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Journal articles on the topic "Anthropological aspects of Agricultural assistance"
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Antonio L., Rappa. "A Neo-Marxist Anthropology of Urban Workers and Peasant Farmers in Thailand." BOHR International Journal of Business Ethics and Corporate Governance 1, no. 1 (2021): 57–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.54646/bijbecg.008.
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This article is an original cultural anthropological study that is based on fieldwork done by the principal investigator, Antonio L. Rappa, on groups of urban workers and peasant farmers of Bangkok, Chiangmai, and Pattaya from 1998 to 2016. The focus of this article is on how these workers survive late modernity within the neoliberal capitalist world scenario. The fieldwork also showed the importance of materialism among Thai workers and how they remain trapped in giving up the surplus labor value of their work to the bourgeoisie (Marxian Theory). Since 1932 (the Siamese and since 1946), the Thai workers have been suppressed and exploited by the ruling elite (Power Elite Theory). Whether we use a Cultural Anthropological/Marxian, neo-Marxist Anthropological, or Power Elite theory (C. Wright Mills’ Theory) approach, it remains clear in 2022 that the Thai people still continue to be imprisoned by a desire for luxury goods and services (Thorstein Veblen). Then, there is the complication of religion. At least 93% of all Thai people are Theravada Buddhists and staunchly believe in worshipping the Buddha as well as in various superstitions. The remaining 5–7% are Muslims and Christians. It is only the Muslims who have consistently given political trouble to the Bangkok capitalists but the Muslims are not socialists or communists since they believe in the god known as Allah. Ever since the 1970s, Thailand came under serious threat from communism like many Southeast Asian states. King Bhumiphon Adulyadej (Rama IX) was already a deeply respected monarch and a virtual demi-God to the superstitious and animistic Thai Buddhists. Few Thais realized at that time that the King was also a well-read scientist knowledgeable in urban planning and agriculture. Rama IX applied the knowledge that he garnered from Switzerland and Cambridge, Massachusetts, toward building a new kind of thinking, called Self-Sufficiency Economy (SSE). Rama IX’s SSE was not unique to Thailand and commonly practiced to various effects in South Asia, the Far East, and Southeast Asia. Nevertheless, the king thought that the SSE would be a good way out for his people. He believed that if each Tambon or village could cooperate using existing resources, provincial assistance in agricultural knowledge, and the model-village concept, then the Thai people would be self-sufficient in many aspects. This was also known as the One-Thambon, One-Product (OTOP) policy. This is itself a manifestation of the materialist cultural anthropologic of Thai culture itself. The article concludes with an analysis of the dual pricing system or two-tier pricing system, and why the Thai people appear to support Thorstein Veblen’s Theory and C. Wright Mills’ Theory rather than any neo-Marxist theory of land distribution and property ownership.
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Pamuji, Kukuh. "Fenomena Seni Pertunjukan Sintren Pesisiran dan Pemberdayaan Masyarakat melalui Pedekatan Antropologis." Abdi Seni 13, no. 1 (June 9, 2022): 54–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.33153/abdiseni.v13i1.4220.
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The phenomenon of coastal sintren performing arts in the border areas of West Java (Cirebon and Indramayu) and Central Java (Brebes, Tegal, Pemalang) which has local genius by carrying out cultural transformations between traditions and mystical traditional arts transforming with modern culture as an effect of urban culture, finally with the transformation of culture will be transformed into urban culture. The problems that exist in the Sintren Pesisitran art community include: (1) the lack of support for the development and preservation of coastal traditional arts, (2) How the art of performing the Coastal Sintren can holistically rediscover the essence of aspects of cultural expression and the development of other creative aspects. This empowerment program is carried out through various mentoring programs including; (1) empowering creative human resources, (2) choreography training, musical instruments, (3) costume assistance for several Sintren Pesisiran communities. The results of community empowerment assistance, including: The performing arts of coastal sintren can be studied holistically, aspects of art as expression, art as pragmatics, anthropological and sociological studies. Pragmatically, this typical coastal art performs practical activities for various aspects of interest. It was then realized by the performing arts community that their creative activities are not just expressions. Social aspects are also interpreted more broadly when we look at the educational aspect, of course with multidimensional and multi-interpreted discourses.
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Ramachandran, B. Bindu. "Seafood Kitchen." International Journal of Rural Management 13, no. 2 (October 2017): 199–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973005217721005.
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This research note provides an anthropological insight on Seafood Kitchen, a microenterprise under ‘Theeramythri’—the flagship project of Society for Assistance to Fisherwomen (SAF) in Kerala. SAF as an agency was formed in a critical situation where the livelihood aspects and resources of the coastal communities were destroyed after Tsunami in 2004. Department of fisheries under government of Kerala initiated and established microenterprises for fisherwomen under ‘Theeramythri’ to make use of the local resources through women empowerment. Seafood Kitchen was one of the many initiatives of Theeramythri. With the intervention and support of government and organizations like SAF, fisherwomen now come forward to take up microenterprises and their involvement shows remarkable changes in family and society. The present study highlights the different aspects of Seafood Kitchen and its scope for development of fisherwomen in the coast of Kerala from an etic perspective.
