Getting It Right in Rural Development Initiatives: The Importance of Livelihood Assets in Commercializing Family Farm Production in Brazil

Human Ecology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Frederik da Silva Cavalcante ◽  
Gabriel da Silva Medina ◽  
José Elenilson Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Livelihood Assets ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Development Initiatives

Ezra Taft Benson and the Family Farm

2019 ◽  
pp. 23-52
Keyword(s):  
Rural Development ◽  
Eisenhower Administration ◽  
Educational Opportunities ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Family Farming ◽  
Farm Work ◽  
Development Policies ◽  
The Family

Many small farmers charged that Ezra Taft Benson’s farm policies were driving them out of business. The fact that the countryside was hemorrhaging population during the 1950s seemed to support their contention. Indeed, the largest wave of farm abandonment and out-migration in the nation’s history occurred in those years. This chapter explores Benson’s agrarian polices while he was the secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration. In specific, this chapter explores the following questions: What did he say over the course of his career about the moral and spiritual values and the economic costs of family farming? How did he respond to criticism of his policies by small farmers? How did he justify his policies and what advice did he offer? Did he regard the exodus of Americans from small farms as lamentable but inevitable? To what degree did he recommend educational opportunities or rural development policies to ease the transition from farm employment to non-farm work and urban lifestyles?

scholarly journals Knowledge maps in agriculture and rural development

2008 ◽  
Vol 54 (No. 11) ◽  
pp. 546-552
Author(s):  
H. Brožová ◽  
T. Šubrt ◽  
J. Bartoška
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Model ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
General Structure ◽  
Knowledge Map ◽  
Knowledge Maps ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
The Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
The Mathematical Model

The possibility of knowledge maps use in the decision-making process in agriculture and rural development is discussed in this paper. Each knowledge map presents a visualization of knowledge using different tools, where a mathematical model can be applied as one of them. The hierarchical structure of a knowledge map conforms to the general structure of a mathematical model. The mathematical model, when successfully solved and correctly read, is a knowledge map in itself. The parallels exist also between the creation process of a mathematical model and of a knowledge map. In general, every phase of a system approach can lead to a special knowledge map. The following paper explains this process and demonstrates it on the farm production structure optimisation problem solved by using a linear programming model.

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