(Poulsen et al., 2015). Besides an income source, it can mitigate the impact of seasonal food consumption shocks. These social and economic benefits of urban agriculture are also equivocal because of their dependency on the region and the form of urban agriculture. For example, ground-based ...
Agriculture's share of national income fell from about 20 per cent in 1851 to 10 per cent by 1881 and 6 per cent in the first decade of the twentieth century (Collins 2000b: 9–10, 13). Agriculture's share of capital fell from three-fifths in 1832 to less than a quarter in 1885 ...
Here, the authors combine 29 meta-analyses revealing that tailored practices based on local conditions can boost NUEr by 30% with variation between high- and middle-income regions. Luncheng You Gerard H. Ros Wim de Vries ArticleOpen Access16 Sep 2023 Nature Communications A de novo evolved ...
Under the emblem of the green revolution, the transformation in the conventional agri-food system improved farm productivity, income, and food security. However, the agri-food systems failed to meet the food needs of all socio-economic classes equally or to protect farmers’ livelihoods (Spear, ...
Precision agriculture has become one of the leading solutions to combat food insecurity issues due to the Covid-19 pandemic. TheWorld Bank (2020)notes that as the Covid-19 crisis unfolded, it hitsfood production, disrupts food supply chains, creates a loss of income, and causes food insecurity...
Smoothing consumption under income seasonality: buffer stocks vs credit markets. Working paper. New York: Columbia University. 2002. Dercon S, Krishnan P. Vulnerability, seasonality and poverty in Ethiopia. J Dev Stud. 2000;36:25–53. Google Scholar Khandker SR. Seasonality of income and ...
In addition to this, it placed an emphasis on the significance of the development of leisure to agriculture, which is an important policy, and should be supported by many different sectors of society, because it is the source of income for rural people and it provides food for China’s ...
(Halloway2002), though not all are dependent on farming for a living. The beekeepers interviewed also seek to make income from their beekeeping but for none of the beekeepers is beekeeping their sole economic activity. Farmers often engaged in off-farm work. For each of the beekeepers and ...
Climate change has been predicted to significantly and negatively affect crop productivity and efficiency of crop production in low income countries (Arshad et al., 2017; Reed et al., 2017; Arshad et al., 2018). Climatic extremes such as floods and droughts also damage crop farming causing a...
Other studies have also shown that the income and benefits of farming have an impact on the willingness of farmers to engage in farming55,56. Although returns are highly attractive, the impact of the technology on returns is much smaller than the impact of the price of cotton. Secondly, the...