Resultados de búsqueda - "commercial farming"

Environmental risks from pesticide use: the case of commercial banana farming in northern Lao PDR por Wentworth, A., Pavelic, Paul, Kongmany, S., Sotoukee, T., Sengphaxaiyalath, K., Phomkeona, K., Deevanhxay, P., Chounlamany, V., Manivong, V.

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Agricultural value chains: How cities reshape food systems por Minten, Bart, Reardon, Thomas, Chen, Kevin Z.

Materias: “…commercial farming…”
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GMOs in Zambia por Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Issues related to GMO in small scale and commercial farming in Zambia…”
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Democratic Republic of Congo’s agrifood system structure and drivers of transformation por Diao, Xinshen, Randriamamonjy, Josee, Thurlow, James, Ulimwengu, John M., Ellis, Mia

“…The main crops are cassava, maize, yams, plantains, and rice (FAO 2019). Commercial farming of cash crops such as coffee, palm oil, rubber, and sugar is done on a smaller scale. …”
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Leveraging ICT innovations to support farmers and farmers’ organisations por Boyera, Stéphane, Addison, Chris

“…However, the smallholder farmer is being left behind as more data applications are developed for commercial farming. There is a need to better empower smallholder farmers to leverage information and communications technology (ICT) innovations for greater productivity and efficiency.…”
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Transforming African Agriculture por CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…Nyiira Mijumbi Zerubabel from the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries of the Republic of Uganda talks about agriculture, commercial farming and peasant income. The Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) in collaboration with the Government of Ghana will convene the 6th Africa Agriculture Science Week from July 15-19 in Accra, a continental gathering of all stakeholders involved in African agriculture. …”
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Environmental Performance of Grazing Beef Cattle Systems in the Well- Drained Neotropical Savannas of Colombia: A Review of Results from Modelling Research por Ramírez Restrepo, Carlos Alberto, Vera Infanzón, Raul R., Rao, Idupulapati M.

“…This paper is based on results obtained on live weight (LW) dynamics and it reviews the carbon (C) footprint of cattle- pasture systems where cattle were experimentally tested following representative commercial farming practices in the Colombian well-drained native neotropical savannas. …”
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East African agriculture and climate change: A comprehensive analysis - Eritrea por Ghebru, Bissrat, Araia, Woldeamlak, Ogbazghi, Woldeselassie, Gebreselassie, Menghisteab, Thomas, Timothy S.

“…Eritrea has several agricultural systems: rainfed cereal and pulses; semi-commercial and periurban agriculture; small-scale irrigated horticulture; commercial farming; agropastoral rainfed farming; and agropastoral spate irrigation systems. …”
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Evaluating equity impacts of animal disease control: The case of foot and mouth disease in Zimbabwe por Randolph, Thomas F., Morrison, J.A., Poulton, C.

“…To maintain freedom from FMD, a zonation system implemented with fencing and movement controls has been used to protect a central export zone where much of the large-scale commercial farming is concentrated. Since 2001, Zimbabwe has suffered a series of FMD outbreaks, leading to a ban on the export of many livestock products, including beef. …”
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Advancing sustainable and resilient agriculture in Eastern Nepal's middle hills por International Water Management Institute

“…In Nepal’s middle hills, small landholdings and persistent challenges—such as limited irrigation, transportation, and market access—have long constrained commercial farming and mono-cropping. However, mixed farming systems are proving to be a resilient and sustainable solution for these communities. …”
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Evolution of land policies and legislation in Malawi and Zimbabwe: implications for forestry development por Mataya, C., Gondo, P., Kowero, G.S.

“…The two countries share similar patterns of land ownership; customary or tribal trust land designated by colonial governments for settlement and cultivation by the indigeneous populations; private land mostly alienated from local communities for commercial farming and ranching; initially by white settlers and later officially sanctioned by post-colonial governments; and public land appropriated by governments for purposes of establishing national parks and forest reserves. …”
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Silent transitions: commercialization and changing customary land tenure systems in upland Laos por Suhardiman, Diana, Phayouphorn, A.-M., Gueguen, A., Rigg, J.

“…Taking Khwaykham village in Phongsaly province, Laos as a case study, this paper sheds light on this question as farm households in the settlement have progressively transitioned to commercial farming, specifically tea cultivation. Traditionally, farm households’ access and rights to use the land were embedded in their swidden agriculture practices. …”
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Status, challenges, and opportunities of mixed farming system in Bangladesh por Nasim, Muhammad, Ahmed, S., Chowdhury, Dipok, Bhandari, Humnath

“…The results showed that the current MFSs were characterized by a mixture of subsistence and commercial farming and intensive and small-scale land ownership. …”
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The transformation of the Afar Commons in Ethiopia: State coercion, diversification, and property rights change among pastoralists por Hundie, Bekele, Padmanabhan, Martina

“…The first case portrays the conflictive transformation of the traditional land use arrangements of Afar pastoralists, which resulted from coercive state intervention aimed at expanding commercial farming, while the second case shows a nonconflictive change induced by recurrent droughts in the presence of support from the state.…”
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Resource integration for multiple benefits: Multifunctionality of integrated farming systems in Northeast Thailand por Tipraqsa, P., Craswell, E.T., Noble, A.D., Schmidt-Vogt, D.

“…Integrated farming systems were found to outperform the normal or commercial farming systems in all four dimensions of a multifunctional agriculture: food security, environmental functions, economic functions, and social functions. …”
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Ghana’s agricultural transformation: Past patterns and sources of change por Hazell, Peter B. R., Diao, Xinshen, Magalhaes, Eduardo

“…As more small farm households are attracted into nonfarm activities, farms become more consolidated, rural wages rise, and rural youth become better educated, more emphasis will be needed on the development of technologies and commercial farming practices that raise land as well as labor productivity, are attractive to young farmers, and meet the needs of Ghana’s increasingly urbanized food system.…”
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Understanding the pathways to improved diets from the production of nutritious and marketable commodities por Aberman, Noora-Lisa, Roopnaraine, Terry

“…What is clear is that there are a variety of constraints posed by commercial farming that can impede positive dietary changes. …”
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Distributions of the vectors of heartwater, Amblyomma hebraeum and amblyomma variegatum (Acari: Ixodidae), in Zimbabwe por Peter, T.F., Perry, Brian D., O'Callaghan, C.J., Medley, G.F., Shumba, W., Madzima, W., Burridge, M.J., Mahan, S.M.

“…To determine the current distributions of both the vectors and evaluate the potential threat of heartwater to animals in the highveld, a survey of ticks infesting cattle was performed in 1996 at 2994 locations in small-holder and large-scale commercial farming areas throughout Zimbabwe. Amblyomma hebraeum was collected at 1329 locations, a. variegatum at 72 locations and both A. hebraeum and A. variegatum at 13 locations. …”
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Odling av baljväxter för humankonsumtion i Sverige : en handbok som beskriver de biologiska och teknologiska förutsättningarna för att odla baljväxter till livsmedel por Eriksson, Niklas

Termite-induced injuries to maize and baby corn under organic and conventional farming systems in the Central Highlands of Kenya por Anyango, J.J., Bautze, D., Fiaboe, K.K.M., Lagat, Z.O., Muriuki, A.W., Stöckli, S., Onyambu, G.K., Musyoka, M.W., Karanja, E.N., Adamtey, N.

“…The farming systems were established in 2007 at two input levels: Low input level, representing subsistence farming (Conv-Low, Org-Low) and high input level, representing commercial farming (Conv-High, Org-High). Termite-induced injuries to maize and baby corn, such as tunneling the stem or lodging the whole plant were assessed over two cropping seasons. …”
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