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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"rural farmers"”.
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Utility of agricultural mobile apps among Indian rural farmers
… deficiency is particularly pronounced in case of rural, small and marginal farmers. Eighty percent of the Indian farmers are small and marginal farmers; those with landholdings of less than 1.4 hectares. The current channels of accessing this information are through the mass media channels like …
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The usability and effectiveness of a printed information booklet : a survey amongst small-scale rural farmers
… A concise guide targeted at small-scale rural farmers in a South African developmental context. The main objectives are to establish the target audience’s current knowledge of printed information as well as to examine the elements of the text such as appreciation, comprehension, and …
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A Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment among Small Farmers: A Case Study in Western Honduras
… is now affecting every known society. Small farmers in Low Income Countries (LICs) are especially vulnerable to climate change patterns because they depend heavily on rain, seasonality patterns, and known temperature ranges. To help build climate change resilient communities among rural …
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NAFTA and its effect on corn, migration and human rights in Mexico
… responsible for the internal displacement of rural farmers in Mexico. The NAFTA trade agreement has eliminated trade barriers and placed Mexico’s domestically produced corn in direct competition with U.S. highly subsidized corn that has led to Mexican corn farmers, who comprise the majority of …
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Inexpensive, energy-efficient, grid-independent storage and cooling system for the Developing World
… is cold storage at the local level. If small, rural farmers could have access to affordable and reliable chilled storage, more produce would reach the consumer, and the farmer would see his income increase. A team of several people has been working to address this issue by developing a cold …
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From missionary to merino: Identity, economy and material culture in the Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa, 1800 - ca. 1870
… second phase between 1830 and 1860 was to sheep farmers of German, Dutch and mixed descent, who absorbed and moulded the increasing impacts of British influence and materiality into older worlds of cultural resilience and practice. From 1860, a third phase saw a flood of mass produced British …
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Pão em árvores: um estudo do caso sobre a fruta-pão Artocarpus sp no Brejo Paraibano
… planted in backyards of homes and crops of small rural farmers. The field research was conducted in urban and rural town of Sand-Paraíba, located in Heath-Paraiba. And aimed to evaluate the cultivation of breadfruit in Brejo conditions, checking the existing plant population, characterizing this …
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A pot of gold at the end of the rainbow: Subsistence cannabis cultivation in the changing legislative context in South Africa
… district in Swaziland, with the majority of farmers growing the crop for subsistence (Crampton 2015:57). Cannabis thus holds significant value in supplementing incomes and sustaining livelihoods, especially of cultivators. Considering their geographic and economic positions, the contribution …
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Transnational Land Acquisitions (TLA) : an evaluation of current legal frameworks and global regulatory responses from a human rights perspective
… stimulates much needed agricultural and rural development in low-income countries.4 However, there has been widespread opposition to TLA from international and national NGOs, UN agencies, rural peoples associations and other groups, who question the developmental benefits of TLA on a …
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Simulating Community Dynamics in Rural-Urban Water Transfers through an Integrated Agent-Based and Input-Output Modeling Approach
… often seek to purchase water rights from nearby rural farmers and transfer these water allocations out of the rural area. The water-exporting rural community typically experiences not only the loss of water, but also jobs, economic output, and population. Although rural-urban water transfers are …
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"Suitable for all parts": the transformation of menswear in the early American Republic, 1780-1830
… In both the urban mid-Atlantic and in rural New England, ordinary men redefined the style and significance of democratic dress in the new American Republic. The story of early American men's fashion is incomplete so long as it ignores the man in the street. The first chapter of this …
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Performance of Nguni goats supplemented with sweet potato vines
… milk serve as vital sources of protein in most rural houses in developing countries. Goats in developing countries mostly depend on veld as feed that often does not provide the nutrient requirements necessary for optimum production. Supplementary feeds available are often expensive especially …
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Revealing The Heart: The Popular Music Industry In Yangon, Burma
… power relationships, developed in studies of rural farmers, apply also to famous and influential musicians in Burma.
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Factors affecting access to finance by Smallholder Farmers in Zambia
… and perpetual poverty particularly in Zambia’s rural areas. Most of the studies conducted focused on identifying factors which limit participation in agriculture finance from the bank’s perspective and not farmers. Therefore, this study sought to fill the gap and assess variables directly …
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Micro-Institution : design and craft in education for socio-economic change for urban China migrant workers' children
… rights disparity between urban citizens and rural farmers has multigenerational implications: endangering the migrant workers and disenfranchising the next generation, thereby engendering cyclical poverty. In contrast, the role of architecture has been limited to merely the hegemonic …
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Mobile Phone Adoption in Rural Ghana: Understanding How Technologies and Platforms Influence Farming Business Activities
… economies, helping to bridge the gap between rural areas and cities. They are also used to support business activities, manage family relationships, and provide instructions and educational material for high school children. The technology is particularly important in rural Africa because many …
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Gender-based analysis of agricultural water security in Luvhada Community, Limpopo Province, South Africa
… use water differently. A significant number of rural women and men rely on natural water resources for farming in irrigated schemes, as a key and common economic activity. Women undertake farming either together with men or alone (for example, when widowed or when the men migrate to look for …
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Effect of the methanolic extract of Cassia abbreviata in the oxidative stress caused by overcrowding in indigenous chickens
… species that are widely domesticated by rural farmers with poor management practices. Poor management affects the growth performance and health of chickens in various ways. Due to high demand and poor management of chickens, overcrowding has become one of the influencing factors that …
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The impact of training using a structured primary animal health care model on the skills of rural small scale farmers
… Training Service, on the skills of small scale rural farmers. Seventy nine farmers were selected randomly from Makapanstad, Ratjiepane and Mnisi area using a statistical software EpiCalc 2000 v1.02. The selected farmers were assessed for knowledge and skills with background information collected …
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The impact of industrial agrarian policies on soils: experiences of small-scale farmers in the rural Eastern Cape
… against the black majority. Black small-scale farmers in rural areas were encouraged to join commercial agriculture to capitalise on state subsidies and support. Municipalities including Buffalo City Metropolitan, Great Kei, Amathole and others in the Eastern Cape, in collaboration with the …
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