The main purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between trainers’ qualification and learning success and satisfaction of small-scale farmers during training activities in Bihar, India. Moderated mediation analysis is utilized to measure the direct and indirect effects of trainers’ qualification on learning success and satisfaction. Therefore, the psychological constructs of attitude and perceived control from the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) operate as mediators, subjective norms act as moderator, and gender and age serve as covariates
We look at the trade-off between smallholder cocoa intensification and the ecosystem in Indonesia and investigate the determinants of environmental efficiency in cocoa production. In our analysis, we apply a distance output function that includes cocoa production and the abundance of native rainforest plants as outputs. Our data set, based on a household and environment survey conducted in 2015, allows us to analyze 208 cocoa producers with both measured and self-reported data. We find that the intensification of cocoa farms results in higher ecosystem degradation.
The latest turmoil of production and price volatility in the global food sector has put agriculture back to the top of the development agenda. Population growth, changing consumer preferences, bioenergy demand and climate change are some of the huge challenges for agricultural production today and in the future. In the last decades, productivity has been constantly improved through the introduction of improved crop varieties and the greater use of mechanization, irrigation, chemical fertilizer and pesticides.
Labor saving innovations are essential to increase agricultural productivity, but they might also increase inequality through displacing labor. Empirical evidence on such labor displacements is limited. This study uses representative data at local and national scales to analyze labor market effects of the expansion of oil palm among smallholder farmers in Indonesia. Oil palm is labor-saving in the sense that it requires much less labor per unit of land than alternative crops.
While several studies have shown that genetically modified Bt cotton can benefit smallholder farmers economically, the sustainability of these effects is still unclear and debated controversially between biotechnology proponents and critics. We use unique panel data of 533 cotton farmers, collected in India between 2002 and 2008, to analyze Bt impacts on cotton yield, profit, and household living standards. Results from fixed effects models show that the adoption of Bt cotton is associated with a net yield gain of 24% and a profit increase of 50%.
In Sub-Sahara Africa, adoption rates of improved crop varieties remain relatively low, which is partly due to farmers’ limited access to information. In smallholder settings, information often spreads through informal networks. Better understanding of such networks could potentially help to spur innovation and farmers’ exposure to new technologies. This study uses survey data from Tanzania to analyze social networks and their role for the spread of information about improved varieties of maize and sorghum.
El objetivo de la presente investigación fue analizar a través del tiempo el impacto de la intervención de la agencia de gestión de la innovación (AGI) en pequeños ovinocultores en el Estado de México. Se mapeó la red de 78 productores de ovinos en las delegaciones Atlacomulco y Jilotepec del Estado de México, durante tres momentos de observación: momento I, antes de la intervención (año 2007); Momento II, con la intervención (año 2009) y momento III, posterior a la intervención (año 2011)
Este artículo se plantea diseñar un Esquema Ideal de Acceso al Financiamiento (ESIAFIN) que posibilite a los productores de maíz de temporal en zonas de alta y muy alta marginación obtener el crédito que se requiera para poder implementar las innovaciones de bajo costo y se pueda mejorar el rendimiento del cultivo del maíz en la estrategia Asteca-maíz
El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el proceso de gestión de conocimiento e innovación de la cadena ovinos en Villa Victoria, Estado de México. Mediante diagnóstico participativo y análisis de redes se analizó información de 63 productores para identificar la problemática e innovaciones implementadas y proponer estrategias de desarrollo de capacidades para incrementar el uso de tecnologías.
El presente trabajo tuvo como objetivo analizar las redes de financiamiento entre las instituciones de investigación pertenecientes al sistema nacional de investigación agropecuario (SNIA) en México. En 2014 fueron realizadas 164 encuestas a instituciones de educación (IES), centros públicos de investigación (CPI) y empresas o instituciones de investigación privado (SP) que realizan acciones de investigación en el ámbito agropecuario en México. Se utilizó la metodología de redes sociales para analizar y caracterizar la red de financiamiento de las instituciones del SNIA a nivel nacional