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Author : John H. Cleave
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (969 download)
Download or read book Decisionmaking on the African Farm written by John H. Cleave and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kalonji Ntalaja
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Decision Making Process of African Farmers written by Kalonji Ntalaja and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Hogarth Cleave
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Decisionmaking on the African Farm written by John Hogarth Cleave and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia M. Kristjanson
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Role of Information and Flexibility in Small-farm Decision Making and Risk Management written by Patricia M. Kristjanson and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International. This book was released on 1987 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Willis Bill Obura
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Role of the Farm Family in Integrated Rural Development written by Willis Bill Obura and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diao, Xinshen, ed.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896293807
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book An evolving paradigm of agricultural mechanization development: How much can Africa learn from Asia? written by Diao, Xinshen, ed. and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural mechanization in Africa south of the Sahara — especially for small farms and businesses — requires a new paradigm to meet the needs of the continent’s evolving farming systems. Can Asia, with its recent success in adopting mechanization, offer a model for Africa? An Evolving Paradigm of Agricultural Mechanization Development analyzes the experiences of eight Asian and five African countries. The authors explore crucial government roles in boosting and supporting mechanization, from import policies to promotion policies to public good policies. Potential approaches presented to facilitating mechanization in Africa include prioritizing market-led hiring services, eliminating distortions, and developing appropriate technologies for the African context. The role of agricultural mechanization within overall agricultural and rural transformation strategies in Africa is also discussed. The book’s recommendations and insights should be useful to national policymakers and the development community, who can adapt this knowledge to local contexts and use it as a foundation for further research.
Author : Patricia Marie Kristjanson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Role of Information and Flexibility in Small-farm Decision Making and Risk Management written by Patricia Marie Kristjanson and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Upton
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521338059
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (38 download)
Download or read book African Farm Management written by Martin Upton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987-10-08 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : M. Blowfield
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Allocation of Labour to Perennial Crops written by M. Blowfield and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work highlights the factors, particularly nonfinancial, affecting the choice and use of labour during the production of perennial crops. It includes the effects of kinship, gender, AIDS and natural disasters and emphasizes the importance of the decision-making process during policy planning.
Author : Petrus Gerhardus Strauss
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Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (956 download)
Download or read book Decision-making in Agriculture written by Petrus Gerhardus Strauss and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past decade South Africa experienced major political and economic changes. In addition to these major changes, South Africa is a highly diverse country and a country of extremes in many respects. Within this dynamic and diverse environment the agricultural sector has to survive and grow financially. In order to survive and grow, good decision-making within the agricultural sector in terms of policies and business strategies is extremely important and necessary. However, within the dynamic and extreme environment it is very difficult for decision-makers to make correct decisions since the likely impact of changes in markets and policies is difficult to quantify. The general objective of this dissertation is to identify and construct a type of farm-level model that will have the ability to quantify the likely impact of change in markets and policies on the financial viability of a representative farm. The specific objective is to construct a model of a representative grain and livestock farm in the Reitz district, Free State province, South Africa. The approach to farm-level modelling that is followed is a positivistic approach since questions of 'what is the likely impact' is asked, and not 'what ought to be' questions. Apart from behavioural equations, this farm-level simulation model also consists of accounting identities. The model is of a deterministic type since explanatory and descriptive types of questions need to be answered. The development of this farm-level model contributes to research in the field of farm-level modelling in South Africa due to the fact that it has the ability to simulate the impact of changes in markets and policies on a representative farm's financial position. This is done by linking the farm-level model to a sector-level model developed by Meyer (2002) as well as outputs from several other institutions in terms of macro-economic variables and social variables. There are, however, several issues that became clear in this study. Firstly, positivistic simulation models have the disadvantage that validation and verification are difficult and time consuming due to lack of accurate and detailed data. Secondly, due to the positivistic nature of the model, the assumption is made that very little adjustment in terms of the farm structure takes place during the simulation process. One possible solution to this problem of not being able to simulate adaptation to changing conditions is to develop a model following a normative approach. The third problem with specifically the deterministic type of model is the fact that the model and simulation process assumes no risk. Lastly, in following the positivistic approach, the modeller needs theoretical as well as practical knowledge and understanding of the system modelled and simulated, in order to simulate reality as closely as possible.
