Multifunctional agriculture (MFA) has emerged as a key concept in science and politics with respect to the future of agriculture and rural development in the recent decade. Overall, MFA implies that in addition to their main function in production and support of rural livelihood, the agricultural activities have some other advantages for the environment including the conservation of water and s...

this study is looking to understand the reasons behind cold relations of iran and republic of azerbaijan. the authors believe that iran and azerbaijan have not had friendly relationship in spite of many similarities including historical, cultural, ethnic and religious background. the hypothesis of this study is that there are six factors that cause the unfriendly relations. these factors are et...

soil and water assessment tool model, swat, uses different layers of watershed data which out of soil layer is the important one. soil layer data should be extracted from detailed soil maps. in most developing countries including iran, these detailed maps are not available except for irrigation districts and rarely for dry land farming areas and also for some strategic places of development pur...

The objective is to study the agroclimatic elements of Sebastião Leal and Uruçuí do Piauí between 1962-2018 in order provide information support regional agriculture its entrepreneurs. Rainfall data for years 1963-2018 were provided by Superintendence Development Northeast Rural Extension Company Piauí. Estima – T, other work interpolated from neighboring stations, generated thermal data. With ...

a simmering crisis in the nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. one of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

This study analyzed the relationship between smallholder farmers’ perceptions of pluralistic agricultural extension service and social governance. was aimed at identification significant factors that improve governance practices local government planning budgeting process in northern Uganda. Structured interviews with leaders farmer associations were conducted. A multinomial logistic regr...