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Azis, M., Y. H. Saputra, and A. Setiyanto. "Factors affecting sustainability of agricultural machinery assistance program." IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science 892, no. 1 (November 1, 2021): 012018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/892/1/012018.
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Abstract One of the Ministry of Agriculture’s efforts to support agricultural development is by providing equipment and machinery assistance. There are many multi-dimensional problems, both technical, socio-cultural, economic, and environmental. This study aimed to analyze the sustainability status of the agricultural equipment and machinery assistance program. This research was conducted in 2020 with the object of the two-wheeled tractor and four-wheeled tractor assistance program in 2018-2019. Research location covers six districts, the selection of site determined by the provinces considered the most successful and the least successful in realizing activities. The sustainability status of the activity program was analyzed using Multidimensional Scale Analysis. The collected data and information through structured questionnaires from 47 institutional respondents and literature studies, both printed and electronic. The results showed that agricultural equipment and machinery assistance program (TR2 and TR4) was less sustainable. The comparison of the MDS value and Monte Carlo’s analysis was 49.93, with an R2 value of 89%. The S-Stress statistical test is still relatively high, namely 0.30 (above 0.25), which means improvements and refinement needs from the implementation aspect. Improvements from various elements are divides into two groups. First, leverage factors that encourage the sustainability and success of the implementation of activities, and the second is the improvement of the performance of TR2 and TR4 beneficiary groups. Policy recommendations for implementing future program activities are a strict selection of potential beneficiaries and improvements in the management aspects of beneficiaries at the farmer level by providing guidance.
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Farias, Areano Ethério Moreira de, José Romero Alexandre Alves, Francisco Selmo Fernandes Alves, Raymundo Rizaldo Pinheiro, Patrícia Yoshida Faccioli-Martins, Ana Milena Cézar Lima, Sérgio Santos Azevedo, and Clebert José Alves. "Characterization of goat production systems in five states of northeastern Brazil." Semina: Ciências Agrárias 40, no. 6Supl3 (October 16, 2019): 3691. http://dx.doi.org/10.5433/1679-0359.2019v40n6supl3p3691.
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Goat farming is a very important activity contributing to the social and economic development of northeastern (NE) Brazil. The objective of the present study was to characterize the goat farming production system in five of the nine states that constitute the Brazilian NE (Ceará, Paraíba, Piauí, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe). Research was carried out in 230 rural properties located in 62 municipalities of the NE of Brazil, in regions exhibiting a productive arrangement and significant goat population density. An epidemiological questionnaire seeking information on economic, productive, and social aspects of owners/properties was supplied to all properties. The results described the goat farming system in the Brazilian NE as family and subsistence, directed towards domestic consumption and local commerce, and exhibiting a low technological level. The farmers' education level, investments, and technical assistance were all considered low, and thus insufficient or inadequate for a full development of the activity in the region. Therefore, such aspects are suggested to be taken into account in the planning of future goat farming development policies—particularly financing and technical assistance, better preparation of farmers, administrative aspects, forage production and conservation, and the implementation of actions towards reproductive and frequent disease control.
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González, Armando Nova, and Mario A. Gonzalez-Corzo. "Cuba’s Agricultural Transformations." Journal of Agricultural Studies 3, no. 2 (June 26, 2015): 175. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jas.v3i2.7547.
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The Cuban government has implemented a series of agricultural transformations since 2007 to increase the country’s agricultural self-sufficiency and reduce its dependency on food imports. These include the transfer (in usufruct) of State-owned land to non-State producers (e.g. cooperatives and private farmers), moderate price reforms, the decentralization of decision making, and the gradual relaxation of existing forms of agricultural commercialization. As a result of these measures, the area planted, as well as physical output and agricultural yields (in selected non-sugar crop categories) have shown mixed results, but still remain below desired levels. There are three (3) fundamental unresolved aspects that have prevented Cuba’s agricultural sector from achieving the desired outcomes: (1) the need to achieve the “realization of property,” (2) the recognition and acceptance of the market as a complementary economic coordination mechanism, and (3) the absence of a systemic focus to achieve the successful completion of the agricultural production cycle. These unresolved aspects should be addressed through: (1) the consolidation of input markets, where producers can obtain essential inputs at prices that correspond to the prices they can obtain for their output, (2) greater autonomy to allow agricultural producers to freely decide when, where, and to whom they could sell their output, after social contracts have been fulfilled, (3) the diversification of the forms of agricultural commercialization to permit greater participation by non-State economic actors, (4) allowing agricultural producers to freely hire the labor necessary to sustain and increase production, and (5) providing agricultural producers with the financing and technical assistance necessary.
