This paper’s contribution is two-fold: grants are an effective channel to actively promote rural development through small-scale farming, and they improve food security by non-market mechanisms.doi:10.2139/SSRN.2879784von Fintel, Dieter...
摘要: type of production rather than invest in new technologies such as in industrialised farming activities. a study by van de Walle and Cratty (2003) showed that small-scale farmers' ability to were largelyenjoyed by all sectors of the population, especially the small farm households....
The European Parliamentary Research Service (2014) estimated that enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 tripled the number of small-scale and semi-subsistence farms in the EU, substantially increasing the impetus to address small-scale farming specifically in European policy. Despite this ...
Small farms are also much more vulnerable to climate change and weather shocks compared to large-scale farming (also known as commercial or industrial farms).2 Their vulnerability, i.e., the susceptibility to the impacts of droughts [9], stems from two primary factors: their predominant ...
latest group amongst some 160 people Mafu has trained in just the past year, running them through the basics of running any business, admin, marketing, and bookkeeping. Depending on their key interests, she then shares knowledge on either small-scale crop farming or small-s...
on its own, but imagine the impact of 1 hundred, 1 thousand, or 1 million people engaging in small scale collective farming and rewilding native habitats. Doug Tallamy is mapping the latter through Homegrown National Park. It’s beyond time we had something like that for urban farming. ...
Trees and farming in the dry zone of southern Honduras I: campesino tree husbandry practices. Forest cover in the dry zone of southern Honduras has suffered drastic reduction, largely as a result of the marginalisation of small farmers onto formerly... AJ Barrance,L Flores,E Padilla,... -...
The Smallholder Agriculture Cluster Project (SACP) will increase productivity and household incomes by sustainably transforming the small-scale farming sector and increasing farmers’ participation in market-oriented and climate-smart value chains. It will provide technical assistanc...
In sub-Saharan small-scale farming it has long been noted that changes in the gendering of tasks occur when men exploit new opportunities outside agriculture and women expand their working repertoire in food production—however, men take up women’s tasks (only) when they become profitable (...
“People come to see the landscape but who will manage the land?” says Klemen Langus, who runs a wildflower festival in Bohinj and has seen a drop in farming in the past 10 years. He believes that agritourism should be part of Slovenia’s agricultural strategy, but only in dialogue wit...