Hanne Svarstad, Ragnhild Overå, Tor A. Benjaminsen
Power plays a key role in definitions of political ecology. Likewise, empirical studies within this field tend to provide detailed presentations of various uses of power, involving corporate and conservation interventions influencing access to land and natural resources. The results include struggle...
J. R. Witcombe, K.D. Joshi, Sanjaya Gyawali, A. M. MUSA et al.
In this paper we attempt to remove the dichotomy created by distinguishing between participatory and non-participatory breeding programmes by using the degree of client orientation as the basis for an analysis. Although all breeding programmes are implicitly client-oriented, we examine how participa...
Benjamin K. Sovacool
Bangladesh contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions, yet it is one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. Based on semi-structured research interviews as a conduit to a literature review, this paper shows how the processes of enclosure, exclusion, encroachment, and entrench...
<title>Abstract</title> A comparative study between Asian agricultural development during the Green Revolution in food production and the current problematic agricultural situation in sub-Saharan Africa is presented. Case studies of eight African (viz. Ghana, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger...
Mélinda Smale, Richard E. Just, Howard D. Leathers
Abstract Microeconomic theory provides four competing explanations for partial land allocation to new and traditional seed varieties in HYV adoption decisions: input fixity, portfolio selection, safety‐first behavior, and learning. Testing a general model that contains each as a special case suggest...
Frédéric Baudron, B.G. Sims, Scott Justice, David Kahan et al.
Sanzidur Rahman
Mohammed Rahmatullah, Abu Noman, Md Shahadat Hossan, Md. Harun-Or-Rashid et al.
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb
Adoption of new agricultural technologies is always at the center of policy interest in developing countries. In reality, despite the visible benefits of many of the new agricultural technologies, including machinery and management practices, farmers either do not adopt them or it takes a long time ...
Abdullah Al Masud, Emily K. Rousham, Mohammad Aminul Islam, Mahbub‐Ul Alam et al.
Background: There is increasing concern around the use of antibiotics in animal food production and the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance within the food chain. In many low and middle-income countries, including Bangladesh, the commercial poultry sector comprises small-scale producers...
Pepijn Schreinemachers, Mei-Huey Wu, Mohammed Nasir Uddin, Shahabuddin Ahmad et al.
The cultivation of crops outside the regular cropping calendar when supply is low and prices are high can give farmers better profits and consumers more choice. However, off-season production may increase pesticide risk if crops are more affected by pests and diseases and farmers do not handle pesti...
Jeetendra Prakash Aryal, Tek B. Sapkota, Timothy J. Krupnik, Dil Bahadur Rahut et al.
Fertilizer, though one of the most essential inputs for increasing agricultural production, is a leading cause of nitrous oxide emissions from agriculture, contributing significantly to global warming. Therefore, understanding factors affecting farmers' use of fertilizers is crucial to develop strat...
Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss‐White, Sugata Bose
Introduction - Ben Rogaly, Barbara Harriss-White and Sugata Bose Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Change in West Bengal and Bangladesh PART ONE: AGRICULTURAL GROWTH, POVERTY AND WELL-BEING Agricultural Growth and Agrarian Structure in Bengal - Sugata Bose An Historical Overview Agricultural Growth a...
Harold L. Hodgkinson
Editor's Note: The editorial team of the Journal of Teacher Education asked Professor Hodgkinson to write a brief overview of U.S. demographics and teacher education that would help to introduce this issue of the journal on Demography and Democracy. In a later issue of JTE, a full-length article by ...
Sally Shortall
This article focuses on two specific gender related changes that are linked to agricultural and rural restructuring, at least partly motivated by the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The first relates to the increase in part–time farming and women’s increasing off–farm work, linked to...