Author: Cynthia Nickerson
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: limited, resource, socially, disadvantaged, beginning, farmers, conservation, programs, targeted, participation
Number of Pages: 41
Published: 2010-08
ISBN-10: 1437926614
ISBN-13: 9781437926613

Beginning, limited-resource, and socially disadvantaged farmers make up 40% of all U.S. farms. Some Federal conservation programs contain provisions that encourage participation by such żtargetedż farmers. This report compares the natural resource characteristics, resource issues, and conservation treatment costs on farms operated by targeted farmers with those of other participants. Targeted farmers tend to operate more environmentally sensitive land than other farmers, have different conservation priorities, and receive different levels of payments. The different conservation priorities am

Author: International Rice Research Institute
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Keywords: farmers, listening, irri
Number of Pages: 39
Published: 1996
ISBN-10: 9712200884
ISBN-13: 9789712200885

For the 1995-96 Corporate Report, "listening to our farmer partners"was chosen as the theme. Many of the personalized accounts of the farmers presented in the Report convey the role of farmers as co-researchers - rather than only as recipients of research outcomes. Rice farmers in the developing world traditionally conduct experiments with their rice crops. Their experiments, and the evaluation of the outcomes, have had to be as relevant and creative as any trials carried out by scientists, as the economic and even physical survival of the farmers and their families has been totally dependent

Author: John Howell
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Keywords: farmers, small, decentralization, participation, issues, management, development, organization, agricultural
Number of Pages: 60
Published: 1992
ISBN-10: 9251031339
ISBN-13: 9789251031339

Author: Paul A. Francis
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Keywords: zambia, agriculture, sector, reform, policy, farmers, participatory, assessment, listening
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 1997-09
ISBN-10: 0821340298
ISBN-13: 9780821340295

World Bank Technical Paper No. 375.Since 1991 radical changes have taken place in the policy and institutional environment of agriculture in Zambia. This study examines the impact such changes have had on farmers. It highlights farmers' perceptions and priorities regarding constraints on production and quality of agricultural services by drawing on the findings of quantitative survey data, participatory surveys, and beneficiary assessments. The paper outlines the coping strategies that farmers have adopted, including changes in farming practices (such as reverting to subsistence crops and trad

Author: Kamiljon T. Akramov
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Keywords: input, nigeria, determinants, services, agricultural, decentralization
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2009
eBookDB-ID: GGKEY:WDYG

Using a large household survey data, this study examines the impact of government involvement in agricultural service provision on the use of modern inputs by farmers in Nigeria. The empirical methodology used in this study is based on the multilevel (nested) mixed effects estimator and controls for systematic differences and unobserved heterogeneity across sub-national governments. The empirical findings suggest that government involvement in agricultural service provision positively influences the farmers' input use. However, wealthier farmers are more likely than poor farmers to benefit fro

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
Keywords: workshop, american, goi�na, brazil, april, latin, proceedings, multiplication, resource, limited, farmers, seed
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 9251052174
ISBN-13: 9789251052174

FAO, through its Seed and Plant Genetics Resources Service, is conducting a series of expert consultations, workshops and conferences to generate ideas, develop methodologies and facilitate initiatives aimed at strengthening on-farm seed multiplication (the informal seed system), thereby addressing the seed security needs of smallholder farmers. As in sub-Saharan Africa, the informal seed system in Latin America receives inadequate attention from policy-makers and is not accorded the importance it deserves in the agricultural production system. The Latin American Workshop on Seed Multiplicatio

Author: Lisa Shames
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Keywords: prices, estab, res, concen, econ, affected, trends, received, food, retail, faster, farmers, agriculture, commodities
Number of Pages: 42
Published: 2010-01
ISBN-10: 1437920659
ISBN-13: 9781437920659

Over the past 25 years, farmers have received a decreasing share of the consumer food dollar. Some analysts and farm interest groups are concerned that this decline can be attributed, in part, to increasing concentration in ag. Firms in highly concentrated markets may be able to exert market power by raising retail food prices while also depressing prices farmers receive for ag. commodities. This report provides info. on: (1) trends in concentration for various levels of the food marketing chain in major ag. sectors; (2) trends in retail food expenditures and prices; (3) trends in prices farme