Abstract Farmers in dryland regions are highly vulnerable to rainfall variability. This vulnerability is unequal, as it mediated by biophysical and social factors. Implementing policies for climate resilience requires identification of farmers who most extreme events like dry spells. We develop a novel approach conceptualizing spell at the farm scale terms monsoon crop water deficit. Using inpu...

Abstract In the eastern rainforests of Madagascar, rainfed swidden rice cultivation remains prevalent despite efforts to encourage uptake irrigated systems reduce deforestation. We used agricultural surveys with a stratified sample 171 households investigate constraints on and productivity perceived by farmers, actual yields. Irrigated plots had higher median yields (1.72 t/ha compared 0.62 t/h...

Gunungkidul Regency is one of the districts that developed dry land red rice farming. Semin and Panggang sub-districts are develop varieties at Inpari 24 Segreng. This study aims to determine costs, income, profits, feasibility farming Segreng variety in Regency. The number respondents this were 250 using Simple Random Sampling technique, consisting 150 from farmers 100 farmers. Data was collec...

Forage sorghum is considered to be the most heat and drought resistant summer forage with a fairly high green forage yield. Forage sorghum is more economical to grow as compared to forage maize with fairly high economic returns. The total area under forages in 2012 in Punjab was 1.82 million hectares with green forage production of 38.8 million tons. The land area of Punjab under forage sorghum...

Abstract Agricultural research institutes in Sub-Sahara Africa have focused on establishing farmer groups that facilitate the commercial production and marketing of African Indigenous Vegetables (AIVs) to address food nutritional security. With freedom selecting choices market outlets, we explored factors such as farmers’ characteristics, farm attributes, selling preferences, social relations, ...

High yielding crop production technologies became available for farmers in irrigated favorable agricultural ecosystems from 1960’s known as Green Revolution, while 77% of world arable land (~1,086Mha in 2014, FAOSTAT) is estimated without irrigation and prone to water shortage or drought (a disaster from a shortage of rainfall and available water on agriculture and other human lives). Greater d...

Mexico depends on maize imports to satisfy its national demand. The use of native varieties among subsistence farmers can help reduce the cereal’s imports. However, agricultural policy in improve productivity per hectare has centered improved varieties; them, transgenic variety. In this study, from 1983 2018 was analyzed determine influence policies sector, and factors that condition adoption m...

Scientific evidence suggests that there is room for eradicating poverty and hunger by increasing food production through the adoption of modern agricultural practices farmers. This study aimed, first, to explore relationship between farmers’ awareness improved wheat varieties. Second, it aimed find key factors govern extension-recommended innovations in rainfed cropping system Khyber Pakhtunkhw...

Behavioral game experiments, spatial econometrics, and household survey are blended in a single study to investigate how the experience of collective irrigation management facilitates the spillover of social behaviors among neighbors. Dictator game and public goods game experiments are conducted to quantitatively elicit altruistic behavior and contributory behavior, respectively, of rice farmer...