Sen, D. (2015) How Smallholder Farmers in Uttarakhand Reworked the System of Rice Intensification: Innovations from Sociotechnical Interactions in Fields and Villages, PhD thesis, Wageningen University: Wageningen UniversitySen, D. 2015. How smallholder farmers in Uttarakhand reworked the System of ...
Reasons for smallholder farmers discontinuing with low-cost micro-irrigation: A case study from Kenya The low head drip kit (micro-irrigation) was introduced in Kenya in the late 1990s. It consists of water containers, usually a bucket or a drum(s), raised ... IK Kulecho,EK Weatherhead -...
Many smallholder farmers operate without the benefit of accurate weather data, which can undermine crop yields, lead to crop losses, and negatively impact regional and global food security. Innovation by Microsoft and industry partners powered byAzure HPCis set to change this, at scale. The...
Speaking at a webinar entitledAgriculture’s Brave New World: Empowering Asia’s farmers in an era of Climate Change,he said that on top of erratic rainfall patterns and increasing temperatures, the pandemic has deepened existing challenges that smallholder farmers face in accessing finance. ...
Jessica Fanzo:Most of my work, where I started to really look outside of nutrition and look at the links between agriculture and the environment and diets, was in sub-Saharan Africa. And that was really working with smallholder farmers, many of them women, ...
That comes out to 450 million “smallholder” farmers, many of them women, concentrated in the developing world — Africa, Asia and South America — who are mostly ignored by more expensive smart farming solutions. All in the family SupPlant’s founders have a long pedigree with the l...
ACCAs Supply Chain Code of Conduct for SMEs LEARN MORE SMEs can also intentionally purchase to create positive impact through implementing a social procurement policy that supports Indigenous/ Maori businesses or smallholder farmers, agricultural producers of products such as chocolate, c...
In the case of smallholder farmers these circumstances may include soil conditions, access to markets, declining natural resources, and weakening of societal safety nets (Rurinda et al., 2014). They may also encompass systemic weaknesses, institutional constraints (Nelson et al., 2007) and ...
As the COVID-19 pandemic disrupts lives and livelihoods around the world, threatening topush up to half a billion people back into poverty, the importance of supporting smallholder farmers is more apparent than ever. “Food security is much worse for so many farmers” amidst the pandemic, Wiesn...
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges facing the world today threatening societies and the future of the planet. The impacts of climate change ar