Land change science has demonstrated that rural livelihoods around the world both drive and reflect changing environmental regimes and political economic/ structural transformations. This article explores the relationship between increasingly globalized rural livelihoods and in-place land change, assessing results from social surveys of smallholding households in the southern Yucatán region. We...

Article history: Received 8 February 2007 Received in revised form 4 December 2007 Accepted 4 December 2007 Fire is an important land management tool for smallholders in the Brazilian Amazon. However, when fires are not properly controlled they can give rise to large-scale wildfires that threaten forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. We use data from a survey of 220 household...

Since the late 1970s dramatic economic changes have taken place in the agricultural sector in the highlands of Guatemala. The introduction of new export crops, such as snow peas, broccoli, and miniature vegetables, has led to yet another agro-export boom. Unlike earlier booms, however, this one has included all but the smallest farmers. The high rate of smallholder participation in the boom, an...

The effects of changes in cropping production technologies, systems and input and output markets on smallholders growing tree crops for export, and the consequences on pest management strategies, including augmentative and conservation biological control, are discussed in the context of pest and crop management research, technology development and farmer training. Evolving approaches in extensi...

Abstract The ability of cocoa smallholders to comply with the agricultural certification scheme has led improvement commodity profits in agriculture, especially crops. This study aims determine participation schemes. Cocoa production contributes national economy by generating exchange profits. Factors such as age smallholders, gender, training, farming experience, education, and attitude influe...

Attempts to increase food crop yields by intensifying agricultural systems using high inputs of nonrenewable resources and chemicals frequently lead to de-gradation of natural resources, whereas most technological innovations are not accessible for smallholders that represent the majority of farmers world wide. Alternatively, cocultures consisting of assemblages of plant and animal species can ...

for maximum impact, high yielding improved varieties with significant yield advantages must be targeted to farmers and localities that value this trait most. explaining farmers’ demand for yield can serve as a means of targeting the development and dissemination of high yielding varieties. this paper analyzes data collected from 395 farmers in northern ethiopia using a zero-limit tobit regressi...

Development actors in West Africa have been promoting agroecological farming as a solution to combat climate change and create more sovereign food systems that enhance the autonomy of local smallholders. However, there is lack empirical evidence regarding actual implementation such programs their potential empower smallholders, especially African region. Drawing on co-produced knowledge from an...

Agroforestry supports food and nutritional security through: (1) the direct provision of tree foods such as fruits and leafy vegetables and by supporting staple crop production; (2) by raising farmers’ incomes through the sale of tree products and surplus staples; (3) by providing fuels for cooking; and (4) by supporting various ecosystem services such as pollination that are essential for the ...

Amidst booming scholarship on alternative food networks (AFNs) in the global North, research on AFN in the global South remains scarce. Partly this is because explicitly alternative initiatives are themselves scarce, except for those focused on export markets. Yet in countries such as Kenya, urban consumers and rural smallholders have good reason to want alternatives to agrichemical dependency,...