Search Results - "marginalism"

Unlocking the potential of dryland underutilised crops through market linkages approaches by Gichuru, Lilian, Mbulwe, Lloyd, Lwinya, Kabosha, Binagwa, Papias Hongera

“…These drought-tolerant, nutrient-rich crops are well-adapted to thrive in marginal environments where staple crops like maize struggle, yet they remain undervalued due to policy gaps, limited market access, and low awareness of their benefits. …”
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Patch clearcutting to regenerate mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla King) and sustain forest value in the Mayan ejidos of Mexico [poster] by Snook, Laura K., Negreros-Castillo, P.

“…Effects of cleaning were marginal on burned clearings and not significant on machine-made clearings. …”
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An impact evaluation of technology adoption by smallholders in Sichuan, China: The case of sweet potato-pig systems by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Nguyen Ngoc Toan, Chengyi Zou, Jinyuan Liu, Xianglin Li, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…Results indicate positive net benefit from adoption of sweet potato-based feeding technology, i.e., gross margin estimates of silage adopters are on average higher by 2-4 RMB per kg liveweight of output than non-adopters of similar characteristics. …”
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Kenya adaptation to climate change in the arid lands: anticipating, adapting to and coping with climate risks in Kenya - operational recommendations for KACCAL by Mude, Andrew G., Ouma, R., Steeg, Jeannette van de, Kaiuki, J., Opiyo, D., Tipilda, A.

“…Currently, these populations are among the poorest in Kenya, suffer from a weak natural resource base, are negatively affected by socio-economic and demographic trends that see a growing population depending on diminishing rangelands, and are relatively marginalized from the growing economy. Add to this the impacts of climate change, of which the recent severe and extended droughts of 2001, 2004–06 and the widespread flooding in 2007 are an early signal, and the livelihood threats to the communities of Kenya’s arid and semi-arid lands (ASAL) are clear and present.…”
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Characteristics of live animal allometric measurements associated with body fat in fat-tailed sheep by Ermias, E., Rege, J.E.O.

“…However, the precision of estimation of TotEE was marginal in the Horro (R250%). Heritability estimates for LW, TT, TL and TV ranged from 0.37 to 0.54, while estimates for BCS, TW and TC were less than 0.25. …”
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Traditional milk market in Assam: Potential for income and employment generation by Kumar, A., Staal, Steven J., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Lapar, Ma. Lucila

“…In this backdrop, this study was undertaken with the objectives of (i) examining the costs and returns in traditional milk marketing and processing, (ii) estimating the milk producer's share in consumer rupee and marketing margins of different actors in the marketing chain, (iii) assessing the potential of traditional milk market in employment generation, and (iv) identifying the factors for scaling up the volume of business of the informal milk market agents in the state. …”
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Livestock feed production and marketing in Central and North Rift Valley Regions of Kenya by Nangole, E., Lukuyu, Ben A., Franzel, Steven, Kinuthia, E., Baltenweck, Isabelle, Kirui, Josephine

“…Most traded fodder had low gross margins (GM) although foodfeed crops such as oats, sweet potato, etc tended to have higher GM. …”
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Adapting to climate change: agricultural system and household impacts in East Africa by Thornton, Philip K., Jones, Peter G., Alagarswamy, G., Andresen, J., Herrero, Mario

“…Systems will have to intensify substantially in response, particularly in the better-endowed mixed systems in the region. For the more marginal areas, the variability in yield response, and the variability in households’ ability to adapt, suggest that, even given the limitations of this analysis, adaptation options need to be assessed at the level of the household and the local community, if research for development is to meet its poverty alleviation and food security targets in the face of global change.…”
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Marshalling water resources: a chronology of irrigation development in the Chi-Mun River Basin, Northeast Thailand by Floch, P., Molle, Francois

“…Irrigation development in northeast Thailand has witnessed an eventful last century. The 'dry' and 'marginal' lands of northeast Thailand have been continuously reshaped, in an attempt to both balance the seasonality of rainfall and to counter the in-season variations that constrains rainfed cultivation. …”
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Effect of planting technique and amendment type on pearl millet yield, nutrient uptake, and water use on degraded land in Niger by Fatondji, D., Martius, C., Bielders, Charles L., Vlek, Paul L.G., Bationo, B. André, Gerard, Bruno G.

