This study analyzes the level and determinants of technical efficiency of soybean farms in the Saboba and Chereponi districts of northern Ghana. A multi-stage sampling technique was used to select 200 soybean farmers from which cross-sectional data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Data collected includes farmers’ socio-economic characteristics such as age and education as well as...

 Farmers will have to increase production levels to provide food for a growing population, while meeting the current and future welfare and environmental targets and legislation.  There has been a steady decline in the number of farms, farmers and livestock in the UK, with an increase in the average farm size.  Proposed UK super farms are smaller in scale compared to some of the world’s larg...

This article assesses land ownership patterns among small-scale producers of non-traditional fruit exports (NTAX) in El Palqui, Chile, in the context of the country’s extensive neoliberal reforms during dictatorial rule from 19731989 and their continuation under successive democratic Concertación governments since 1990. It reports on work that revisits an export boom locality ten years after an...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether pig farmers had inflammation of the bronchial mucosa and activation of bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) cells. Pig farmers are exposed to high dust levels and have a prevalence of work-related respiratory symptoms. Bronchoscopy and BAL were performed in 27 young large-scale pig farmers, who had never smoked. Fifty three lifetime nonsmoking health...

The study determined the willingness and capacity of poultry farmers to pay for extension services in Nasarawa State, Nigeria. At this research used a sample size of 120 poultry farmers. Simple descriptive statistics, Kuppuswamy scale and Logit regression model were used data analysis. The results showed that majority of the poultry farmers (87.5%) indicated their willingness to pay for extensi...

Climate change is increasing water scarcity in Sri Lanka. Whether these changes will undermine national-level food security depends upon the ability of the small-scale farmers that dominate rice production and the institutions that support them to overcome the challenges presented by changing water availability. Analyzing household survey data, this research identifies household, institutional,...

Industry and mainstream research and policy institutions often suggest that transgenic crop varieties can raise the productivity of poor third world farmers, feed the hungry, and reduce poverty. These claims are critically evaluated by examining global-hunger data, the constraints that affect the productivity of small farmers in the third world, and the factors that explain their poverty. No si...

in the U.S. Southwest, and with farmers on an irrigation project in northern Pakistan. He is currently beginning research with small-scale farmers in Oaxaca, Mexico, on the role of yield stabilThe World’s Crop ity in farmer management of maize varieties and household risk, with the goal of identifying ways for farmers to work with formal plant breeders in developing improved varieties. Genetic ...

The proposed conceptual framework explores how small-scale farms can combine agricultural products and tourism into an eco-innovation strategy. This paper presents a case study conducted on a family-run farm within the territory of the Paiwan tribal community of the North Dawu Mountain situated in the Central Mountain Range of Taiwan. The area has become an important coffee-farming region since...

Our research goal was to assess exposure to currently used pesticides among small-scale male farmers residing in two topographically different areas in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand. Farmers (N=136) were recruited from Pong Yaeng subdistrict (N=67) and Inthakhin subdistrict (N=69). Each farmer provided a morning urine void for the analysis of 30 urinary metabolites of insecticides, herbicides, ...