The char land of Bangladesh is vulnerable to climate change. There are changes in extreme weather events. Impact change resulted feminization agricultural practices. Number development interventions have been taken skill the rural community take adaptation action on agriculture. Development Dimla, Nilphamari were studied from June 2018 December 2019 identify capacity using information and commu...

The global research and development community in general as well as most of the farmers worldwide are at a crossroad, and must decide on the question: which way forward with agriculture in the 21 st century? The empirical evidence provided by the farming communities as presented in this paper tells us that farmer-led transformation of agricultural production systems based on Conservation Agricu...

A set of trial exercises was run to compare pest surveillance capabilities of the Department of Agriculture and Food’s entomology and plant pathology staff (all with some degree of field survey experience) with persons from various community groups. Information indicating a comparable level of confidence in the use of community members for surveillance, to complement professional staff capacity...

The potential of different field boundary types in lowland farmland to contribute to arthropod biodiversity and sustainable agriculture was investigated. Field boundaries, categorised according to nationally applicable definitions, were found to represent ecologically differing habitats based on their woody abundance and the frequency of young and mature emergent trees. These habitat characteri...

Agricultural productivity relies on a wide range of ecosystem services provided by the soil biota. Plowing is a fundamental component of conventional farming, but long-term detrimental effects such as soil erosion and loss of soil organic matter have been recognized. Moving towards more sustainable management practices such as reduced tillage or crop residue retention can reduce these detriment...

General knowledge of the small, invisible, or hidden organisms that make soil one of the most biodiverse habitats on Earth is thought to be scarce, despite their importance in food systems and agricultural production. We provide the first worldwide review of high-quality research that reports on farmers’ knowledge of soil organisms in agriculture. The depth of farmers’ knowledge varied; some fa...

The basic contours of the Amish economic transformation over the past few decades have been well documented, including the demographic squeeze that pushed many Amish out of farming, their embrace of cottage industries and, to a lesser extent, factory labor, and the social and cultural dilemmas created by successful entrepreneurship. Yet the effects of increasing market entanglement on the distr...

1 Fay W. Boozman College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 2 Mid-Delta Community Consortium, West Helena, AR 3 Boys Girls Adults Community Development Center, Marvell, AR 4 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Jackson, MS 5 Delta Obesity Prevention Research Unit, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Little Rock, AR 6 Sanders ...

This research examines the extent to which a Farm-to-Table restaurant prompted social and ecological changes in food system. Chefs restaurants are uniquely positioned both generate consumer interest certain foods motivate farmers grow such products. Despite their central role Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), influence of on farming practices re-localization sourcing is under-explored. In this ...