This study examines how the political alignments of Midwestern farmers, proxied by their consumption partisan media, affect perceptions and responses to US–China trade war. Our results indicate that farmers who consume conservative media perceive a lower income loss resulting from war view Market Facilitation Program (MFP) as more helpful. Conversely, liberal have opposite perception biases. We...

There is a growing interest in understanding how different actors involved in debates regarding GMOs produce, justify and mobilize evidence in the face of the ‘unknown unknowns’ put forward by this technology. Moreover, and in line with the STS literature on the role of non-expert knowledge and concerned groups in the shaping of GMO regulations, there is an ever-increasing interest in understan...

Community Food Business Development (PUPM) is one of the Indonesian government’s programs to achieve food security. The role farmers in PUPM are as producers, so they have an important realizing This study aims examine performance model based on characteristics production areas, consumption and entrepreneurship security East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) Province according farmers’ perceptions. sample wa...

To date, research on collaborative watershed management has paid scant attention to the role of grassroots stakeholders, who are the people that actually use natural resources. This paper argues cooperation from grassroots stakeholders is necessary for the success of collaborative management, and outlines three theoretical perspectives to explain cooperation. The validity of these theoretical p...

This paper reports the results of a survey of attitudes of commercial fanners and supply cooperative managers about agricultural supply cooperatives. Cooperative managers and fann­ ers frequently made significantly different responses to questionnaire statements. With a few exceptions, fann size and fanner age did not appear to influence perceptions about supply cooperatives. "",nether a fanner...

This paper discusses a methodology to model precipitation indices and premium prices for index-based drought insurance for smallholders. Spatial basis risk, which is borne by the insured, is a problem, especially in variable topography. Also, site-specific drought risk needs to be estimated accurately in order to offer effective insurance cover and ensure financial sustainability of the insuran...

Salassae Village, Bulukumba district is an organic village by the application of agriculture farming since 2011. The and conventional system closely related to each farmers’ perceptions. This research aims determine perception on farmers natural system, analyze factors that ‘perception effort in Village. was carried out interview questionnaire method 67 farmers, divided 25 42 farmers. uses desc...

Rice is the most important cereal crop in Kenya coming third after maize and wheat. It forms a very important diet for a majority of families in Kenya. The demand for rice in Kenya has seen a dramatic increase over the last few years while production has remained low. This is because rice production has been faced by serious constraints notably plant diseases of which the most devastating is ri...