Agricultural production faces diverse and often conflicting expectations, such as considerations related to environmental protection, food security risk management, well strengthening the profitability competitiveness of domestic production. In this study, we applied contingent allocation method a national agricultural budget analyse preferences farmers other citizens for allocating funds. Surv...

The main objective of this study was to assess the impact of farmer field schools on adoption of technical packages of wheat production in Gezira Scheme, Sudan. Field survey was used to collect data from 50 FFS-participants of two schools (25 from each school), and also equal number from Non-FFS participants were selected for comparison. Close ended questionnaire was used in data collection. Th...

Abstract We examine how social preferences affect the workings of voluntary green payment schemes and show that a regulator could use facilitation services along with reward to generate better ecological outcome at less cost by exploiting farmer’s gain social-image/reputation. To motivate our model, we first present results an incentivized elicitation survey in Scotland which shows there is nor...

Paul Farmer, physician, anthropologist, and author, spoke at the 2009 Society for Medical Anthropology Conference at Yale University in September.

Though beekeeping is a common farming enterprise and income generating activity in Atsbi Wemberta district, and promotional efforts have been made to improve it, no systematic study has been undertaken to evaluate the promotional efforts and people’s response to it. The objectives of this study were to identify determinants of improved box hive adoption by the beekeepers; and to analyze financi...