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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"commercial agriculture"”.
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The Genesis II project integrated sea water farm : commercial agriculture and aquaculture
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1997.
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Increasing forest cover amidst expanding commercial agriculture: An agent-based simulation of markets and rural livelihoods in the Indian Himalayas
In contrast to many studies that link commercial agriculture with deforestation, analysis of household survey data and forest measurements in a group of 17 neighboring villages in the Indian Himalayas revealed a positive correlation between the level of commercial agriculture and forest cover. …
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WOMEN FARMERS AND SUSTAINABLE COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE IN JAFFNA, SRI LANKA: Changing farm operation practices in a dry-zone area affected by climate change
… of the gendered dynamics of sustainable agriculture practiced by women operating commercial-scale, sustainable farms in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, with a focus on women's agency and freedoms within the agricultural sector. Women operate 26% of farms in Jaffna, yet women are notably absent from …
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The socio-economic implications of conversion from commercial agriculture to private game farming: The case study of Cradock, a small town in the iNxuba Yethemba Municipality, Eastern Cape Province, South Africa
… of South Africa) of the recent conversions from commercial agriculture to private game farming (PGF). The study draws primarily on research conducted in the town, the history of which is rooted in the development and expansion of commercial agriculture that took place in the early 1800s. It is …
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Private property, capital and the state in the development of white commercial farming in South Africa, 1910-1986
… inhibited capitalist development of white commercial agriculture in South Africa between 1910 and 1936. From 1937, South Africa's nationalist government intervened in markets through marketing control boards to resolve capital constraints. Accumulation, liberal credit provision and …
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Investigation of phosphonate biosynthesis: I. Structure of dehydrophos II. Mechanism of hydroxyethylphosphonate dioxygenase
… in the clinic as antibacterials and in commercial agriculture as herbicides. In an effort to efficiently discover new natural product phosphonates, a multidisciplinary, collaborative program has been established at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… this study I argue that ecological problems in agriculture and animal husbandry were serious constraints in the economic development of the area. Colonial rulers were concerned about solving ecological problems facing agriculture. This concern facilitated the exploitation of natural resources. …
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Commercial farming and social change in Mkushi district, 1945-1975
… this study I argue that ecological problems in agriculture and animal husbandry were serious constraints in the economic development of the area. Colonial rulers were concerned about solving ecological problems facing agriculture. This concern facilitated the exploitation of natural resources. …
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Agricultural change and farmworker living standards in post-apartheid South Africa
Commercial agriculture in South Africa has been subject to accelerated regulatory and economic change in the time since the country’s democratization. This dissertation focusses on some of the interactions of these changes with the prospects of low-income farmworkers and farm dwellers through …
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Exploration of lived experiences of selected schools in production units in Kalomo district, southern province, Zambia.
… diseases, poor marketing and competition from commercial agriculture. The school managers had capacity to improve PU performance. PU was profitable enough to support PU and school activities such as boarding school feeding. PU had management structures. Regarding management practices, it was …
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Unmanned Aerial System for Monitoring Crop Status
… and the immense potential for UAS in commercial agriculture becomes immediately apparent. What the agriculture community needs is a cost effective method for the field-wide monitoring of crops in order to determine the precise application of fertilizers and pesticides to reduce their …
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Digital Business Ecosystems: solving pain points for smallholder farmers and identifying opportunities for service providers
… problems across different sectors including commercial agriculture, however, such developments have not received widespread adoption across smallholder farming. The objective of this study is to explore how the benefits of digital business ecosystems can solve critical challenges for …
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Characterising South Africa’s major dust sources
… sources are anthropogenic sources resulting from commercial agriculture in semi-arid regions. This study has demonstrated that surface sediments suitable for dust production are a mixture of fine material, silt (50µm) and coarse material, sand (2000µm) and it appears that all clusters in this …
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Healing the land : monitoring transformation and agricultural sustainability on a Western Cape land reform project
… monitoring in instituting a sustainable agriculture-based land reform programme in South Africa. The legacies of colonial and apartheid-era racial injustices have severely constrained access to land for agricultural production. Moreover, the impact of commercial agriculture on nature and …
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Engagement of Youth in Agricultural Entrepreneurship in Laos
… factor to a reduction of youth involvement in agriculture that poses a major concern for the sustainability of production systems worldwide. The integration of entrepreneurship in agricultural sectors (agripreneurship) in the developing world has been advocated as a powerful tool for promoting …
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Pesticide regulatory actions and the development of pest resistance: a dynamic bioeconomic model
… to pesticides can have severe impacts on both commercial agriculture and the environment. But many resistance problems are exacerbated because pest susceptibility is a dynamic, common-property resource subject to inefficient allocation by the market. Theoretically, the impact of resistance can …
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In name only: Water policy, the state, and ejidatario producers in northern Mexico
… technological package, and experience with commercial production. Mexico's water and agriculture policies are intended to allow the strongest, most efficient producers to become more competitive. I argue, however, that the water and agricultural reform package overall does not benefit …
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Gardens Are for Cash, Grain Is for Life: The Social Organization of Parallel Production Processes in a Rural Bamana Village (Mali)
… a case study of the social organization of agriculture in a rural Bamana community in central Mali. Research was conducted during 1992 and 1993-94 on the Manding Plateau. Using qualitative and quantitative data, I document a situation in which village residents use one organizational pattern …
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Understanding Responsible Investment in Private Equity: Challenges & Opportunities in Uganda
… vast resources that provide opportunities in commercial agriculture, tourism (Source of the Nile, home of Mountain Gorillas), and agroprocessing, among others. Developing countries like Uganda can tap into this opportunity given the low levels of development and employment that are well …
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