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Factors Determining Rice Farm Households’ Adoption of Organic Farming in Taiwan

Agronomy, 2021
The adoption of environmentally friendly farming practices, such as organic farming, is promoted as a promising option for meeting the sustainable development goals in Taiwan.
Min-Han Tsai, Yun-Cih Chang, Ting-Ya Yang, Yir-Hueih Luh   +3 more
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Evaluating the Impact of Cultural and Social Factors on Women's Entrepreneurship in Tehran Municipality Entrepreneurship Houses [PDF]

مطالعات اجتماعی روان‌شناختی زنان, 2020
In developing countries, women are the first hope for family development, growth, and development in their own countries. This research was conducted to evaluate the impact of cultural and social factors on women entrepreneurship in Tehran's municipality'
Mohammad javad Ershadi, Nesa Rezaee, Reza Bagheri HoseinAbadi   +2 more
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Two and a half undeservedly forgotten conceptual foundations of rural sociology

RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023
Although Russian society is strongly connected with the countryside and has deep ‘rural roots’, agrarian issues have always been somewhat marginal in the national scientific tradition, mainly in its social-scientific branch.
A. M. Nikulin, I. V. Trotsuk
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Determinants for Deployment of Climate-Smart Integrated Pest Management Practices: A Meta-Analysis Approach

Agriculture, 2022
Following the development and dissemination of new climate-smart agricultural technologies to farmers globally, there has been an increase in the number of socio-economic studies on the adoption of climate-smart integrated pests’ management (CS-IPM ...
Haruna Sekabira, Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Rousseau Djouaka, Victor Clottey, Christopher Gaitu, Manuele Tamò, Yusuf Kaweesa, Stanley Peter Ddungu   +7 more
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Participatory Simulation of Land-Use Changes in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam: the Combined Use of an Agent-Based Model, a Role-Playing Game, and a Geographic Information System

Ecology and Society, 2005
In Vietnam, the remarkable economic growth that resulted from the doi moi (renovation) reforms was based largely on the rural households that had become the new basic unit of agricultural production in the early 1990s. The technical, economic, and social
Jean-Christophe Castella, Tran Ngoc Trung, Stanislas Boissau   +2 more
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A Survey on the Level of Agricultural Development and its Effective Indicators in Hirmand [PDF]

جغرافیا و توسعه, 2012
Geography and Development 10nd Year - No. 28 - Autumn 2012 Received : 20/4/2011   Accepted : 18/7/2012 PP : 25 - 30   A Survey on the Level of Agricultural Development and its Effective Indicators in Hirmand   Dr. Mahmood Reza Mirlotfi               
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Transformation of Agricultural Production Organization Patterns: Pathways of Long-Term Large-Scale Farmland Transfer and Socialized Services for Smallholder Farmers

Redai dili
Under the fundamental condition of a populous country dominated by smallholder farming, this study compares two principal pathways of moderate-scale operation for linking smallholders to modern agriculture: land-transfer-based and socialized service ...
Ren Yang, Yujia Qin
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Farm households’ livelihood adaptive capacity under multiple pressures of small watershed management

Ecological Indicators
Small watershed management, a key practice within nature-based solutions (NbS), plays a crucial role in mediating tensions between ecological conservation and economic development while facilitating livelihood transitions within regional farm households.
Yaru Sun, Yilin Gan, Jing Luo, Tingting Han, Hafo Wang, Ruirui Yang, Lingling Tian   +6 more
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The Role and Function of Entrepreneurship Empowerment of Villagers in Rural Areas (Case Study: Central Part of Hashtroud) [PDF]

جغرافیا و پایداری محیط, 2016
1-Introduction Entrepreneurship, as a socio-economic phenomenon, is affected by different factors. Economic conditions have been known as the cause for entrepreneurship by some experts who believe that entrepreneurship is the major force of economic ...
Mohammad Akbarpour
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The livelihood impacts of eucalypt plantations on rural farm households in Western Gurage Watersheds, Central-south Ethiopia

Trees, Forests and People
Background: Rural landscapes, particularly those close to human settlements and main roads throughout the highlands of Ethiopia, appear greener than the outfields because of eucalypt plantations.
Belay Zerga, Bikila Warkineh, Demel Teketay, Muluneh Woldetsadik   +3 more
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