This piece of work aims at prioritizing the issues involved in agricultural business in India from farmer’s perspective. This study is carried out in Bargarh district of the state called Orissa located in eastern part of India. Agricultural diversification in the state of Orissa in general and Bargarh district in particular is highly intensified towards vegetables production which gives farmers...

This article synthesizes the state of the art in the application of ethnographic and participatory methods in climate application research. The review focuses on 2 aspects: (1) the cognitive and cultural landscape in which farmers’ understanding of climate and climate information is grounded and (2) the decision-making processes and environment which shape farmers’ adaptive strategies. The firs...

This paper argues for a twofold perspective on human adaptation to climate change in the Amazon. First, we need to understand the processes that mediate perceptions of environmental change and the behavioural responses at the levels of the individual and the local population. Second, we should take into account the process of production and dissemination of global and national climate informati...

The study aims an investigating for the implication of tree based land use pattern to smallholder farmers’ food insecurity coping mechanism. Information on household characteristics, purpose of land use practices, household food security situation and tree based land use has contributed to household food security were collected through household interviews. About 11% of the total households wer...

The first outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD) recorded in Ireland since 1941 was successfully eliminated due to four main factors, as follows: --the willingness of the farmers in Cooley to sacrifice themselves in the national interest --decisive action was taken rapidly once the first outbreak was declared --geographical location of the Meigh and Proleek outbreaks which enabled the authori...

Both Bangladesh and India over the last two decades have realised significant improvement in availability and accessibility of quality rice seeds, particularly high yielding varieties (HYVs). This translated into increased rice production in the two countries. While rice production in Bangladesh increased from about 18 million tonnes in 1990-91 to nearly 35 million tonnes in 2011-12; production...

As consumer demand for organic food grows, organic certification is increasingly promoted in many developing countries. Organic products earn a premium price on the market compared to conventional varieties. Hence, organic production is often seen as a valuable alternative for developing countries with many smallholders. Using value chain analysis for the case of the pineapple sector in Ghana a...

Plant breeding by researchers has become increasingly isolated from the plant breeding of farmers. Collaborative plant breeding (CPB) offers the possibility of bringing these two plant breeding traditions together to increase the usefulness of new crop varieties to farmers, especially small-scale farmers working in stress environments with limited external inputs. This paper presents a framewor...

Administered commodity price schemes in developing countries have proved ineffective in raising farmers’ incomes and price stabilisation through futures markets is increasingly advocated as the alternative policy objective. A potential difficulty is that farmers tend not to hedge extensively, even in developed countries where access to futures markets is long established. Explanations for this ...