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Journal of Agriculture and Food ResearchDespite Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) potential to enhance food security and livelihoods, the commercialisation of sorghum remains limited, with most production occurring under subsistence farming systems.
Collins M. Musafiri +4 more
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Heliyon, 2023 This study assessed the adaptive capacity of smallholder cocoa farmers to address the adverse effects of climate variability in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Ghana.
Frank Baffour-Ata +7 more
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Sustainable FuturesAir pollution, population growth, and the lack of fossil energy sources are critical factors that drive people toward clean and renewable energies in the current century. Biogas is suitable for rural farmers as a source of clean energy.
Nasim Izadi +2 more
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Climate change impacts and adaptation among smallholder farmers in Central America
Agriculture & Food Security, 2018 Background Smallholder farmers are one of the most vulnerable groups to climate change, yet efforts to support farmer adaptation are hindered by the lack of information on how they are experiencing and responding to climate change.
Celia A. Harvey +6 more
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Heliyon, 2022 More often than not, good innovations introduced to farmers failed to be adopted or diffused among them, simply because the complexities and the variations in farmers' innovation adoption are not well explore. This study aims to analyse the innovation adopter categories that smallholder farmers belong to in Ghana and how their socioeconomic attributes ...
Daniel Nyarko Ayisi +2 more
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Organizational analysis of the seed sector of rice in Guinea: stakeholders, perception and institutional linkages [PDF]
, 2011 This paper analyses the organization of the rice seed sector in Guinea with the overall objectives to assess how organizational settings affect seed supply to small-scale farmers and to suggest institutional changes that would favour seed service and ...
Mele, P., van +4 more
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Diversified and Sustainable Business Strategy of Smallholder Farmers in the Suburbs of Taiwan
Agriculture, 2022 Taiwan’s smallholder farmers are transforming into a diversified business model to respond to the transformation of economic structures and the demand for sightseeing and recreation.
Ching-Sung Lee +3 more
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Smallholder farmers and contract farming in developing countries [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Poverty is prevalent in the small-farm sector of many developing countries. A large literature suggests that contract farming—a preharvest agreement between farmers and buyers—can facilitate smallholder market participation, improve household welfare, and promote rural development.
Eva-Marie Meemken, Marc F. Bellemare
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Effects of Covid-19 on smallholder tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe
African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2023 Zimbabwe is an agricultural based economy contributing an average 20% to the gross domestic product (GDP). The sector has been facing a number of challenges including low productivity, erratic rainfall, poor soil fertility, low investment, shortages of farm power, poor physical and institutional infrastructure.
Abel , S. +3 more
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Can ecosystem-based adaptation address the adaptation needs of smallholder farmers? Insights from smallholder coffee and subsistence farmers in central America [PDF]
, 2015 In many regions, climate change is having significant adverse impacts on the agricultural production and livelihoods of smallholder farmers, with important consequences for global food security..
Alpizar, Francisco +9 more
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