scholarly journals Contribution of agroforestry on farmers’ income in Mapilli Polewali Subdistrict, West Sulawesi Province

2021 ◽  
Vol 886 (1) ◽  
pp. 012027
Author(s):  
Hardiyanti ◽  
Anwar Umar ◽  
Makkarennu ◽  
Syamsuddin Millang ◽  
Beta Putranto
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Vertical Structure ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agroforestry System ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Purposive Sampling

Abstract Changes in land use from forests into agricultural land raises many problems such as land to be limited so that people use agroforestry patterns as sources of income. This study aims to determine the pattern of agroforestry management and calculate the contribution of agroforestry to the total income of farmers. This research is located in Landi Kanusuang Village, Mapilli Polewali District, West Sulawesi. The method of data was done thought using purposive sampling on 30 respondents and making a plot sample size of 20mx50m as much as 10 plots. Data is processed and analyzed with descriptive and quantitative methods. The results showed that the composition of the type of agroforestry system consists of 8 types of plants with agroforestry system where the vertical structure of the agroforestry garden stands 3 strata. Strata A with a height of > 15 m, Strata B with a height of 5-15 m and strata C with a height of 1-5 m. In addition, the average income was Rp. 18,831,743.743/year with agroforestry contribution to the total income of farmers of 76.14%.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the efficiency of using agricultural land in agricultural production

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-139
Author(s):  
L. V. Kireicheva ◽  
V. A. Shevchenko ◽  
I. F. Yurchenko
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Land Reclamation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Integral Assessment

Relevance. The effective use of agricultural land is a fundamental prerequisite for the successful implementation in the agro-industrial complex of the task of providing the population with food, and production with raw materials. At the same time, the issues of methodological support of the procedures for determining the integral indicator for assessing the use of agricultural land, established on the basis of a theoretically grounded unified approach based on quantitative methods, have been developed with insufficient completeness. Actualization of the issues of improving the theory and practice of assessing the effectiveness of the use of agricultural land in agricultural production is becoming one of the priority tasks of land reclamation science. The purpose of this work is to create a methodological basis for the process of assessing the use of agricultural land, which guarantees the comparability of the considered options for agroproduction in different natural and economic conditions.Methods. The research is based on the method of point assessments for indicators of agricultural land exploitation and the formation on their basis an integral criterion of land use efficiency. The proposed procedure includes: analysis of statistical data characterizing the dynamics of the values of indicators of used land resources, calculation of local assessments of the feasibility of their exploitation and assessment of the efficiency of land use according to a generalizing criterion represented by the sum of these local assessments.Results. A methodology has been developed and a method has been created for determining the efficiency of the use of agricultural land, based on a generalized integral assessment of the operation of agricultural land, which allows to identify bottlenecks in agricultural production and outline rational directions for the development of land use. The testing of the algorithm of the methodology and capabilities of the scale for the integral assessment of the efficiency of the use of land resources was carried out on the example of the Non-Black Earth Zone of the Russian Federation. Shown is an unsatisfactory (below the national average) contribution of agricultural production to the gross regional product. On the whole, positive dynamics of agricultural production in the Non-Black Earth Zone was established, which is achieved due to the development of animal husbandry, which is an effective factor in the formation of modern efficient agriculture of the territory, with the orientation of the crop production system on the raw material basis of feed production or the sector of the economy of the agro-industrial complex of the territory.

scholarly journals Perspectives on Agricultural Land Use Conversion and Food Security in Rural Ghana

Sci ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Divine Odame Appiah ◽  
Felix Asante ◽  
Bernice Nketiah
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Agricultural Land Use ◽  
Land Uses ◽  
Agricultural Lands ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Planning Department ◽  
Increasing Demand

Rapid peri-urbanization has resulted in increasing demand for and pressure on peri-urban lands at the expense of agricultural lands. Households’ decision to convert from agricultural land uses to residential and commercial land uses is driven by a myriad of factors, ranging from social to economic, in the Asante-Akim South district of the Asante region, Ghana. The paper examined the effects of agricultural land use trade-off on food production in the district. Using a triangulation of qualitative and quantitative methods, 115 household respondents were proportionately sampled from three selected communities in the district, for the collection of data through the administration of questionnaires. The data were subjected to the Pearson’s chi-square, embedded in the SPSS V.16, to test for association among the variables. We report that the increasing rate of agricultural land uses conversions was as a result of increasing demand for residential and commercial land usage at the expense of agricultural land uses. Converting prime agricultural lands into other land uses was seen as profitable to agricultural expansion. A re-examination of the district land use plans by the Ghanaian Physical (Town and Country) Planning Department in tandem with the Lands Commission is therefore recommended.

