Designing an effective small farmers scheme in France

Effective Aid for Small Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Designing management options to reduce surface runoff and sediment yield with farmers: an experiment in south-western France.

To preserve the quality of surface water, official French regulations require farmers to keep a minimum acreage of grassland, especially bordering rivers. These agro-environmental measures do not account for the circulation of water within the catchment. This paper examines whether it is possible to design with the farmers agri-environmental measures at field and catchment scale to prevent soil...

An Effective Approach for Designing Suitable Test Cases for Small Laboratory Program: An Article

Effective but simple testing mechanisms to develop software testing skills at learning stage is an utmost required. Testing techniques can mostly be unexplored while learning any programming languages. Programs written seem to be correct and no directed testing is performed, therein the bugs present are not explored by the learners. This paper proposes simple testing approaches for small progra...

Constraints to Effective Use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) among Small-scale Farmers in Anambra State, Nigeria

The study was carried out in Anambra State, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of one hundred and eight (108) small-scale farmers. Percentage, mean score, standard deviation and factor analysis were used for data analysis. The duration of the study was June 2009 and March, 2010. Results of the study indicated that the major constraints to effective use of ICTs by smal...

Weather Indices for Designing Micro-Insurance Products for Small-Holder Farmers in the Tropics

Agriculture is inherently risky. Drought is a particularly troublesome hazard that has a documented adverse impact on agricultural development. A long history of decision-support tools have been developed to try and help farmers or policy makers manage risk. We offer site-specific drought insurance methodology as a significant addition to this process. Drought insurance works by encapsulating t...