scholarly journals Are Small Farms Sustainable by Nature?—Review of an Ongoing Misunderstanding in Agroecology

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland Ebel
Keyword(s):  
Small Farms

REGULATION OF DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL FARMS IN AIC

2016 ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
A.V. Tolmachev ◽  
I.A. Papahchyan ◽  
E.V. Grishin
Keyword(s):  
Small Farms

Impact of Optimal Cropping Patterns on Incomes in a Punjab District

1976 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-221
Author(s):  
M. Arshad Chaudhry
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Linear Programming ◽  
Short Note ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
Cropping Patterns ◽  
Punjab Province ◽  
Optimal Cropping

To improve farm incomes in developing countries, the foremost question that the farmer must address himself to is: what cropping pattern best uses the fixed resources in order to get the highest returns? During the last decade, the agricultural economists have shown great interest in applying the tools of linear programming to individual farms. Most of the studies conducted elsewhere have shown that, under existing cropping pattern, farm resources were not being utilized optimally on the small farms.[l, 4]. We conducted a survey in the canal-irrigated areas of the Punjab province of Pakistan1 to investigate into the same problem. This short note aims at identifying the opti¬mal cropping pattern and to estimate the increase in farm incomes as a result of a switch towards it on the sampled farms.

scholarly journals Human Capital and Eco-Contractual Governance in Small Farms in Poland: Simultaneous Confirmatory Factor Analysis with Ordinal Variables

Agriculture ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 46
Author(s):  
Bazyli Czyżewski ◽  
Agnieszka Sapa ◽  
Piotr Kułyk
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analysis ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Equation Model ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
Ordinal Variables ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Contractual Governance

Human capital (HC) plays an important role in modern agriculture. The difference in efficiency of assets explains only about a half of the economic performance of agricultural farms, while the other half relies on HC. Although education and training are the main components of HC, it may also be viewed from the perspective of behavioral theories that were taken under consideration in this study. The role of HC in sustainable farming has not been sufficiently explained when it comes to contractual governance (CG). In this study, the meaning of contractual governance was extended and the eco-contractual governance (ECG) concept was proposed, which stands for CG induced by agri-environmental contracts. The main objective of the article is to confirm the latent concepts of HC and ECG and to verify their correlation in view of the standards imposed by the agricultural policy. To achieve this goal, a structural equation model was developed and simultaneous confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal variables was carried out based on the sample of 674 small farms in Poland. The analysis has confirmed a relatively strong correlation between HC and ECG. It was revealed that training plays a crucial role in this relationship, while economic dependence on agricultural policy weakens the effectiveness of both HC and ECG.

Microbial Source Tracking in Small Farms: Use of Different Methods for Adenovirus Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 232 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Meriane Demoliner ◽  
Juliana Schons Gularte ◽  
Viviane Girardi ◽  
Ana Karolina Antunes Eisen ◽  
Fernanda Gil de Souza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Source Tracking ◽  
Source Tracking ◽  
Small Farms

Small farms and sustainable rural development for food security: The Brazilian experience

2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-529 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Rocha ◽  
Luciene Burlandy ◽  
Renato Maluf
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Small Farms ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development
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