Similar Search Results

Group Leasing Approach to Sustain Farming and Rural Livelihoods : The Journey of Women Farmers in Kudumbashree Kerala

World Bank - 2021

Kudumbashree is a society designed and established in 1997 by the State Poverty Eradication Mission (SPEM) of the government of Kerala (GoK) with a broad objective to eradicate poverty and empower women through community-based organizations that operate under the umbrella authority of local...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013545618

Agricultural Insurance in Bangladesh : Promoting Access to Small and Marginal Farmers

World Bank - 2013

small and marginal farmers and to present the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) with a set of options for the future … crop-index products that are suitable to Bangladeshi farmers. This report present a series of practical guidelines and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557914

How will climate change shift agro-ecological zones and impact African agriculture ?

Kurukulasuriya, Pradeep - 2008

"The study develops a new method to measure the impacts of climate change on agriculture called the Agro-Ecological Zone (AEZ) Model. A multinomial logit is estimated to predict the probability of each AEZ in each district. The average percentage of cropland and average crop net revenue are...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521042

Sustainable land management sourcebook

2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521365

Is environmentally-friendly agriculture less profitable for farmers? evidence on integrated pest management in bangladesh

Dasgupta, Susmita - 2004

chemical pesticides are expensive for poor farmers, IPM offers the prospect of lower production costs and higher profitability … local ecosystems. Using new survey data, Dasgupta, Meisner and Wheeler attempt such an accounting for rice farmers in … suggest substantial health and ecological benefits. However, externality problems make it difficult for farmers to adopt IPM …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522917

Sustainable Land Management Sourcebook

World Bank - 2012

This sourcebook is intended to be a ready reference for practitioners (including World Bank stakeholders, clients in borrowing countries, and World Bank project leaders) seeking state-of-the-art information about good land management approaches, innovations for investments, and close monitoring...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012561396

Developing the Organic Agriculture Sub-Sector in Samoa

World Bank - 2013

The World Bank has provided technical assistance (TA) support to the Government of Samoa to help identify measures to strengthen agriculture sector institutions, to improve the performance of selected commodities - including livestock, fruits and vegetables and organic products - and to identify...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557701

Uruguay : Family Agriculture Development

World Bank - 2013

The bank has a long relationship with Uruguay's agricultural sector, expanding over a period of more than 60 years in which several projects and various analytical and advisory assistance initiatives have been implemented. The main purposes of the present report are: a) to analyze the main...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557325

Sending farmers back to school : the impact of farmer field schools in Indonesia

Feder, Gershon - 2003

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523413

Building Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to Promote Farmer Experimentation and Innovation in Ghana

World Bank - 2012

promote joint research, extension, advocacy and learning with farmers as equal partners. They were disillusioned with the … little success. They had recognized the need to build on the indigenous knowledge (IK) and initiatives of smallholder farmers … in order to develop LEISA (Low-External-Input and Sustainable Agriculture) technologies and to strengthen farmers …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012555859