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...

The paper has discussed the income levels and livelihood issues of farmers on the basis of a large field study in Uttar Pradesh. The study has shown that agriculture is not able to provide sustenance to a large number of farmers in this state. The per-day per-capita income from agriculture has been found to be ̀ 15 for marginal farmers, ` 31 for small farmers, ` 45 for medium farmers and ` 84 fo...

Crop insurance is an appropriate way to overcome the risk in agricultural production sector and increase farmer’s peace of mind for their future income. In the agricultural sector of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer Ahmad, the risk of production is high due to the substantial losses of crops and other diseases and so is the income risk. Since most local farmers have low incomes and livelihoods, natural dis...

The study was conducted to document farmers' livelihood aspects and agribusiness potentials in wetland areas of Bangladesh. A total of 120 farmers and 24 service providers were interviewed for data collection. Most of the farmers were small farmers having less than 1.0 ha of cultivable land. The differences in productivity of crop farming and poultry rearing between wetland area and main land w...

One of the great challenges in agricultural development and sustainable intensification is the assurance of social equity in food security oriented interventions. Development practitioners, researchers, and policy makers alike could benefit from prior insight into what interventions or environmental shocks might differentially affect farmers' food security status, in order to move towards more ...

this article examines the livelihood strategies of land scarce peasants in ethiopian. land scarce peasants have a limited livelihood security on a sustainable manner and bypassed by major development programmes. the study was centred on two sets of rationales. first, for those peasants who do not have sufficient farmland, agriculture provides only a limited portion of households’ livelihood sec...

one of the obstacles that has caused agricultural sector not to reach significant and expected growth is shortage of short, medium and long–term funds to finance various activities of this sector. this study aims at investigating the economic impacts of credits granted by agricultural bank on farmers on hirmand region. the statistical population of the survey included 4691 farmers of hirmand re...

This article examines the livelihood strategies of land scarce peasants in Ethiopian. Land scarce peasants have a limited livelihood security on a sustainable manner and bypassed by major development programmes. The study was centred on two sets of rationales. First, for those peasants who do not have sufficient farmland, agriculture provides only a limited portion of households’ livelihood...