A5034794367- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Banana Cultivation and Research
- Innovation and Socioeconomic Development
- Plant and soil sciences
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agricultural and Food Production Studies
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect Utilization and Effects
- Insect behavior and control techniques
- Latin American rural development
- ICT in Developing Communities
- Plant and animal studies
- Organic Food and Agriculture
- Ethnobotanical and Medicinal Plants Studies
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
- Diverse Educational Innovations Studies
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Agricultural Economics and Policy
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Agriculture
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Global trade, sustainability, and social impact
Fundación PROINPA
2025
Southern Research Station
2024
US Forest Service
2024
Bolivia Adventist University
2001-2019
Cornell University
2019
Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School
1988-2014
CAB International
2009-2012
Universidad Latinoamericana
2003-2009
University of Arizona
1987-2003
Washington State University
2003
Land fragmentation, also known as pulverization (Clout 1972: 106), morcellement (De Vries 1974: 11-12), parcellization (Roche 1956), and scattering (Farmer 1960), is the type of land ownership pattern where a single farm consists numerous discrete parcels, often scattered over wide area (Binns 1950: 5). Another phenomenon, fragmenta tion, division into small farms 1972a: 41; Jacoby 1971: 265). In this paper I discwis former. Fragmentation described by agricultural policymakers blackest...
Vegetatively propagated crop (VPC) seed tends to remain true varietal type but is bulky, often carries disease, and slow produce. So VPC needs be handled differently than that of other crops, e.g., it sourced locally, must fresh, less sold on the market. Hence, a framework was adapted describe support interventions in such systems. The used with 13 case studies understand systems for roots, tubers, bananas, including differing roles sometimes conflicting goals stakeholders, identify...
Abstract Nearly 2.5 billion smallholders cultivate the world’s arable land, strategically positioned to tackle multiple Anthropocene challenges. When consciously adopting ecologically-based pest management practices, they can improve resource use efficiency, slow biodiversity loss, curtail environmental pollution and safeguard human health. Yet, effective implementation of knowledge-intensive practices requires underlying ecological concepts be well-understood. Here, drawing upon published...
Of 1,211 farmers and their representatives registered on www.accessagriculture.org, 142 participated in an on-line survey November 2017, designed to learn farmer's opinions of Access Agriculture, NGO which hosts a digital platform where anyone can watch or download videos other information for free. These farmer learning all convey practical sustainable agricultural innovations, encourage experiments. Previous experience showed that smallholders liked having own copy (e.g. DVD), but this...
In Benin, vegetable production contributes significantly to food security and poverty reduction. However, farming is confronted with declining soil fertility, poor pest disease management, climate change. Agroecological offers a new paradigm of sustainable agri-food systems that counters these challenges. From August December 2015, farmer training videos (FTVs) were sold enable farmers learn about agroecological techniques. October 2022, we interviewed sample 180 in four municipalities where...
The modern poultry industry has a remarkable record in reducing mortality, applying combination of effective disease control, adequate nutrition, good husbandry and genetic selection. Primary breeders, specialized the adaptation layers, broilers turkeys to changing demands global food market, have made three major contributions past: (1) eradication vertically transmitted agents such as lymphoid leucosis viruses, mycoplasmas salmonellae; (2) selection between within lines for general...
Open‐Economy Politics: The Political Economy of the World Coffee Trade. Robert H. Bates. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.221 pp.
This debate between an anthropologist and entomologist is a frank, detailed account of integrated pest management (IPM) research extension project for subsistence maize bean farmers in Honduras. Dialectic tension runs through questions the style technology generation on-farm research, value farmer experimentation indigenous technical knowledge, participation contributing to greater pesticide use, worth media extension. The authors argue some ethical, pragmatic scientific issues human...
Contemporary agricultural extension uses intensive face-to-face communication, especially for teaching farmers about pest and disease management. Development scholars are increasingly concerned the cost of these programmes, some trying to reach more through mass media. Small media is another recent option. We have developed a novel method extension, which we call Going Public. It makes use places where meet spontaneously, such as markets, bus terminals other public places, create two-way...
Purpose: To describe the results of showing farmer learning videos through different types volunteers.Design/Methodology/Approach: Semi-structured interviews with volunteers from occupational groups in Bangladesh, and a phone survey 227 respondents.Findings: Each group acted differently. Shop keepers, tillage service providers, agricultural input machine dealers reached fairly small audiences. Tea stall owners had large, male Non-governmental organisations community-based organisations, more...
Vegetable production plays an important role in nutrition, food security and poverty reduction Benin. However, vegetable is hampered by pests farmers rely on pesticides to control them. Improving farmers' knowledge for the use of sustainable, intensive agricultural practices. This paper assesses learning video changing behaviour towards sustainable agriculture. Drawing mainly mass distribution videos, DVDs entitled 'Improving production' were sold through non-conventional dissemination...