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Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi
Implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity, and crop income
In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improving food security must come from gains in agricultural productivity through better technology and more profitable crops. In the past, agricultural policy promoted hybrid maize and, more recently, tobacco...
Malawi
1997 - International Food Policy Research Institute
技术文件
Encouraging sustainable smallholder agriculture in Namibia
Farming in Namibia’s Northern Communal Areas (NCAs) is predominantly for subsistence purposes, and is characterised by very low and even declining productivity due to a combination of low and uneven rainfall and poor soils, with conditions of extreme income inequality and poverty, under nutrition, out-migration of labour and high population...
Namibia
1997
书籍
Globalization, Gender and Fisheries: Report of the Senegal Workshop on Gender Perspectives in Fisheries - Women in Fisheries No. 4
The fourth in the Women in Fisheries series, this contains the report of the concluding workshop of the first phase of the Women in Fisheries programme of ICSF. Held in Rufisque, Senegal, in June 1996, the Workshop attracted 33 participants from 12 countries.
Senegal
1997 - International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF)
Газетная статья
Response of farmers to agricultural insurance in Kogi State, Nigeria
This study conducted in Kogi and Adavi Local Government Areas of Kogi State, assessed farmers response to the Agricultural Insurance Scheme of the Nigerian Insurance Company (NAIC). The willingness of farmers to take up the scheme was also determined. The data obtained were subjected to descriptive statistics and multiple Regression...
Nigeria
1996
政策简报/文件
Financing smallholder farmers
This paper discusses the merits and de-merits of different means of financing smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa, with special reference to Zimbabwe. This financing includes inter alia multilateral and bilateral agreements with governments and other agencies, micro-financial institutions coming from both the private sector and nongovernmental organizations.
Zimbabwe
1996 - Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, Zimbabwe
Газетная статья
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Газетная статья
Intensifying production among smallholder farmers
The impact of improved climbing beans in Rwanda
While bush beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris L.) have long been the protein staple of Rwandan agriculture, improved climbing beans have been introduced within the last 10 years, enabling farmers to intensify, stabilize and better stagger production. Through a 1992-3 nation-wide survey of 1050 households, conducted in both major growing seasons, this study examines...
Rwanda
1995 - International Center for Tropical Agriculture
Газетная статья
Empirical Evidence of Mechanization Effects on Smallholder Crop Production Systems in Botswana
Draught animal power (DAP) is well established as the traditional farming technology of smallholder farmers in Botswana. However, in recent years, the use of tractor farm technology is increasingly becoming important among smallholder farmers in spite of the on-going debate on the desirability of mechanizing smallholder crop production systems. Using...
Botswana
1995
政策简报/文件
Sustainable seed systems in Sub-Saharan Africa
This study stresses the need for the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to put in place a seed system which would meet the seed needs of a wide range of farmers, classified according to their risk tolerance capacity and resource endowments. Obviously, a single strategy cannot meet this objective. The study...
1994 - World Bank
Газетная статья
Getting Serious
Thoughts on Agricultural Research and Increased Smallholder productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
Increase in agriculture productivity are fundamental to the sustainable development of many African economies. While efforts are being made to provide more appropriate policies to encourage policies to encourage production, progress on technology development is disappointing. This is an area in which African science can, and must, make a greater...
1993 - Rockefeller Foundation
期刊
Nature et Faune: Wildlife and Protected Areas management and natural resources conservation
"Nature et Faune" is a quarterly international publication dedicated to the exchange of information and scientific data on wildlife and protected areas management and conservation of natural resources on the African continent. The present edition of "Nature et Faune" covers subjects that are as broad and complementary as possible: the...
Kenya - Namibia - Sierra Leone - Uganda - United Republic of Tanzania - Zambia - Zimbabwe
1991 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
期刊
Nature et Faune: Wildlife and Protected Areas management and natural resources conservation (Vol 7,No.2)
"Nature et Faune" is a quarterly international publication dedicated to the exchange of information and scientific data on wildlife and protected areas management and conservation of natural resources on the African continent. The current issue of "Nature et Faune" covers the outcome of a study carried out for FAO on...
Democratic Republic of the Congo - Ghana
1991 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
期刊
Nature et Faune: Wildlife and Protected Areas management and natural resources conservation (Vol 7,No.3)
"Nature et Faune" is a quarterly international publication dedicated to the exchange of information and scientific data on wildlife and protected areas management and conservation of natural resources on the African continent. Within the context of its information and training programme on Wildlife management, FAO, in conjunction with the University...
Benin - Cameroon - Central African Republic - Ghana
1991 - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
政策简报/文件
Agricultural employment expansion
Smallholder land and labour capacity growth
This report is based on a synthesis of findings from various publications, ZEDS surveys and numerous Government publications. It is supported by a wide spreading background study report on Zimbabwe's prospects for employment and agricultural development produced with two other colleagues from ZIDS.
In four preliminary sections the report first traces...
Zimbabwe
1990 - University of Zimbabwe
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