نتایج جستجو برای: farmers livelihood
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Given the uncertain future living of peasant households when they rent out farmland, the situation of livelihood assets is important for keeping sustainable livelihood. In this paper, the livelihood assets indicators were selected based on DFID’s sustainable livelihoods framework, and Monte Carlo method was adopted to establish the assessment model. The empirical study of peasant households sur...
This article focuses on the relationship between in-migration from Northern Ghana and changing land tenure norms in Ghana's central "transition zone" in Brong Ahafo Region. Using the complex adaptive systems (CAS) theoretical framework, it theorizes this relationship as part of a wider set of "co-evolving" social and environmental conditions across Brong Ahafo. It presents new qualitative resea...
A local veterinarian, Environment Canada wildlife toxicologists and other wildlife researchers suspected pesticide poisoning, but the source was a mystery. Oddly, the poisonings occurred in winter, a time of minimal or no pesticide application. The strange timing, bizarre symptoms and large number of affected birds led researchers to investigate further. The Lower Fraser River Valley is the mos...
In developing countries, where a majority of families derive their livelihoods from agriculture, sustainable agriculture cannot be discussed in isolation of sustainable rural livelihoods. Sustainable rural livelihood is a multifaceted concept and refers to maintenance or enhancement of access of rural families to food and income-generating activities on a long-term basis. It encompasses secured...
The present practice of traditional slash-and-burn agriculture (locally called jhum kheti) by the ethnic Noctes in Tirap district of Arunachal Pradesh, India is a part of history of rural landscapes. Even today, the local jhumias totally depends on this traditional farming system for their livelihood. Nonetheless, it is time and again considered as ‘traditional’ and firm in contrast to modern m...
Between 1906 and 1917 China (under the Imperial and then Republican regimes) enacted a highly effective intervention to suppress the production of opium. Evidence from British Foreign Office records suggest that the intervention was centred, in many areas, upon a highly repressive incarnation of law enforcement in which rural populations had their property destroyed, their land confiscated and/...
Abiotically stressful environment in changing climate is predicted to impact negatively the diversity and abundance of insect-pests; and ultimately the extent of damage caused in economically important agricultural crops. This may affect perilously the agricultural production and the livelihood of farmers especially in tropical and subtropical countries where larger proportion of work force is ...
Livestock makes an important contribution to the livelihood of Sahelian farmers and herders and is a source of self-insurance against income shocks. By allocating livestock efficiently over space, spatial market integration should foster a sustainable use of pasture resources. It is also expected to favor the sharing of risk across regions by smoothing idiosyncratic price variations. Using mont...
introduction food security over the past decade was one of the main objectives of rural development policies in many countries. agricultural policies such as productive improvement, conservation and utilization of water and land resources are being considered in the heart of development projects. among these initiatives to achieve improved quality of infrastructure, environment and welfare is t...
The sustainable livelihood framework is a widely used approach to analyze changes in rural livelihoods, especially in resource dependent communities. The framework emphasizes that given a certain situation where the livelihood context, resources and institutions remain favourable, livelihood strategies carried out by people could possibly lead to two different outcomes. One, the results of live...
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