“…Due to increased population pressure and limited availability of fertile land, farmers on desert fringes increasingly rely on marginal land for agricultural production, which they have learned to rehabilitate with different technologies for soils and water conservation. …”
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Catchment-scale spatial variability of soil properties and implications on site-specific soil management in northern Ethiopia by Brhane Tesfahunegn, Gebrayesus, Tamene, Lulseged D., Vlek, Paul L.G.

“…The lowest soil nutrients and fine soil particles were measured on the sub-sampling zones such as low soil quality, eroded sites, and marginal land soils. Introducing appropriate interventions such as conservation tillage, fertilizer rates, agro-forestry practices, crop rotation, exclosure degraded lands, and conservation measures based on the kriged soil properties maps produced is crucial for sustainable production and environmental services.…”
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Enabling rural innovation in Africa : An approach for integrating farmer participatory research and market orientation for building the assets of rural poor by Sanginga, Pascal C., Best, R., Chitsike, C., Delve, Robert J., Kaaria, Susan K., Kirkby, Roger A.

“…ERI uses participatory processes to build the capacities of farmers’ groups and rural communities in marginal areas to identify and evaluate market opportunities, develop profitable agroenterprises, intensify production through experimentation, while sustaining the resources upon which their livelihoods depend. …”
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Incidence of animal diseases and their current and future impacts on crop-livestock systems in West africa by McDermott, John J., Richard, D., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…This is evidenced by changes in tsetse challenge and trypanosomosis risk at the margins of tsetse distribution. An increase in future demand for livestock products will lead to a greater intensification of livestock production. …”
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Empirical evaluation of sustainability of divergent farms in the dryland farming systems of India by Haileslassie, Amare, Craufurd, Peter Q., Thiagarajah, R., Kumar, S., Whitbread, Anthony M., Rathor, A., Blümmel, Michael, Ericsson, P., Kakumanu, Krishna Reddy

“…The majority of farms (>70%) in the study area are small and extensive (typology 1);marginal and off farm based (typology 2). About 20% of the farms are irrigation based and intensive (typol-ogy 3); small and medium and off farm based (typology 4) and irrigation based semi-intensive (typology5). …”
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Effectiveness and sustainability of large scale soil and water conservation interventions in the sub-humid Ethiopian highlands: evidence from Debre Mawi watershed [Abstract only] by Dagnew, D., Guzmán, Christian D., Zegeye, Assefa D., Tebebu, Tigist Y., Akal, A., Mekuria, Wolde, Ayana, Essayas K., Tilahun, S., Steenhuis, Tammo S.

“…Though sediment concentration decreased in the sub-watersheds, it decreased only marginally for the main watershed because of the entrainment of loose soil from the collapse of unstable banks of gullies. …”
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Gender dimensions on farmers’ preferences for direct-seeded rice with drum seeder in India by Khan, Mohammed Tajuddin, Kishore, Avinash, Joshi, Pramod K.

“…Although both male and female farmers prefer cheaper drum seeders, the marginal valuation of different attributes of the drum seeder varies by the farmers’ gender. …”
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Participatory Multi-Environmental Trials (MET) identified promising durum wheat landraces in Northern Ethiopia by Mengistu, D.K., Kiros, A.Y., Mohammed, J.N., Fadda, Carlo

“…Participatory varietal selection (PVS) is a powerful tool in identifying crops varieties with high acceptance probability in marginal environments because participant farmers evaluate the genotypes not only from yield perspective but also from stress tolerance perspective. …”
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Production, marketing and value chain mapping of 'Srijana' tomato hybrid seed in Nepal by Magar, D.B.T., Gauchan, D.

“…Agro-vets (private sector seed dealers) were the major actors receiving higher profit margins for supplying the seed from producers to farms. …”
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The agronomic and economic benefits of fertilizer and mulch use in highland banana systems in Uganda by Wairegi, L.W.I., Asten, Piet J.A. van

“…Consequently, average marginal rate of return (MRR) of fertilizer and mulch use ranged from 0.1 (Southwest) to 5.8 (Central). …”
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Cultivating the landscape: Enhancing the context for plant improvement by Mazhar, Farhad, Buckles, Daniel

“…It is clear from what research has been undertaken that the poor and the marginal populations retain the culinary art, knowledge, and skill that took hundreds of years to evolve. …”
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