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Factors Affecting Smallholders' Perception of Climate Change in Eritrea. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Manage
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Smallholders and Markets

2021
Smallholder production in Africa tends to be both low yielding relative to the agronomic potential, and crops are of low or variable quality. These outcomes are largely a result of market conditions that smallholders face. Smallholders lack full property rights over land, and capital markets targeting smallholders are thin, so they may not be able to ...
Alan de Brauw, Erwin Bulte
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The Smallholdings and Survival

1991
Rubber was the first commercial crop to receive really widespread participation from small farmers in Malaya. Earlier products, such as coffee in the 1890s, had attracted some Malays on the west coast of the Peninsula, but the short life of the boom left them wary of dependence on the market.
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The smallholder project

2011
This dissertation examines the ideological force of the smallholder trope in various discourses, from classical political economy to early Canadian poetry and agribusiness advertising. The project investigates the increasing elision of smallholders from the socio-economic landscape in Canada by tracing the discursive means of their erasure.
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Smallholders, The Amazon's New Conservationists

Conservation Biology, 2006
Parks, biological reserves, and other protected areas located in the middle of expanding agricultural frontiers are the most important elements in strategies to conserve nature (Brandon et al. 1998; Terborgh & van Schaik 2002). The borders of these frontier protected areas are the battle line between economic activities that are replacing the forest ...
Marina T, Campos, Daniel C, Nepstad
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In Praise of smallholders

Journal of Peasant Studies, 1995
In this review article, Robert Netting's book, Smallholders, Householders. Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive Sustainable Agriculture ‐ the product of a lifetime of study and fieldwork by an American anthropologist, schooled in cultural ecology ‐ is considered. The book, which is essentially about adaptations to population increase in different
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Working with Smallholders

2023
A number of global trends, such as concurrent rises in incomes and urbanization, are driving the increased consumption of meat, dairy, and biofuels. Meeting the demand for products will require considerable increases in global production, particularly in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, where smallholder farming predominates and yields remain low. At
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The Smallholder's Dilemma

Technology and Culture, 2006
Nearly absent from the current popular interest in food is a sense of the political and ecological implications of corporate control over agriculture and the countryside. In Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food, George Pyle expresses anger for the way that corporate agriculture and the United ...
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