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 …

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is actually discussed at the European level. The impact of the new CAP will be important for European dairy farmers. Having knowledge into it is important in order to know what farmers are expecting for the future CAP reform. Moreover, the main objective was to understand …

Wine consumption is decreasing for many decades, but organic products demand is increasing. To counter the image of Spanish wines which is “poor quality and cheap wines” because of their big quantity production and their low prices, Spanish wine producers change their farming method. Spain ranks first …

Een groep Friese biologische boeren wil de meerwaarde van de biologische manier van boeren beter voor het voetlicht brengen. Bovendien willen ze elkaar scherp houden om het nog beter te doen.