Body height and mass were determined in girls aged 10.5-18.5 years in three periods: 1977 (n = 1028), 1987 (n = 1255) and in 1997 (n = 1992). The families of those girls were classified into three categories: farmers, farmer-workers and non-farmers. The economical crisis affected predominantly the rural non-farmer population while farmers were most independent from food rationing. After the cha...

This study determined impact of rural infrastructures (provision of water supply, and feeder roads) by Ebonyi State Agricultural Development programme (EBADEP) on farmers’ agricultural practices and socio economic status. Two research questions guided the study. The study made use of survey design. The study was carried out in Ebonyi State Nigeria. The Population for the study was 398 made up o...

Kenyan farmers’ livelihoods are closely linked to climate conditions. Almost three-quarters of the labor force depend on agriculture for their livelihoods, and almost all farmers depend on timely and adequate rainfall for crop production and husbandry, as only 2 percent of cultivated area is equipped for irrigation. Thus, climate variability and change will have an increasing impact on agricult...

Drawing upon unique transaction-level data from rural Ethiopia, this paper tests for general forms of imperfect competition among rural wholesale traders. These are key to the grain distribution system as they purchase from farmers and perform interregional trade. Tests show that traders in a typical source market engage in imperfectly competitive behavior in purchasing from farmers, driving do...

agricultural risks affect farmers’ livelihood and income, and exert detrimental influence on the environment leading farmers and rural labor to poverty. hence, farmers should try to manage the risks. the purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to address the determinants of risk management strategies applied by corn growers in kermanshah township. the statistical population of the s...

This study measures farmers' risk attitudes in rural China using a survey instrument and a complementary experiment conducted in the field with the same sample of subjects. Using a question asking people about their willingness to take risks "in general", we found that the average response of our sample is slightly risk averse. Farmers' exogenous factors (age, gender, and height) and self-repor...

The study was undertaken to obtain baseline information on socio-economic status of rural pig farmers and different management practices in Tripura. A total of 200 rural households owning pigs were interviewed randomly. In the study, the most of the pig farmers were female (76.5%) and small proportion was male (23.5%). Majority of pig farmers were ST (68%) followed by SC (28%) and a small propo...

The present study was carried out to know the rural livelihood sustainability of suicideprone farmers families of Vidarbha. Total 60 families of suicide victim farmers were selected randomly from 46 villages for this study it covers total 9 Tahsils of 6 distress districts of Vidarbha. The study revealed that the rural livelihood sustainability of majority (83.33%) of the families was found to b...

abstractthe challenges of agroforestry systems’ adoption by farmers in the north central zone of nigeria, was carried out to address the following objectives; find out the perception of farmers on agroforestry technologies, identify the adoption level and ascertain why farmers discontinue agroforestry adoption.. data were collected from 722 agroforestry farmers out of 782 sets of questionnaire ...