Farming System Characterization of Arsizone: Case of Small-Scale Farming

AbstractA comparison of data collected in western Nigeria (the Yoruba area) in 1968-69 and 1988 suggests that small-scale male farmers' patterns of work remained quite similar in the total amount of work they did and in the amount by task. This finding seemed surprising, since the study area lies in the food supply hinterland of the rapidly growing cities of Ibadan, Lagos and Abeokuta. The farming system has changed in several ways in response to increased urban demand and improved transport, including an increase in farm size on the part of male farmers. Changed cropping patterns, the increased use of hired labour and somewhat increased returns to labour seem only partly to account for the persistence. Analysis of the work data in terms of its timing, rather than in terms of time, suggests that farmers are tending to work at the same task in longer stretches ofconsecutive days, and this, in turn, is related to the marked rescheduling of traditional ceremonial life and the intensified politico-associational life moved to the weekend.

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MECHANIZATION OF POTATO GRADING ON SMALL-SCALE FARMS: A CASE STUDY FROM PERU

Experimental Agriculture ◽

10.1017/s0014479704002340 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 41 (1) ◽

pp. 81-92 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

G. P. BUTLER ◽

T. BERNET ◽

K. MANRIQUE

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Market Integration ◽

Low Cost ◽

Farming System ◽

Agricultural Products ◽

Small Scale ◽

Critical Aspect ◽

Small Scale Farmers ◽

Important Cash Crop

Potatoes are an important cash crop for small-scale producers worldwide. The move away from subsistence to commercialized farming, combined with the rapid growth in demand for processed agricultural products in developing countries, implies that small-scale farmers and researchers alike must begin to respond to these market changes and consider post-harvest treatment as a critical aspect of the potato farming system. This paper presents and assesses a low cost potato-grading machine that was designed explicitly to enable small-scale potato growers to sort tubers by size for supply to commercial processors. The results of ten experiments reveal that the machine achieves an accuracy of sort similar to commercially available graders. The machine, which uses parallel conical rollers, has the capacity to grade different tuber shapes and to adjust sorting classes, making it suitable for locations with high potato diversity. Its relatively low cost suggests that an improved and adapted version of this machine might enhance market integration of small-scale potato producers not only in Peru, but in other developing countries as well.

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Het Hoge Kempen ruraal-industrieel transitielandschap

Tijdschrift voor Historische Geografie ◽

10.5117/thg2019.3.006.gele ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 4 (3) ◽

pp. 194-207

Author(s):

PIET GELEYNS

Keyword(s):

Large Scale ◽

Western Europe ◽

Farming System ◽

Small Scale ◽

Coal Miners ◽

Garden Cities ◽

World Heritage List ◽

The World ◽

Outstanding Universal Value ◽

Extensive Farming

The Hoge Kempen rural industrial transition landscape: a layered landscape of Outstanding Universal Value? Up until the beginning of the 20th century, the eastern part of the Belgian province of Limburg was a sparsely populated and not very productive part of the country. The dominating heathland was maintained with sheep, which were an essential part of a small-scale extensive farming system. This all changed when coal was discovered in 1901. Seven large coalmines were established in a few decades, each one employing thousands of coal-miners. This also meant that entire new garden cities were built, to house the coal-miners and their families. The confrontation between the small-scale traditional land-use and the new large-scale industrial developments defines the landscape up to today. The scale and the force of the turnover are considered unprecedented for Western Europe, which is why it is being presented by Belgium for inclusion in the World Heritage List.

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Characterization of small-scale fisheries in the Camamu-Almada basin, southeast state of Bahia, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Biology ◽

10.1590/s1519-69842008000400005 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 68 (4) ◽

pp. 711-719 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

TCM. Souza ◽

M. Petrere-Jr

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Small Scale ◽

Income Generation ◽

Target Species ◽

Market Prices ◽

Marine Fishery ◽

Small Scale Fisheries ◽

Main Factor ◽

Stock Abundance

In the Camamu-Almada basin, marine fishery is exclusively small-scale, with several structural deficiencies such as boats with low or absent navigational technology, lack of credit and low income. Local fishers complain that shrimp and lobster trawling fishing is the main factor responsible for low stock abundance, but they still persist in these activities as these two species command the highest market prices. So they feel that the target species are already over-fished. We suggest that proper management action, alternative ways of income generation and the payment of job insurance would help to mitigate the problem.

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Molecular characterization of Listeria monocytogenes isolates from a small-scale meat processor in Montenegro, 2011–2014

Food Microbiology ◽

10.1016/j.fm.2018.12.005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 79 ◽

pp. 116-122 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Ivana Zuber ◽

Brankica Lakicevic ◽

Ariane Pietzka ◽

Dubravka Milanov ◽

Vesna Djordjevic ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Listeria Monocytogenes ◽

Molecular Characterization ◽

Small Scale

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Experimental Parameters Used to Study Pesticide Degradation in Soil

Weed Technology ◽

10.1017/s0890037x00045899 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 169-173 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Michael R. Blumhorst

Keyword(s):

Small Scale ◽

Test Substance ◽

Pesticide Degradation ◽

Soil System ◽

Experimental Parameters ◽

Effective Cost ◽

Cost Efficient ◽

Efficient Mechanisms ◽

Degradation In Soil

Characterization of pesticide degradation in soil is an important component in determining the environmental impact of agriculturally-applied pesticides. Several techniques currently are being used to generate these data, but small-scale laboratory studies remain one of the most effective, cost-efficient mechanisms of evaluating pesticide behavior in soil. With small-scale studies, many different environmental factors can be incorporated into the experimental design, and with the use of14C-labeled material, these studies (often referred to as soil degradation or soil metabolism studies) provide information on test substance persistence, degradation, volatilization, and mineralization. Care must be exercised, however, in selecting the experimental parameters to be used because of the potential adverse or artificial effects on the soil system.

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