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Rural food security, subsistence agriculture, and seasonality. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Many of the world's food-insecure and undernourished people are smallholder farmers in developing countries. This is especially true in Africa. There is an urgent need to make smallholder agriculture and food systems more nutrition-sensitive.
Kibrom T Sibhatu, Matin Qaim
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THE SUBSISTENCE AND SEMI-SUBSISTENCE FARMS IN ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE
Ekonomika Poljoprivrede (1979), 2012 For the integration process, agriculture is considered a sensible sector due to its importance for candidate countries and due to its agrarian potential that these countries bring along the already existing one in the European Union.
Amelia Diaconu
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Climate variability, subsistence agriculture and household food security in rural Ghana [PDF]
Heliyon, 2021 This study investigates smallholder farmers’ perceived impact of climate variability on subsistence agriculture. The study further explores household food security from access perspective and the factors that influence food accessibility in the rural ...
Peter Asare-Nuamah
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The Future of Subsistence Agriculture in the Rural Community of Uzanu, Edo State, Nigeria
Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2016 This study examines the current practice of subsistence agriculture in Uzanu, Edo state, Nigeria, and its contribution to the agricultural development and food security of the rural community now and for the future.
Stephen Onakuse
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The Virtual Fence Dynamic: a Breakthrough for Low-Cost and Sustainable Mitigation of Human-Elephant Conflict in Subsistence Agriculture? [PDF]
Frontiers in Conservation Science, 2022 Attempts to deter elephants from entering crop fields and human settlements in Africa have used various barriers (e.g. electric fences, chilli fences, beehive fences or plant barriers), situated on or very near the boundaries of fields or villages, with ...
Michael La Grange +3 more
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Jàmbá, 2019 In developing countries, food production challenges continue to persist, despite interventions at household levels such as input provision to address farmers’ resource constraints and training in conservation farming to improve land use and management by
Norman Chivasa
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Credit constraints and soybean farmers' welfare in subsistence agriculture in Togo [PDF]
Heliyon, 2019 This study assesses the impact of credit constraints on soybean farmers' welfare in subsistence agriculture in Togo. In order to control potential sample selection bias, the endogenous switching regression method was adopted and data collected from a ...
Essossinam Ali, Nadège Essossolim Awade
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Subsistence and semi subsistence agriculture in Romania [PDF]
, 2014 The paper aims to analyze the main question that arises in the context of current agricultural policies: are households farms really? Viewed from the perspective of sustainable development of rural areas, the answer becomes very important, especially given that the actual shortcomings rural employment opportunities and business development. Research is
Mihaela Cristina Vlad
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Declining agriculture in Garhwal Himalaya: Major drivers and implications
Cogent Social Sciences, 2023 Subsistence agriculture—the cultivation of subsistence cereals including millets, oilseeds, and pulses is the major occupation and source of livelihood of people of the Garhwal region.
Vishwambhar Prasad Sati, Saurav Kumar
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Between subsistence and corporate agriculture
Cahiers Agricultures, 2013 Ward Anseeuw
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