A participatory land use planning approach (PLUP) was carried out in two villages of the Mekong Delta coastal area. The PLUP was done twice (2002 and 2003). A geographic information system (GIS) was used for analyzing the land use change, the realization of the farmers’ preference, the preference change and the preference conflicts between groups of aquaculture and agriculture farmers. Results ...

importance of farmers' participation in system design and management has been emphasized in various fields. motivation is thought as the most important factor affecting farmers' participation in agricultural development programs. many theories have been postulated in motivation field and abundant research projects accomplished in this area. mcmillion’s theory was recognized as appropr...

Institutional innovations are increasingly seen as key to achieving not only agricultural growth, by overcoming market failures, but also to ensure that poor smallholders also benefit from this process. This paper analyses institutional arrangements for vegetable marketing in East Africa from a transaction cost perspective. Marketing of vegetables is still dominated by spot markets with some, b...

The paper presents the results of studies which investigated farmers’’ reasoning and behaviour with regards to the mis use of personal protective equipment and pesticide among smallholders in Colombia. First, the research approach is described. In particular, the structured mental models approach and the integrative agent centred framework are presented. These approaches permit to understand th...

Studies on oil palm plantation expansion have been widely conducted and still debatable. This condition is caused by the increase in land every year. It cannot be separated from role of investors/private companies, state, smallholders. paper focuses farmer perspective plantations with purpose describing economy, income diversification working time. study used a qualitative quantitative approach...

LIBRARY TRENDS, Vol. 62, No. 1, 2013 (“Community Informatics in China,” edited by Kate Williams), pp. 95–104. © 2013 The Board of Trustees, University of Illinois Abstract The reading rooms in the rural areas of Beijing are among the oldest farmers’ reading rooms in China. By 2011, 3,974 farmers’ reading rooms had been established in rural areas of Beijing; there is now one farmers’ reading roo...

This paper covers nonmarket services provided by farmers for recreational purposes in several Central European regions. A regionally specified general equilibrium model is used to derive the efficiency conditions for a competitive equilibrium to guarantee a Pareto optimal outcome. Moreover, we present green agricultural compensation programmes in Europe and their assessment from an economic per...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to explore the interactions between food securing activities, health and gender equity from the perspective of rural east African women. The specific objectives were to document the critical interaction among these three issues-food security, gender inequity, women's health within the context of sub-Saharan Africa; to describe the nature of this triad from the...

A growing literature has identified agricultural expansion by small farmers in the tropics as an important cause of global forest clearing, yet institutional factors affecting small farmers' decisions have rarely been taken into account in empirical analyses. We examine the influence of context on household land use/cover change (LUCC) decisions and estimate a multilevel model of LUCC for fores...

introduction: human activities have induced change and variation in world climate. climate change and variability are important issues because of their effects on agriculture, environment, public health and total society. developing countries are generally more vulnerable to the consequences of these changes, as they tend to rely more on climate-sensitive sectors, such as subsistence agricultur...