Factors affecting smallholder paddy rice farmer's choice of marketing channel in the northern region of Ghana : a thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of AgriCommerce at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2018 The scientific community advocates that enhancing smallholder farmers’ access to reliable, ready and direct market channel is a prerequisite to the attainment of sustainable food supply and poverty reduction in the developing world including Ghana ...
Adu, Eunice
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Livelihood diversification and the expansion of artisanal mining in rural Tanzania: drivers and policy implications [PDF]
, 2010 This paper provides an extended analysis of livelihood diversification in rural Tanzania, with special emphasis on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).
African Development Bank +27 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study offers a forward‐looking assessment of sustainability indicator research in agribusiness by integrating bibliometric mapping with ARIMA‐based forecasting. Analysing 403 Scopus‐indexed articles, bibliographic‐coupling analysis identifies three contemporary thematic domains: Techno‐Managerial Sustainability, Systemic and ...
Marcelo Kratz Mendes +5 more
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Awareness and use of m-banking services in agriculture: The case of smallholder farmers in Kenya [PDF]
Smallholder farmer access to agricultural finance has been a major constraint to agricultural commercialization in developing countries. The ICT revolution in Africa has however brought an opportunity to ease this constraint.
Kirui, Oliver K. +2 more
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Integrating gender into index-based agricultural insurance: a focus on South Africa [PDF]
, 2019 Index insurance is an agricultural risk management tool that can provide a safety net for smallholder farmers experiencing climate risk. While uptake and scale-out of index insurance may be slow among smallholders, we can learn from experiences that ...
Born, Lorna +2 more
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Access to Finance for Smallholder Farmers
, 2014 The percentage of smallholders with access to finance is equally difficult to quantify. According to estimates, even promising approaches to expanding smallholder lending, such as value chain finance, are reaching fewer than 10 percent of smallholders, primarily those in well-established value chains dedicated to higher value cash crops.
openaire +2 more sources
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Agribusiness: From Automation to Augmentation in a Global Context
Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Alexis H. Villacis
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Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates whether, under what conditions, and how community development—conceived as a form of engagement with secondary stakeholders—affects firms' emissions performance. Specifically, we examine the moderating role of Environmental Management Teams (EMTs) and the mediating role of product responsibility capability.
Misagh Tasavori +2 more
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Mineral fertilizer use in land-scarce conditions: Case of Rwanda
Open Agriculture, 2020 This study was undertaken to investigate the use of mineral fertilizer by smallholder farmers in order to understand the set of factors influencing the decisions of smallholder farmers to use fertilizers in land-scarce conditions.
Mugabo Josaphat Rusisiro +3 more
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Agricultural Information Needs and Food Access in the Stann Creek District of Belize [PDF]
, 2018 The purpose of this study was to describe agricultural information sources available to farmers and to describe food access and availability for the people of Dangriga, Stann Creek, Belize.
Harris, Sam
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