Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study Provincial reports written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing. These five volumes document the development of recommendations for agricultural interventions supporting subsistence agriculture and income-generating activities for rural communities in Solomon Islands."--AusAID website.
Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study Main findings and recommendations written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing. These five volumes document the development of recommendations for agricultural interventions supporting subsistence agriculture and income-generating activities for rural communities in Solomon Islands."--AusAID website.
Download or read book Smallholder Agriculture in Solomon Islands written by S. Jones and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study Subsistence production livestock and social analysis written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing. These five volumes document the development of recommendations for agricultural interventions supporting subsistence agriculture and income-generating activities for rural communities in Solomon Islands."--AusAID website.
Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study Markets and marketing issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing. These five volumes document the development of recommendations for agricultural interventions supporting subsistence agriculture and income-generating activities for rural communities in Solomon Islands."--AusAID website.
Download or read book Solomon Islands Smallholder Agriculture Study Literature review written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Eighty-four per cent of people in Solomon Islands live in rural areas. The vast majority of these people derive their livelihoods from subsistence agriculture and small-scale income generating activities, particularly export cash cropping and fresh produce marketing. These five volumes document the development of recommendations for agricultural interventions supporting subsistence agriculture and income-generating activities for rural communities in Solomon Islands."--AusAID website.
Download or read book Small Landholders Battle the Leaf Folder written by Dalia Tayseer Najjar and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweet Potato is an important staple food crop grown by subsistence farmers in the Solomon Islands. It plays an important food security role and a major source of nutrition and livelihood in the rural areas as well as urban areas in the country. However, the spread of agricultural pests, in particular, the green leaf folder pest (Psara hipponalis), has significantly increased in recent years leaving many smallholder farmers with reduced yields and food insecurity. In this thesis, I reviewed the literature on the common mechanisms used to evaluate the drivers of pest presence and identified the major factors correlated with the presence of sweet potato leaf folder pest in four communities in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. Twenty garden surveys were conducted in each community by researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, with support from the Solomon Island Community Conservation Partnership, the World Vegetable Center and Ecological Solutions Solomon Islands, giving a total of 80 surveys. A structured questionnaire was used and consisted of three categories: pest presence, agrobiodiversity, and the use of cultural controls. Farmers were asked if they had seen the green leaf folder pest in their gardens in the ten days prior to their interview. The assessment of agrobiodiversity in the surveys covered the number of crops grown in the gardens visited. The use of cultural controls included questions on whether farmers use crop mulching, rotation or both activities, and whether farmers apply chemical pesticides in their gardens. Control variables including the presence of Braconid wasps and weather parameters such as temperature, precipitation and relative humidity were also included to evaluate their effect on pest presence. A probit regression analysis was conducted to test the association between pest presence and climate and farmer-level factors. Practicing a combination of both mulching and crop shifting activities has shown to have the most significant effect in reducing the green leaf folder pest presence. In addition, crop diversification has also played a significant but a lesser role in determining the likelihood of observing the green leaf folder pest in the Solomon Islands. In contrast, the application of chemical pesticides as well as the presence of Braconid wasps did not show any significant effects on the green leaf folder pest in this study. Moreover, among weather variables, precipitation has shown to be the only statistically significant variable correlated with the green leaf folder presence in the Solomon Islands. Based on the findings of this study, the following recommendations can be made: (1) the application of cultural control activities such as using the combination of both mulching and crop shifting should be demonstrated to subsistence farmers to reduce the green leaf folder pest presence, and (2) improved varieties of major food crops such as taro and cassava should be introduced more widely to communities to limit the present of green leaf folder pest.
Download or read book Socio economic Survey of Smallholder Farming Systems in Solomon Islands written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Issues in South Pacific Agricultural Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Resource Use and Consumption in Smallholder Households in Solomon Islands written by E. M. Fleming and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sample Survey of Solomon Islander Smallholder Agriculture written by G. J. Eele and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 1974 75 Agricultural Statistics Survey written by G. J. Eele and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Food Security in Small Island States written by John Connell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a contemporary overview of the social-ecological and economic vulnerabilities that produce food and nutrition insecurity in various small island contexts, including both high islands and atolls, from the Pacific to the Caribbean. It examines the historical and contemporary circumstances that have accompanied the shift from subsistence production to the consumption of imported, processed foods and drinks, and the impact of this transition on nutrition and the rise of non-communicable diseases. It also assesses the challenges involved in reversing this trend, and how more effective social and economic policies, agricultural and fisheries strategies, and governance arrangements could promote more resilient and sustainable small island food systems. It offers both theoretical and practical perspectives, and brings together a broad range of policy areas, e.g. agriculture, food, commerce, health, planning and socio-economic policy. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for a range of disciplines in a number of regional contexts, and for the growing number of scholars and practitioners working on and in small island states. It will be of particular value as the first book to examine the diversity and commonalities of island states around the globe as they confront issues of food security.
Download or read book Pacific 2010 written by J. B. Hardaker and published by Asia Pacific Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the 'Pacific 2010' series which focuses on the need to plan for the long term requirements of the island states of the South Pacific. Addresses strategic questions about the longer-term development of Melanesian agriculture in the light of current problems and emerging trends in the environment. Suggests ways of changing agriculture to become a powerful part of Melanesian economies by the year 2010. Includes a bibliography and index. J Brian Hardaker is professor and head of the Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management at the University of New England. Euan Fleming is a lecturer in agricultural economies at the University of New England.
Download or read book Smallholder Agriculture in Tonga written by J. B. Hardaker and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1988 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Databases of the South Pacific Smallholder Project Solomon Islands written by J. B. Hardaker and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
