Author: Jan PfloogPublisher: Western Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780307689054
Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
The Farm Book written and illustrated by Jan Pfloog.
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Author: United States. Farm Credit AdministrationTrees on the Farm
Author: Steven Charles FranzelPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851998848
Category : Agroforestry
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Most published books on agroforestry have focused on biophysical aspects. There has been a lack of scientifically rigorous information about the socioeconomic features of agroforestry, and the adoption of agroforestry practices by farmers.This book fills that gap by assessing the adoption of selected agroforestry practices developed with African farmers, describing methods, and drawing out the implications for research, development, and policy. The volume includes five case studies of research conducted in Kenya and Zambia to evaluate the adoption potential of agroforestry. The cases illustrate methods of farm and village technology design, testing, and analysis that are applicable to a wide range of natural resource management practices.Along with the case studies, the contents also include chapters on: methods for assessing agroforestry adoption potential, promoting new agroforestry technologies: policy lessons from on-farm research, and assessing adoption potential: lessons learned and future directions.
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Author: Benjamin Ralph Stauber
Author: United States. Farm Credit Administration
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on WheatBetting on the Farm
Author: Patricia L. MaclachlanPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501762133
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies. Using in-depth case studies and profiles of different types of farmers, Betting on the Farm also explores the evolution of the formal and informal institutional foundations of postwar agriculture; the electoral sources of JA's influence; the interactive effects of economic liberalization and demographic pressures (an aging farm population and acute shortage of farm successors) on the propensity for change within the farm sector; and the diversification of Japan's traditional farm households and the implications for farmer ties with JA.
