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Understanding of the farmers’ privilege concept by smallholder farmers in South Africa
South African Journal of Science, 2015 Legislation on plant breeders’ rights – the Plant Breeders’ Rights Act, 1976 (Act No. 15 of 1976) – currently is being reviewed by the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. This legislation provides for farmers’ privilege, which is one of the exceptions to plant breeders’ rights.
Netnou-Nkoana, Noluthando C. +3 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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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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THE PERCEPTION OF SMALLHOLDER FARMERS TOWARD MICRO-INSURANCE AS A RISK COPING STRATEGY IN ZIMBABWE
AGRISE, 2023 Microinsurance is an important risk mitigation strategy in smallholder farmers’ agricultural enterprises that are faced with intensifying climate change and unpredictability.
Chrispen Maireva
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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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Agriculture, 2022 The Northern Cape Province of South Africa faces drought that limits human endeavours, and which explains the unpredictable progress in livestock production over time.
Yonas T. Bahta, Vuyiseka A. Myeki
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Why Didn't I Get a Payout? Understanding Farmer Choices, Index Insurance, and Basis Risk
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Index insurance, while heralded as a potential solution to alleviate poverty and food insecurity among agricultural households, has its own set of challenges, notably basis risk. Basis risk is the discrepancy between the insurance payout and losses incurred, posing a significant deterrent to the adoption of index insurance.
S. Lucille Blakeley +4 more
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