Download or read book An Exploratory Survey of the Farming Systems of Southern Kaduna State written by and published by . This book was released on 1987* with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farming Systems Overview written by Odinga Arthur Hudson Jere and published by . This book was released on 197? with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Participatory Research and Gender Analysis written by Nina Lilja and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural development research aims to generate new knowledge or to retrieve and apply existing forms of knowledge in ways that can be used to improve the welfare of people who are living in poverty or are otherwise excluded, for instance by gender-based discrimination. Its effective application therefore requires ongoing dialogue with and the strong engagement of men and women from poor marginal farming communities. This book discusses opportunities afforded by effective knowledge pathways linking researchers and farmers, underpinned by participatory research and gender analysis. It sets out practices and debates in gender-sensitive participatory research and technology development, concentrating on the empirical issues of implementation, impact assessment, and institutionalisation of approaches for the wider development and research community. It includes six full-length chapters and eight brief practical notes and is enhanced by an annotated resources list of relevant publications, organisations, and websites adding to the portfolio of approaches and tools discussed by the contributors. Most of the 33 contributing authors work in the specialised agencies that form part of the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). This book was published as a special issue of Development in Practice.
Download or read book Report of an Exploratory Workshop on the Role of Anthropologists and Other Social Scientists in Interdisciplinary Teams Developing Improved Food Production Technology written by International Rice Research Institute and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interdisciplinary development and transfer of postharvest technology at the International Potato Center; Social organization and small watershed development; Rice insect pest management technology and its transfer to small-scale farmers in the Philippines; A new reality: Western technology faces pastoralism in the Maasai Project; Socioeconomic use of aerial survey and intervention testing for interdisciplinary research; The role of a cognitive anthropologist in a farming systems program that has everything.
Download or read book Comprehensive Dissertation Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Europa World of Learning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Crop Residues in Sustainable Mixed Crop livestock Farming Systems written by C. Renard and published by Cabi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological constraints and opportunities in relation to class of livestock and production objectives; Trhe influence of socioeconomic factors on the availability and utilization of crop residues as animal feeds; Crop residues in Tropical Africa: trends in supply, demand and use; Cowpea and its improvement: key to sustainable mixed crop/livestock farming systems in West Africa; Dynamics of feed resources in mixed farming systems in Southeast, South Asia; West/Central Asia-North Africaand Latin America; Crop residues as a strategic resource in mixed farming systems; Alternatives to crop residues as feed resource in mixed farming systems; Alternatives to crop residues for soil amendment; Crop residues for feeding animals in Asia: technology development and adoption in crop/livestock systems; The national perspective: a synthesis of country reports presented at the Workshop.
Download or read book The Europa World of Learning written by Joseph Bascom St. John and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides: over 26,000 academic institutions, 150,000 staff and officials; extensive coverage of universities, colleges and other centres of learning; and detailed information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.
Download or read book Innovation in Climate Change Adaptation written by Walter Leal and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-16 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces innovative approaches to pursue climate change adaptation and to support the long-term implementation of climate change policies. Offering new case studies and data, as well as projects and initiatives implemented across the globe, the contributors present new tools, approaches and methods to pursue and facilitate innovation in climate change adaptation.
Download or read book Rural Development Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of Issues in Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advances in Integrated Soil Fertility Management in sub Saharan Africa Challenges and Opportunities written by Andre Bationo and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 1051 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Food insecurity is a fundamental challenge to human welfare and economic growth in Africa. Low agricultural production leads to low incomes, poor nutrition, vulnerability to risk and threat and lack of empowerment. This book offers a comprehensive synthesis of agricultural research and development experiences from sub-Saharan Africa. The text highlights practical lessons from the sub-Saharan Africa region.
Download or read book Market imperfections for tractor service provision in Nigeria written by Takeshima, Hiroyuki and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Nigeria, despite the scarcity of tractors, average horsepower and prices of tractors appear high. These patterns are different from the experiences in other parts of the world where initially tractor horsepower was often smaller, such as Asia, or farmers were better endowed with land and wealth, such as Latin America. In Nigeria, joint ownership of tractors is rare, and formal loans are often unavailable due to high transactions costs. IFPRI’s survey in Kaduna and Nasarawa states in 2013 suggested that the spatial mobility of tractors is generally low and the use of tractors is highly seasonal. There do not seem to be plausible explanations for the seeming dominance of large tractor use based on available information on prices and soils. Nevertheless, these patterns seem driven by the own initiative of the private sector rather than by government policies. Indivisibility of large tractors and limited mobility of supplies may cause imperfections in the custom tractor hiring market. In order to distinguish the impacts of technology adoption at the extensive margin from those at the intensive margin, in the empirical analyses for the research presented here we tested these hypotheses focusing on the differences among marginal adopters of tractor hiring services and non-adopters with similar characteristics. The results are three-fold: (1) adoptions patterns of tractor services are partly explained by basic factor endowments, suggesting that the market for custom hiring is in some way functioning efficiently in response to economic conditions; (2) adoptions are, however, affected by supply-side factors, including the presence of large farm households (and thus potential tractor owners) within the district, and (3) per capita household expenditure level differs significantly between the marginal adopters and non-adopters with similar characteristics. This difference seems to arise from adoption per se, rather than the intensity of adoption, which is consistent with the hypothesis of imperfection in the custom tractor hiring market.
Download or read book The Sustainability of Rice Farming written by D. J. Greenland and published by Cabi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The importance of the sustainability of rice farming; The origins and history of rice farming; Rice farming today; The biophysical basis of the sustainability of rice farming; Maintaining the nutrient requirements of rice; Maintaining water supplies for rice; Social and economic factors and the sustainability of rice farming; Concerns about the sustainability of rice faming; Increasing and sustaining rice production.
Download or read book The Report Nigeria 2017 written by and published by Oxford Business Group. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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