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Smallholder farmers involvement in seed production of pigeonpea : An assessment in Odisha, India [PDF]
, 2016 Smallholder pigeonpea farmers in Odisha always rely on self-saved seeds of preferred landrace with long maturity period of 7 months and exploiting this for a period of 2-4 years or more.
Mula, R P +6 more
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Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, EarlyView.Abstract Energy scarcity remains a persistent challenge in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA), where limited access to reliable, affordable, and clean energy constrains socioeconomic development. Biomass resources, including agricultural residues, forest waste, and waste from other biological sources, are widely available, but their use for modern energy ...
Joseph O. Dirisu +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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Technological Innovations for Smallholder Farmers in Ghana [PDF]
, 2016 This chapter explores which community-based technologies have the greatest potential for reducing poverty and vulnerability among many smallholder farmers in Ghana. To this end, the stochastic dominance test was applied to rank outcomes from the different technologies used by the smallholder farmers in the study area.
Samuel Asuming-Brempong +3 more
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Factors influencing adoption of agroforestry among smallholder farmers in Zambia [PDF]
Agroforestry technologies have been extensively researched and introduced to smallholder farmers in Zambia for over two decades. Despite the research and extension effort over this period, not many farmers have adopted these technologies.
Kabwe, Gillian +2 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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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.
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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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Adoption of Conservation Agriculture Technologies by Smallholder Farmers in the Shamva District of Zimbabwe: A Tobit application [PDF]
Conventional agricultural practices such as the use of the moldboard plough are no longer sustainable due to their extensive soil degradation effects.
Wall, Patrick +2 more
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Analysis of Crop Yield Volatility Among Smallholder Farmers in Ghana
, 2020 We explore crop yield volatility among rural and urban smallholder farmers using data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standard Survey (GLSS 6). Three separate ordinary least squares (OLS) models are estimated to determine the effect of access to
Koomson, Isaac +2 more
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