Common bean is a vital legume essential crop in Uganda. Common bean seed marketing and accessibility is the major concern in south western agro-ecological zone for both small-scale farmers and seed producers. An acute element in attaining higher crop yield is better access to key farming inputs by farmers …

Over the last ten years, Liberia has recorded temperature increase and low rainfall. Due to this, productivity in agriculture has drastically decreased and now Liberia imports 75% of its staple food(rice). Liberia’s agriculture segment is considered forest-based under traditional systems of subsistence …

This research aimed to find out how the Netherlands and the UAE can collaborate on seaweed production by using the Dubai Expo to bring both parties together. Seaweed brings a green solution towards the Food Security index pressures felt in the UAE now. These pressures are; water availability, oceans …

The horticultural farming development cannot be achieved without the involvement of various shareholders including the training and research institutions. The absence of collaboration between tomato farmers and TVET higher learning institution weakens farmer’s development and does not disclose the capabilities …

The dairy sector in Kenya is one of the pillars for smallholder farmers' livelihoods through the generation of income, employment, and food to 2 million people across the dairy value chain although the sector is still vulnerable to climate change. Agriterra stimulates climate-smart agriculture and carbon …

The main objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of contract farming in improving smallholder maize seed multipliers income so that the improvement strategies can be established. The study was carried out at the beginning of the implementation of the new seeds supply system. The research …

The southern highlands regions of Tanzania form the important potato growing part of the country. Several initiatives have been and they are still being established to develop the sub-sector, CD-PIT being part of them. Productivity is the key challenge that farmers face which is articulated with their …

Cooperatives are fundamental organizations in small holder agriculture in developing countries. With the rising and immeasurable climate change effects in such economies, cooperatives urgently need to compete as more ecologically as compared to their current economic and social targets. With the deteriorating …

Smallholder farmers in Tepus, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, rely on rain fed farming that is based on indigenous knowledge. The indigenous knowledge farming practice is called ngawu-awu relying on weather predictions on the traditional Javanese calendar called Pranata Mangsa. The traditional Javanese …

Organic farming is increasingly promoted as a means to reduce the environmental impact of artificial fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and antibiotics in conventional dairy systems. These factors potentially affect the microbial communities of the production stages (soil, silage, dung, and milk) of …