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User-centred design of a digital advisory service: enhancing public agricultural extension for sustainable intensification in Tanzania [PDF]
, 2020 Sustainable intensification (SI) is promoted as a rural development paradigm for sub-Saharan Africa. Achieving SI requires smallholder farmers to have access to information that is context-specific, increases their decision-making capacities, and adapts ...
Daudi, Happy +6 more
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Assessing Smallholder Farmer's Participation in the Wheat Value Chain in North-West Mt. Kenya
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Wheat is the second most important carbohydrate staple in Kenya and is produced by both smallholder and large-scale farmers. Smallholders are the majority, but produce <20% of the total national production.
Veronica Mwangi +4 more
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African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2023 What do they need? What do they have to offer? How can we help them to nourish their families and improve their livelihoods? As I travel through western Kenya where we work with smallholder farmers, and during my visit to Uganda's north with farmers operating at the very bottom of the pyramid, I see them express themselves, that climate change is here
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Determinants of teff commercialization among smallholder farmers: Beta regression approach
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 In Ethiopia, agricultural commercialization is not well developed. Smallholder farmers with a subsistence farming system dominate crop production, resulting in incompetent and less commercialized produce.
Adugnaw Anteneh, Birara Endalew
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Operational challenges faced by smallholder farmers: a case of Ethekwini Metropolitan in South Africa [PDF]
Environmental Economics, 2016 The study is aimed at establishing the impact of access to capital, access to markets, access to information and access to technology on competitiveness of smallholder farmers on the market in Ethekwini Metropolitan in South Africa.
Joel Mutero +2 more
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Strengthening Farmer Organization for Smallholder Farmers
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2023 Abstract One of Smallholder farmers face various obstacles in developing their farming business including access to capital one of the efforts to answer the challenge is to strengthen farmer organizations. In Tuban, there is a HIPPA or Water User Farmers Association that is able to provide capital for farmers and contribute to Village ...
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Metafrontier analysis of commercial and smallholder tomato production: A South African case
South African Journal of Science, 2018 South African agriculture is a dualist agricultural system with well-developed commercial farmers and resource-poor smallholder farmers. In an effort to address the dualist nature of agriculture, the South African government has developed a strategic ...
Jabulile Z. Gwebu, Nicolette Matthews
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The use of ecosystem-based adaptation practices by smallholder farmers in Central America [PDF]
, 2017 There is growing interest in promoting the use of Ecosystem-based Adaptation (EbA) practices to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate change, however there is limited information on how commonly these practices are used by smallholder farmers and ...
Avelino, Jacques +7 more
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Sustainability, 2023 In the context of rural revitalization, it is important to promote the establishment of lasting cooperation between small farmers and new farmers to drive farmers to increase their income and achieve common prosperity. Based on the research data of 342 small farmers in six provinces, the article empirically analyzes the willingness of small farmers to ...
Liancui Wu, Runjie Du, Qiang Liu
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Determinants of Smallholder Farmer Labor Allocation Decisions in Uganda [PDF]
Journal of African Development, 2022 ABSTRACT This study provides evidence on factors that influence household labor allocation decisions and demand for farm labor in Uganda. We estimated a monthly panel data to deal with potential heterogeneity or individual effect and tested for violation of the random effects modeling assumption that the explanatory variables are ...
Bagamba, Frederick +2 more
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