It is important to identify the special characteristics of marketable surplus relations in a deficit village. Earlier studies have investigated the determinants of marketable surplus of subsistence ...
Climate change is creating a nightmare scenario for subsistence farmers around the world. Subsistence farms are typically small operations, often less than 2 hectares, with outsize importance to the ...
A new study has found that deforestation for subsistence agriculture often occurs nearby commercial logging, mining and agriculture operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Shifting cultivation ...
Human Organization is the journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology and the leading peer reviewed outlet for scholarship in the applied social sciences. The journal advances SfAA's mission ...
Agriculture is the leading industry in Africa—employing approximately 65% of the labour force—and is imperative for improving food security and addressing hunger. Since smallholder farmers generate up ...
The experience of the last decades in developing countries has shown that agricultural subsistence-oriented small landholdings, many of which are managed by women, have not benefited from trade ...
KARACHI, Oct 18 Two government-owned financial institutions — National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) and National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) — are launching from next week the crop loan insurance ...
A team of scientists from the U.K. and Brazil used an array of 132 camera traps to snap more than 60,000 photographs around 47 farming communities in the Amazon. They also conducted 157 interviews ...
New photos reveal the secret lives of Amazonian crop-raiding animals. Researchers spent a year working with 47 Amazonian communities in the Juruá region of Amazonas, Brazil. They set up 132 ...