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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"crop diversification"”.
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Impacts of Crop Diversification and Household Resilience on Welfare and Child Nutrition in Senegal
… and have limited formal risk-management options, crop diversification and household resilience are central strategies for protecting welfare. Although both are widely promoted as risk-management strategies, evidence remains limited on three fronts: the magnitude of welfare and nutritional gains …
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Climate-change adaptation among Smallholder farmers in zambia
… practices such as conservation farming, crop 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 …
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A comparison of optimum grain hedging strategies using commodity options and futures contracts: an application of portfolio theory
… the hedging tools given various location, crop mix, and levels of financial leverage. The study used portfolio theory where hedging strategies were simulated over time and minimum-variance hedge levels determined. Crop diversification and financial leverage were addressed using Quadratic …
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Drivers of adoption and impacts of smallholder climate-resilient agricultural technologies
… purchase and use of modern agricultural inputs, crop diversification, farm productivity, income generation, food security, the distance to agro-dealers and program delivery timing, by leveraging a recent policy change in Zambia, (ii) an investigation of the factors that cause the dynamic adoption …
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Risk management in crop farming
… the financial impacts caused by natural hazards, crop insurance is an appropriate tool (Di Falco et al., 2014). In addition to crop insurance purchase, to maximize agriculture’s mitigation potential regarding to weather-related risks, there is a need for investments in technological innovation and …
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"When He Comes Home, Then He Can Decide": Male Out-Migration, the Feminization of Agriculture, and Integrated Pest Management in the Nepali Mid-Hills
… use and value their land through increasing crop diversification. Agricultural decision-making processes related to these different forces extend beyond the household, and participation in community spaces through the IPM project may contest traditional gender norms. We contend that the …
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Household food security and dietary diversity in the context of an agricultural and market development program in Guatemala
… contextual settings (household), resources, crop diversification and production practices; 4) Empowerment strategies: women and general. P4P promotes household food security and dietary diversity among smallholder farmers by enabling four PIPs: income, agricultural productivity via crop …
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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
… be a disproportionate focus on non-traditional crops grown for specialty export markets. This paper analyzes how small farmers from the Las Pilas region of El Salvador competed against imports to become potato, cabbage and tomato suppliers to wholesalers in the national wholesale market, the …
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Assessing the impacts of climate change and adaptation strategies on smallholder farming in the Vhembe District, South Africa
… have affected local farmers’ livelihood and crop production. In the Vhembe District of South Africa’s Limpopo Province, smallholder farming predominates and its vulnerability to climate change has increased for the past decades. This study, therefore, assesses the impact of climate change and …
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An Analysis of crop farmer's resilience to climate change in the Thulamela Local Municipality of Vhembe District, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… The resilient strategies used by farmers were crop diversification, soil conservation practice and crop management, cover crops and rainwater harvesting, fertilizer application and the use of resilient crop varieties. Again, the study revealed that the most common factors influencing the …
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Evaluation of rootstock and crop load effects on the performance of `Gibson Golden Delicious' and three scab-resistant apple cultivars
… establish an orchard and mechanization of grain crops, many farmers changed to corn and soybeans that are less vulnerable to low temperature injury. However, current changing economic conditions and food sourcing policies are prompting farmers to consider crop diversification including apple …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… three chapters. Chapter 4 examines the merit of crop diversification in rural Vietnam. Chapter 5 investigates the effect of nonfarm participation on household production choices. Chapter 6 studiesthe effect that land reforms directed towards land consolidation have on labour allocation and …
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Policy reforms for smallholder agriculture: an analysis using household data for Vietnam
… three chapters. Chapter 4 examines the merit of crop diversification in rural Vietnam. Chapter 5 investigates the effect of nonfarm participation on household production choices. Chapter 6 studiesthe effect that land reforms directed towards land consolidation have on labour allocation and …
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An assessment of the participation of women and men in the community market conservation programme in the Luangwa Valley Region
… access to ready markets, access to foodstuffs,crop diversification and both women and men obtained the same prices for the produce they sold.However, the study established gender inequalities in various aspects of the programme.For instance, more men than women dominated in the programme's …
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An assessment of the participation of women and men in the community market conservation programme in the Luangwa Valley Region
… access to ready markets, access to foodstuffs,crop diversification and both women and men obtained the same prices for the produce they sold.However, the study established gender inequalities in various aspects of the programme.For instance, more men than women dominated in the programme's …
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The Economics of Tobacco Production and Feasible Alternatives in Uganda
… capable of responding to staple food and cash crop prices, production value, and other non-economic incentives, as implicitly expected by economic theory. The tobacco output supply is strongly associated with economic incentives such as an export or cash crop price as opposed to a staple food …
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Botanical Resource Use in the Bronze and Iron Age of the Central Eurasian Mountain/Steppe Interface: Decision Making in Multiresource Pastoral Economies
… possible intensification through irrigation and crop diversification. The shift toward agriculture was not uniform throughout Semirech'ye; at sites such as Begash and Mukri, economies were much more herd animal-based. Occupants of these sites may have cultivated small-scale, low-investment plots …
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The impact and the efficiency of the fertilizer support programme(FSP) on food security among small scale farmers in rural Zambia-A case study of Chongwe District
… of fertiliser by small-scale farmers, poor crop marketing arrangements, and lack of funds by some small-scale farmers to meet the required contribution of 40 percent payment. Other challenges identified were non-usage of satellite depots, poor feeder road network, lack of Animal Draught …
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The impact and the efficiency of the fertilizer support programme(FSP) on food security among small scale farmers in rural Zambia-A case study of Chongwe District
… of fertiliser by small-scale farmers, poor crop marketing arrangements, and lack of funds by some small-scale farmers to meet the required contribution of 40 percent payment. Other challenges identified were non-usage of satellite depots, poor feeder road network, lack of Animal Draught …
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An analysis of environmental data and corresponding stakeholder perceptions with respect to climate change and crop production in Nigeria.
… how environmental forcing influenced crop productivity over a 30-yearperiod. Decadal variations of key staple food crops were assessed based on annual yields, and directly compared with environmental components: precipitation, humidity and extreme temperatures. Eight States that are …
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