Approximently 10,000 years ago, civilization began in the Fertile Crescent of Mesopotamia around the river valleys of the Euphrates and the Tiger rivers. It was agriculture that allowed these civilizations to prosper and the river water that allowed agriculture. The number of people in the world has grown signi cantly since then increasing the demand for food production. Agriculture has been fo...

This study examines how smallholder coffee farmers’ perceptions may influence their engagement in peer mobilization and collective action. Forty farmers were interviewed the Central Highlands region of Peru using a closed-ended instrument. The sample was achieved purposive snowball sampling methods. Quantitative data on attitudes aspirations regarding working with peers, autonomy, external supp...

The performance of farmer groups is critical for the success farmer-led Agricultural Extension approach currently used in Uganda. This study examines factors affecting accessing agricultural extension and advisory services from National Advisory Services Eastern collected data 200 members 19 Performance was dependent variable, which perceived to be influenced by individual members’ objectives, ...

INTRODUCTION This study was a pilot project responding to the increasing levels of stress, depression and other mental health issues in Australian rural areas resulting from prolonged drought and a changing economic and social environment. METHODS Thirty-two Advisory and Extension Agents (AEAs) attended a training course held in 2007 and 2008 in Queensland, Australia. A year after the trainin...

The belief-desire-intention (BDI) model has been widely used to construct reasoning systems for complex tasks in dynamic environments. We have designed a capabilities and abilities (CA)-BDI farmer decision-making model, which is an extension of the BDI architecture and includes internal representations for farmer household Capabilities and Abilities. This model is used to explore farmer learnin...

A project of the CGIAR systemwide program on Soil, Water and Nutrient Management (SWNM), concerned with improving integrated nutrient management practices on small-scale farms in Africa, has been carried out in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda for last two years (September 1999 to September 2001). The project aims to enable small-scale farmers to profitably reverse nutrient depletion of their soils b...

Vietnam recently introduced a policy to promote climate-smart agricultural technologies (CSATs) enhance farmer resilience and adaptation climate change. This study sought identify factors influencing the adoption continuation of CSATs among smallholder farmers. The surveyed 215 farmers in My Loi Village, Ha Tinh Province North-Central Vietnam, where have been adopted practiced since 2014. Logis...

Analysing farmer knowledge of the requirements of finance providers can provide valuable insights to policy makers about ways to improve farmers' access to finance. This study compares farmer knowledge of the requirements to obtain finance with the actual requirements set by different finance provider types, and investigates the relation between demographic and socioeconomic factors and farmer ...

purpose: the main object of this research is to investigate the effective factors on wheat producers' knowledge of soil management in ardabil province. mythology: this study is quantitative in terms of its nature, non-experimental in terms of controlling variables, applied in terms of its objectives and descriptive- analytic in terms of data-gathering procedure. the number of samples was 17500 ...