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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"farming households"”.
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Adoption of Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices and Their Impacts on the Welfare of Livestock Farming Households in Pakistan
… practices, and their welfare impacts on farm households. The study first examines the determinants of livestock farmers’ adoption of CSA practices and their impact on food security and household income by using a multinomial endogenous switching regression (MESR) model. The findings show that …
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Moral Economy Meets Global Economy: Negotiating Risk, Vulnerability and Sustainable Livelihood among Shrimp Farming Households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
… process of social differentiation among shrimp farming households in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. I use the ways these households perceive and experience risk and vulnerability as a lens for understanding their situation. The study finds that farming households across the socio-economic spectrum have …
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The Stabilizing Effects of Sesame Oil Extraction Technologies on Seasonal Fluctuations in Food Consumption and Nutritional Status of Rural Farming Households in The Gambia
… Production project. The study involved 120 rural households: 40 households with access to motorized expeller technology (Expeller group) for sesame oil extraction, 37 households with access to manual ram press technology (Press group), and 43 households with access to both technologies …
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An assessment of the contribution of peri-urban agriculture on household food security in Tongaat, eThekwini Municipality
… random sampling was employed, and a total of 208 households (109 farming and 99 non-farming households) were sampled. Data analysis was done through descriptive statistics and inferential statistics (econometric modelling using a probit regression model). On average, respondents were about 46 …
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Subsidies, aquaculture technology adoption, and welfare impacts in Ghana and Kenya
… adoption, and welfare implications of fish farming households in Ghana and Kenya. It is divided into three separate chapters, each addressing a specific empirical issue related to aquaculture in the countries.</p> <p>The second chapter of this dissertation applies the lognormal double hurdle …
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Urbanization as if people mattered: why the rural urbanization-industrialization complex does not bring its promised welfare impact--three alternative explanations
… urbanizing rural areas. I hypothesize that for farming households, the unfortunate event of losing farm landholding directly results in a medium term reduction in household income and consumption. Using data from Indonesian Family Livelihood Survey (IFLS), I test whether farming households who …
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Growing Cotton: Household Negotiations in Export-Oriented Agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such assumptions. Cotton is the driver of food crop production; and members of cotton farming households operate within a framework of negotiations and bargaining to attain production objectives. Still more, some …
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Growing cotton: Household negotiations in export-oriented agriculture in Africa, Burkina Faso
… Burkina Faso, observations in cotton-producing households appear to challenge such assumptions. Cotton is the driver of food crop production; and members of cotton farming households operate within a framework of negotiations and bargaining to attain production objectives. Still more, some …
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Roles of grasslands in sustainable improvement of land productivity in Bukoba District, Tanzania
… limiting the productivity of the land. In this farming system, grasslands form an integral part in land productivity. However, changes in land tenure systems particularly for grasslands in recent years have undermined the functionality of the agro-ecological system. This study was designed to …
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An analysis of household characteristics impacting food security and market participation in rural Uganda
… most recent Ugandan census, 40% of rural Ugandan households experience food insecurity and 25% live below the country's poverty line. Of the rural households, 80% are already engaged in some form of agriculture. Since market participation through selling crops is known to decrease both poverty and …
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The impact of mobile money on Rwandan household consumption
… lack of formal insurance mechanisms among rural farming households. The spread of mobile phones has introduced mobile money, which offers new financial opportunities to marginalized groups. This study examines mobile money's impact on consumption in Rwanda, using data from the Rwanda FinScope …
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Determinants of output prices formation in local sheep markets - the case of Amathole and Joe Xabi (Ukhahlamba), Eastern Cape
… of sheep prices for small-scale sheep farming households in two districts of the Eastern Cape, namely Amathole and Ukhahlamba (Joe Xabe). Output prices that small farm households receive for their sheep affect their incomes from agriculture (knowing that revenue is a product of quantity …
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Coastal Resource Use, Management, and Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines
… was high (70%) with fishing and seaweed farming households having the highest level of awareness. Overall, resource users perceive MPAs as being beneficial and are willing to protect larger marine areas. Their acceptance is complementary to increasing efforts of scaling up marine reserve …
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Factors contributing to disadoption of conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers in Petauke,Zambia
… promoted by government through the Conservation Farming Unit of the Zambia National Farmers Union and non-governmental organizations such as Land Management and Conservation Farming Project, the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering …
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Factors contributing to disadoption of conservation agriculture among smallholder farmers in Petauke,Zambia
… promoted by government through the Conservation Farming Unit of the Zambia National Farmers Union and non-governmental organizations such as Land Management and Conservation Farming Project, the Golden Valley Agricultural Research Trust, the Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering …
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The Potential of Watershed Development for Enhancing Agricultural Livelihood: Three Essays from the Semi-arid Regions of India
… becomes the natural resource base from which farming households draw water for irrigation by investing in wells or other such assets. The management of micro-watersheds are based on the principles of community based natural resource management. However, the irrigation access (wells) to this …
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Utilisation pattern and economic potential of indigenous fruits and vegetables among rural communities in Akure, Nigeria
… and vegetables to improve the livelihood of farming households cannot be overemphasized. This study applied probit regression, principal component analysis (PCA) and propensity score matching (PSM) models to investigate the factors that determine the decisions of households to utilize their …
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Eliciting farmer preferences for rice varietal trait improvements using an experimental methodology based on investment games
… trait improvements (VTIs). A total of 122 rice-farming households participated in the experiment, with both the husband and wife taking part in activities. The thesis consists of three core chapters, which specifically analyse the following: (i) farmers’ investment preferences for VTIs and the …
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Impact of coordinated asset transfers and asset ownership on poverty reduction, women's empowerment, and child education: evidence from Zambia and Tanzania
… rural children, poor children, and children from farming households. These conditions may raise the opportunity cost of schooling and result in weaker education outcomes. Building on the finding that different assets have differential effects, the third and fourth chapters assess the impact of an …
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