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Heliyon, 2023 Inaccessibility to extension services by smallholder farmers remains one of the impediments to achieving high agricultural productivity and food security. Extension services play a critical role in information dissemination that can avert food insecurity
Prisca Akinyi Ogola +2 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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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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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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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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Social Sciences and Humanities Open, 2023 The main challenges facing smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are soil fertility decline and climate change, culminating in increased food insecurity.
Collins M. Musafiri +8 more
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I share because I care! Smallholder farmers’ perceptions of the usefulness of word of mouth for their market participation decisions [PDF]
IIM Ranchi Journal of Management StudiesPurpose – The approach to integrate concepts from different disciplines so as to solve the problems facing smallholder farmers has gained momentum in recent years.
Ismail Juma Ismail +3 more
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