Sustainable land use in the northern region: problems and instruments

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
I.S. Maltseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Komi Republic ◽  
Northern Region ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Land Policy ◽  
Agricultural Land Use

The study of sustainable land use in agriculture is a growing direction of research worldwide. The relevance of this topic is related to the large-scale degradation and increasing multifun-ctionality of agricultural land. According to scientists, unsustainable land use is largely due to the shortcomings in land management. In the Russian Federation, this scientific direction is less developed, especially in terms of policy instruments at the regional level. The aim of the work is to pro-pose instruments for sustainable land use in the northern region based on the study of the works of foreign and Russian scientists and the assessment of the effectiveness of agricultural land management mechanisms in the Komi Republic. The object of the study is the agricultural land use of the Komi Republic. The methodological basis of the research is as follows: monographic method, analysis and synthesis, systematization and generalization, quantitative methods of statistical information processing. The paper examines the current agrarian land policy in Russia and its mechanisms, and reveals its weak focus on achieving sustainable land use. The classification of the instruments of the policy of sustainable land use is clarified and supplemented with the following elements of social sustainability: protection of cultural and social values of society, preservation of traditional land use and ancient settlements, use of local knowledge about land use activities, and environmental justice. Based on the analysis of the agricultural land use of the Komi Republic and its regulatory instruments, the use of elements of sustainable land use aimed at supporting soil fertility through agroforestry, agroforestry reclamation, and the development of agrobiology is proposed. The introduction of ʺgreen public procurementʺ, the expansion of measures to inform and train best practices of land use are recommended.

Climate Change and Land Use Change of Rural Households in The Red River Delta, Vietnam

2013 ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Ngoc Luu Bich
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Red River ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
Sea Levels ◽  
Main Production ◽  
Farming Households

Climate change (CC) and its impacts on the socio-economy and the development of communities has become an issue causing very special concern. The rise in global temperatures, in sea levels, extreme weather phenomena, and salinization have occurred more and more and have directly influenced the livelihoods of rural households in the Red River Delta – one of the two regions projected to suffer strongly from climate change in Vietnam. For farming households in this region, the major and traditional livelihoods are based on main production materials as agricultural land, or aquacultural water surface Changes in the land use of rural households in the Red River Delta during recent times was influenced strongly by the Renovation policy in agriculture as well as the process of industrialization and modernization in the country. Climate change over the past 5 years (2005-2011) has started influencing household land use with the concrete manifestations being the reduction of the area cultivated and the changing of the purpose of land use.

Perceived effectiveness of in-service training in improving Teacher's Performance: Evidence from Private Schools in Karachi-Pakistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Chandani ◽  
Dr. afaq kazi ahmed
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation Modeling ◽  
Sample Size ◽  
Private Schools ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
School Management ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Effectiveness ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Service Training

<p><b>Research Paradigm:</b> The approach for this study is based on positivism theory with an intention to obtain evidence through focused observations and identify its likeliness with the actual data collected so that it can be generalized with the findings of other scholars who have worked on the topic (Remenyi et al., 1998). As elaborated by (Gill & Johnson, 2002), the crux of positivism philosophy revolves around the relationship of cause and its effect generated by different constructs, and the best possible exploration of these variables.</p><p><b>Research Design:</b> Primary data would be collected through a structured close-ended questionnaire which use to gather the responses from the stakeholders including teachers, coordinators, and school management and human resource personnel in the private schools. Therefore, the research questionnaire adapted from Dogan (2009) and Asiyai (2016) as a research instrument.</p> <p><b>Sample Size and Sampling technique:</b> The target population for this research study consists of different stakeholders for instance: teachers, coordinators, and school management and HR personnel working in private schools of Karachi -Pakistan. Non-probability purposive sampling is being used for this study. The sample size of 400 different stakeholders from private schools would be adequate to figure out the results (Loehlin, 2004). Since the actual size of the population is not exactly known and neither accessible to conduct random sampling, therefore non probability purposive sampling is chosen. Since the sample consists of different stakeholders for instance: teachers, coordinators, and school management and HR personnel working in private schools of Karachi -Pakistan. Therefore, it is a purposive sampling.</p><p><b>Data Collection Tool:</b> In this study we used the quantitative research to measure the perceived effectiveness of in-service training in improving teacher’s performance with one independent variables: in-service training (Training need assessment and training methodology), one dependent variables teachers performance (Task performance and contextual performance), 03 mediators (professional skills, knowledge enhancement and work engagement) and one moderator (reward). Questionnaire has distributed in the several schools by hand or through email.</p><p><b>Statistical Technique:</b> Since the model consists of multiple variables with mediation and moderation model, therefore the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is used. The interface terms integrated with the model is measured for statistical significance via bootstrapping method. The structural equation modeling has executed by the partial least square approach.</p><p></p>

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