Author : Joyce Lewinger Moock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000001954
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Understanding Africa's Rural Households And Farming Systems written by Joyce Lewinger Moock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food production under adverse conditions through agronomic and social science research conducted on the farm. Particular attention is paid to household decision-making processes that affect the way households
Author : Leah Penniman
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603587616
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Farming While Black written by Leah Penniman and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming While Black is the first comprehensive "how to" guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latino Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described--from whole farm planning, soil fertility, seed selection, and agroecology, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes, sharing stories of ancestors, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm, a national leader in the food justice movement.--AMAZON.
Author : Annamaria Castrignano
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0128183748
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (281 download)
Download or read book Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Precision Smart Farming written by Annamaria Castrignano and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural Internet of Things and Decision Support for Smart Farming reveals how a set of key enabling technologies (KET) related to agronomic management, remote and proximal sensing, data mining, decision-making and automation can be efficiently integrated in one system. Chapters cover how KETs enable real-time monitoring of soil conditions, determine real-time, site-specific requirements of crop systems, help develop a decision support system (DSS) aimed at maximizing the efficient use of resources, and provide planning for agronomic inputs differentiated in time and space. This book is ideal for researchers, academics, post-graduate students and practitioners who want to embrace new agricultural technologies. - Presents the science behind smart technologies for agricultural management - Reveals the power of data science and how to extract meaningful insights from big data on what is most suitable based on individual time and space - Proves how advanced technologies used in agriculture practices can become site-specific, locally adaptive, operationally feasible and economically affordable
Author : Joseph William Lanning
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Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Calculated, Constrained, and Co-opted written by Joseph William Lanning and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last 70 years, Green Revolution technologies, such as inorganic fertilizer and improved seed, have been promoted globally as a means to achieve higher agricultural yields, and reduce poverty and food insecurity. Using long-term ethnography, qualitative and quantitative survey data, and experimental risk games, this dissertation research investigates agricultural decision-making among rural smallholder farmers in the Ntcheu District of central Malawi, a country in the vanguard of the new African Green Revolution. The vast majority of Malawian are rural smallholders who experience chronic and seasonal food insecurity, and their decisions about whether and how to intensely use agricultural technologies are therefore important to understand. This research draws upon 16 years of continued engagement and 15 months of fieldwork with rural Malawian communities exploring the issues smallholders face. First, it explores why rural farmers facing uncertain prices for agricultural inputs, constrained market opportunities, and limited arable land, choose either to use local seed and soil amendments, or to purchase improved seed varieties and expensive inorganic fertilizer. By examining indicators at community and household scales, it demonstrates that input choices are influenced by material wealth and that intensive input use, in communities with economic, political, and social inequality, may lead to greater disparity between rural households. Next, results of a real-rewards risk experiment reveal that when facing chronic and seasonal risk, farmers demonstrate a "safety first" decision-making model that reduces their downside risk, thus they select investment options with a higher probability of obtaining low or negative returns. It further focuses on the cognitive aspects of decision-making, showing that peoples' self-reported experiences of food insecurity are subject to response shifts that reflect changing perceptions of their own food insecurity relative to that of other members of their community across two seasons. By factoring in ecological, economic, and cognitive aspects of people's decision-making, this dissertation illuminates the heterogeneity of smallholders' material, social, and physical constraints, demonstrating that unequal access to the productive resources limits wide-scale or pro-poor growth through Green Revolution strategies.
Author : Warren J. Keegan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Mechanisation of African Farming in Wambu written by Warren J. Keegan and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joyce Lewinger Moock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000008797
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Understanding Africa's Rural Households And Farming Systems written by Joyce Lewinger Moock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the difficult problems of agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa are examined by the farming systems approach, which aims to improve food production under adverse conditions through agronomic and social science research conducted on the farm. Particular attention is paid to household decision-making processes that affect the way households
Author : Dunstan S. C. Spencer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Micro-level Farm Management and Production Economics Research Among Traditional African Farmers: Lessons from Sierra Leone written by Dunstan S. C. Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural economics paper on the data collecting methodology and research methodology used in conducting a 1970-1972 survey of agricultural management among traditional farmers in Sierra Leone - reviews some alternative methods of farm management and agricultural production economic research, and covers the general principles of field study work in africa, the 'cost route method' of data collecting, etc. Map and references.
