Essays about: "Smallholder Farmers"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 112 essays containing the words Smallholder Farmers.

  1. 26. Finance and Mobile Money for Rural Development: The case of Smallholder Farmers in Haiti

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Anne Lobke Grootenhuis; [2020]
    Keywords : mobile money; smallholder farmers; rural finance; smallholder farmer finance; Haiti; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Globally, 500 million smallholder farmers require finance to secure a more productive, efficient, sustainable, and inclusive food system. Thus far, traditional financial services have been unsuccessful in reaching these farmers. READ MORE

  3. 27. Agricultural resilience building at the farm level in Malawi : the relevance of indigenous knowledge

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jana Schmidt; [2020]
    Keywords : climate change adaptation; agriculture; indigenous knowledge; resilience building; Malawi; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Anthropogenic climate change poses new challenges to smallholder farmers in the Global South. At the farm level, science-based adaptation measures, as well as farmers’ autonomous responses based on indigenous knowledge, are simultaneously in use. READ MORE

  4. 28. Agricultural vulnerability to changing rainfall patterns: Assessing the role of smallholder farmers’ perceptions and access to weather forecast information in adaptation-decision making : case study of the North-Western provinces, Rwanda

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Didier Muyiramye; [2020]
    Keywords : vulnerability; perception; weather forecast information; changing rainfall patterns; heavy rainfalls; floods; smallholder farmers; adaptation;

    Abstract : Adverse weather is currently among the crucial challenges facing agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa. With climate change and variability increasing, rainy seasons are becoming more and more unpredictable. Heavy rainfalls and severe flooding have increased, affecting smallholder farming and rural livelihoods considerably. READ MORE

  5. 29. Contract Farming and Multidimensional Poverty

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Simon Meister; [2020]
    Keywords : Contract Farming; Multidimensional Poverty; Smallholder Farmers; Developing Countries; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Poverty is a common phenomenon among rural smallholder farmer households in developing countries. A large corpus of literature suggests that contract farming -a pre-harvest agreement between farmers and buyers- can improve smallholder farmers' welfare through improved access to markets and thereby promote rural development. READ MORE

  6. 30. Farmer knowledge sharing and social networks in agricultural extension : farmer perceptions from six Indonesian villages

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

    Author : Louise Ramberg; [2020]
    Keywords : agricultural extension; Village Learning Centers; knowledge sharing; social networks; farmers; Yogyakarta; Indonesia;

    Abstract : This thesis is an empirical exploration of knowledge sharing and social networks among farmers in a context of agricultural extension. The exploration takes off from the development of the field of extension, examined in a literature review. READ MORE