pandeya, shreesha gyawali, buddhi r. upadhaya, suraj
The increasing pressure on food security and environmental sustainability has emphasized the importance of effective farm resource usage. Precision agriculture technologies (PATs) have been considered as one of the solutions to these challenges. Multiple stakeholders and agencies working in the agriculture sector have implemented various initiative...
rabuh, ahmad abd teeuw, richard m. oakey, doyle ray argyriou, athanasios v. foxley-marrable, max wilkins, alan
This article presents a low-cost insurance system developed for smallholder farms in disaster-prone regions, primarily using free Earth observation (EO) data and free open source software’s (FOSS), collectively termed “sustainable geoinformatics.” The study examined 30 farms in Risaralda Department, Colombia. A digital elevation model (12.5 m pixel...
El Amami, Hacib Kompany, Jean Robert Muanda, Charles
Published in
Cahiers Agricultures
La surexploitation des nappes génère un coût économique et environnemental qui se traduit par la diminution de la disponibilité de l’eau et l’augmentation de son coût de pompage. Les études portant sur la distribution de ces coûts à travers les types d’exploitations et leur impact sur l’équité d’accès aux eaux souterraines demeurent limitées en Tun...
knezevic, irena blay-palmer, alison clause, courtney jane
In 2009, the ETC Group estimated that some 70% of the food that people globally consume originates in the ‘peasant food web’. This figure has been both embraced and critiqued, and more recent critiques have focussed on analysing farm productivity to offer some more precise estimates. Several analyses suggest that the proportion of small farms’ cont...
Dhungana, Purushottam Khanal, Aditya R.
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Frontiers in Environmental Economics
Introduction/Purpose Agritourism is gaining popularity throughout the United States and is an important part of rural and regional development. However, the economic contributions of agritourism, the interface of agriculture and tourism, has received limited attention in regional impact estimation studies. This study was purposed to estimates the r...
a. sayed, hassan a. ding, qishuo hendy, zeinab m. alele, joseph o. al-mashhadany, osamah h. abdelhamid, mahmoud a.
Assessing the energy cycle and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of wheat production in small Egyptian farms is essential to improve wheat productivity to meet population growth and achieve sustainable development. This study aims to compare wheat production in terms of energy use and GHG emissions for different scenarios in the Delta of Egypt and to ...
masoomi, leila taran-lala, olena l. smith, charlotte v. trollman, hana
The aim of this research is to comparatively analyse the potential for implementing Industry 4 [...]
thomson, jessica l. landry, alicia s. walls, tameka i. mcmillen, randall
The study’s purpose was to determine small farm product amounts and seasonality and examine spatial relationships between small farms and K-12 public schools in Mississippi. Online survey participation invitations were sent via email to farmers and school food service directors from October 2021 to January 2022. Data were summarized using descripti...
lucio, alfredo valverde gonzalez-martínez, ana serrano, evangelina rodero
Pork production in Ecuador is of significant economic and nutritional importance. Many of these operations are family- or backyard-based and utilize alternative feed ingredients to reduce production costs. The current study aimed to determine the chemical composition of cooked cassava and taro, and to evaluate their inclusion in the feed of backyar...
Callahan, Rachael
During COVID-19, California small farmers and ranchers suffered significant disruptions and shifts in the marketplace, marked by a loss in wholesale outlets and an increase in demand for direct-to-consumer sales. This study examines how agritourism operators responded to the challenges and opportunities created by the pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, in...
