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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"farming systems research"”.
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Integration of food consumption and nutrition considerations into the RIARS farming systems research and extension project in the Bicol region of the Philippines
The purpose of the research was to describe the relationship of nutrition/consumption to agricultural production and related areas in the diagnosis and preliminary design of project activities and to describe the contributions of a nutrition focus to problem identification, grouping and treatment …
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Healing the land : monitoring transformation and agricultural sustainability on a Western Cape land reform project
… opportunities in the Western Cape. The Warmwater farming Trust, a land reform project in the Western Cape premised on this model, formed the case study component of my research. Political ecology was adopted as the theoretical framework for linking structural underpinnings and the locale. …
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The effectiveness of community action plans of farmer's livelihood in the Caprivi Region, Namibia
… (CAP) in 2005 as a tool for implementing the Farming Systems Research and Extension (FSRE) approach. The Directorate’s main aim is to have functional Community Action Plans (CAP) in all communities in the Caprivi Region. Although CAP is a useful tool for implementing the FSRE approach in rural …
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A farm-level model to evaluate the impacts of current energy policy options
… ways such scenarios will impact on existing farm systems. Such an approach has application both to the concerns the energy problem poses for the farming community and to the needs of policy-makers in the spheres of agricultural and energy policy. Indeed, it is a feature of policy oriented …
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Management of agricultural systems using mathematical programming
… calculations. New technologies (coming from research, for example) are incorporated into specific aspects of the farm, without considering the relationships to other factors within the whole farming system. Even the recorded data about the performance of existing farm plans, when they exist, …