Should smallholder farmers in Vietnam specialize or diversify?
In the case of Vietnam, is crop diversification or specialization better for small farms, in terms of efficiency and productivity?
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Vietnam
Training Manual on Climate Smart Agriculture Practices for Belize: Animal Management
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The Training Manual on Climate Smart Agriculture Practices for Belize is intended to be used by technicians and teams working within the Extension Office of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, the Environment, Sustainable Development and Immigration (MAFFESDI) of Belize, as well as personnel from both Agriculture and Cooperative Departments. Additionally, the manual can be used by technicians linked to producer organizations or agriculture research and development centers.
Comparing farmers’ willingness to pay with costs of clean sweet potato seed multiplication in Kenya
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The production of sweet potato has the potential to address food insecurity and malnutrition in the context of climate change. However, sustainable production of sweet potato is hampered by poor access to quality seed. We assess the level and determinants of farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for clean seed among smallholder sweet potato farmers and compare the estimated WTP with the cost of seed multiplication. Data for the paper were collected from 383 sweet potato farmers and 30 sweet potato seed multipliers in Kenya.
“Building long-term relationships with policymakers is the biggest challenge”
Twenty researchers from the Global South who obtained their doctor’s degree five years ago or less are participating in the EfD’s Early Career Fellowship program. The purpose of the program is to…
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Agriculture, Air Quality, Biodiversity, Carbon Pricing, Climate Change, Conservation, Covid-19, Energy, Experiments, Fisheries, Forestry, Gender, Health, Land, Policy Design, Urban, Waste, Water |
Chile, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam
New project seeks solutions to mitigate climate change related conflicts through insurance.
The Environment and Climate Research Center, ECRC, has garnered collaborative research funding for a project titled “From Climate change to Conflict: Mitigation through insurance”. The study will…
Drivers of organic farming: Lab-in-the-field evidence of the role of social comparison and information nudge in networks in Vietnam
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This study examines factors determining farmers’ investment in organic farming using a contextualized lab-in-the-field experiment with 220 small household farmers in Northern Vietnam. We focus on the role of network structure, information nudge, and social comparison between farmers using three types of networks: circle, star and complete. Our results suggest that, on average, around 64% of the land is invested in organic farming in the complete network in which each farmer is connected to all of the others, while only about 57% of the land is invested in the circle and star network.
Stemming rural-urban migration through agricultural development: Can Nigeria apply the lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic?
Nigeria has one of the highest population growth rates in the world resulting to rapid urbanization and an enormous increase in the population leaving rural areas and now living in urban centres. In spite of the increased emphasis on rural development, rural-urban migration has persisted mainly due to the farmerherder conflict situation, poverty, lack of job opportunities, insecurity and gross inadequacy of social infrastructures in the rural areas. This mass migration and other factors have put Nigeria in an emergency food and nutrition insecure situation.
Ethiopia held a national consultative workshop prior to Stockholm +50 conference
Ethiopia held a national consultative workshop on April 11-12, 2022 to prepare for the upcoming United Nations Stockholm+50 conference. The workshop aimed to showcase Ethiopia’s stride, in the past 50…