have volumes of information that can benefit farmers, but lack the means to timeously and easily share …
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Mycotoxin health risk assessment modelling among maize-subsistence farmers living in Centane, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… are known to contaminate maize crops from subsistence farming areas in Centane, Eastern Cape Province (EC), South Africa. The daily consumption of home-grown maize in these areas has resulted in FB exposure of five to ten times above the recommended provisional maximum tolerable daily …
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Assessing the impact of climate change on crop productivity of subsistence farmers in Namibia: A case study of the Omusati region
… impact of climate change on crop production for subsistence farmers in the Omusati region. The study was based on quantitative methodological approaches. Data was collected through questionnaires with structured questions that were administered to 100 house head farmers, randomly selected from …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… forces negatively affect many small-scale farmers in developing countries, resulting in widespread micronutrient malnutrition and environmental degradation. This study explores the connections between these issues, and the efficacy of using participatory education on sustainable agriculture …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… forces negatively affect many small-scale farmers in developing countries, resulting in widespread micronutrient malnutrition and environmental degradation. This study explores the connections between these issues, and the efficacy of using participatory education on sustainable agriculture …
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A Bio-Economic Model of Long-Run Striga Control with an Application to Subsistence Farming in Mali
… lands are most severely affected. Nonetheless, subsistence farmer have yet to adopt seemingly beneficial control practices to any appreciable degree. This paper develops a bio-economic model capable of identifying: (1) affordable, effective Striga control practices consistent with the resource …
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The ten years after the Civil War: life and politics in the Continental Divide counties of southwest Virginia
… during a period of economic struggle for small subsistence farmers. In order to better their marketing, the citizens resorted to a variety of internal improvement schemes, but it was not until the unsolicited Republican capital of Philadelphia businessmen invaded that a major railroad link was …
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The Contribution of Subsistence Farming to Rural Household Food Systems: A Case Study of Mamokgadi Village
Subsistence agriculture is regarded as a primary strategy adopted by the rural households for increasing their access to food for their families. Food system options for rural households are mainly through own production and purchase from markets. In some cases people require more than what they …
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Design, build, and characterization of a platform for testing bio-inspired, pressure-compensating valves
… the low-cost, high water efficiency needs of subsistence farmers in developing countries has already begun through proof-of-concept prototypes and testing; This project builds on the early-stage testing. A stable test set-up, designed for easy use and repeatability was needed in order to …
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“The Season of Famine” as a Challenge to Food Security in Northern Rural Togo: Addressing Seasonal Hunger through Household Coping Strategies
… presents insights into the lives of rural subsistence farmers, the role of population pressures, and the effectiveness of both international and national development work. Originally I wanted to identify positive deviants who were food secure living in the Dankpen prefecture. I conducted …
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“The Season of Famine” as a Challenge to Food Security in Northern Rural Togo: Addressing Seasonal Hunger through Household Coping Strategies
… presents insights into the lives of rural subsistence farmers, the role of population pressures, and the effectiveness of both international and national development work. Originally I wanted to identify positive deviants who were food secure living in the Dankpen prefecture. I conducted …
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Wick irrigation systems for subsistence farming
… has been noted as a key method to help lift subsistence farmers out of poverty. With water scarity growing around the globe and lack of access to electricity still prevalent in rural areas, the need to develop an energy efficient irrigation system that simultaneous limits wasted water while …
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Preliminary investigation of the natural contamination of agricultural crops with selected mycotoxins in northern rural South Africa (Limpopo and Mpumalanga Provinces)
Subsistence farmers may contribute significantly to food production, food security, and employment in South Africa. However poor storage practices and contamination with mycotoxins, particularly fumonisins and aflatoxins impacts adversely on production, food safety and food security. Mycotoxins are …
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Local land use on Borneo: applications of indigenous knowledge systems and natural resource utilization among the Benuaq Dayak of Kalimantan, Indonesia
… community reserves. Because the Benuaq Dayak are subsistence farmers, small-varied land parcels are used to cultivate a high variety of resources. Village household surveys were conducted to identify the varying types of resources utilized and agricultural activities. Land surveys and biodiversity …
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Acacia karoo and its effects on the succession of dune forests in the Eastern Shores, Kwazulu-Natal
… as a result of the abandonment of fields by subsistence farmers in a dune forest matrix were studied. Previous authors have considered A. karoo to be part of a successional mechanism which leads towards a climax forest canopy (Mentis and Ellery, 1994; von Maltitz et al, 1996). This succession …
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Empirical essays on finance and development
… weather conditions may constrain investment by subsistence farmers and lead to inefficient production choices, the first chapter evaluates whether insuring farmers against such risks alters resource allocation decisions. In particular I consider the effects of a Mexican government disaster …
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