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Cherevatova, T. F., O. S. Ermolaeva, I. E. Bystrenina, and M. N. Stepantsevich. "ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS OF AGRICULTURAL ENTERPRISES." Scientific Review Theory and Practice 11, no. 8 (2021): 2397–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.35679/2226-0226-2021-11-8-2397-2414.
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The authors of the article see the problem of digitalization of agriculture in the insufficient funding resources at the enterprises for the introduction of information and communication technologies, development of infrastructure in rural areas, shortage of IT-personnel, etc. The solution of these problems is facilitated by the integration of information systems, which is necessary to begin with the agricultural enterprises themselves. The paper notes the influence of external and internal factors on the improvement of agricultural business. Rosstat (Federal State Statistics Service) data on the agricultural enterprise performance and the use of special software are presented. Integration implies the implementation of the interconnection and interdependence of all parts of the system with the separation of the area of influence on each other, taking into account two features: structural levels and enterprise management functions. Design, development and use of a ready-made information system of the enterprise should include business logic, functional and user requirements for the system. As an integrated system, it is proposed to use ERP- systems based on the management of a single data warehouse containing all the necessary corporate information: production, financial, personnel, etc. An example of such a system is the 1C: ERP Agro-industrial Complex 2 software product, which takes into account the industry specifics of the agro-industrial complex enterprises and allows leveling sanction risks. Another important aspect of the problem under study is the use of information systems based on geo- information technologies providing information support for decision-making on the base of accumulated data of a digital terrain model, remote sensing of land, soil characteristics, use of land resources, monitoring of agricultural- purpose land. By increasing the scale, agricultural enterprises are able to meet their own domestic needs completely and enter international markets with environmentally safe quality products. Integrated information systems will provide them with effective assistance providing complete reliable information for making managerial decisions.
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Raczkoski, Brandon M., and M. Craig Edwards. "U.S. International Agricultural Development: What Events, Forces, Actors, and Philosophical Perspectives Presaged Its Approach?" Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 25, no. 2 (August 15, 2018): 11–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2018.25202.
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The philosophical perspectives, including significant actors, events, and forces, that influenced and presaged the United States’ approach to international agricultural development are somewhat unclear. The purpose of this historical narrative, therefore, was to understand the key drivers responsible for forging the U.S. framework for technical agricultural assistance abroad, especially in its formative years. The study’s findings were reported by answering two questions. The first question explored historical events, including federal legislative acts and statutes, which precipitated the U.S. approach to international agricultural development. The second research question addressed the philosophical primers imbued in the U.S. approach to international agricultural development, including significant actors responsible for championing it. We assert the environmental pragmatism of Liberty Hyde Bailey and its other proponents was the philosophical foundation and worldview that informed many of the pioneers who guided the U.S. approach to offering agricultural assistance as part of the nation’s international development efforts. As such, we recommend the inclusion of certain aspects of environmentalism in agricultural and extension educator preparation with implications for international and domestic development, including long-term sustainability initiatives.
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Mardiharini, Maesti, Chandra Indrawanto, and Eni Siti Rohaeni. "Performance evaluation of sustainable agricultural-techno park development in Cigombong, West Java." E3S Web of Conferences 306 (2021): 02058. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202130602058.
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One of the efforts to accelerate the flow of technological research results to users/farmers is through the development of Agricultural Techno Park (ATP). In this study, the performance evaluation of ATP development using cluster analysis was conducted by applying the Context, Input, Process, and Product (CIPP) model. The aims were to analyze the progress of ATP through clustering techniques and to formulate alternative strategy in the future. This study was conducted using a structured survey approach involving 76 farmers, April to June 2018, at the ATP Cigombong, West Java, Indonesia. The results of distance and similarity analysis showed that aspects of input and process had a closeness of satisfaction. Innovation assistance activities are not optimal, which should lead to becoming independent farmers. The future strategy has formulated context and product indicators in a participatory manner from the beginning, so that the target group understands and detects the progress. Farmers’ needs must be identified from the beginning of ATP development to strengthen self-reliance of supporting facilities. ATP needs to formulate a new method in planning of innovation assistance. It is also important to develop new training (such as motivational training, technical and managerial skills).
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Saloka, Gilang Aji, Annisa Setyaningrum, Christina Pralambang Tunggal Siwi, Deandra Suci Nur Widayati, Dina Putri Ambarwati, Fahmi Aziz, Fatimah Az Zahra, et al. "Pengembangan Kelompok Wanita Tani dalam Budidaya Tanaman Empon-Empon dan Sayuran Bersama Tanifoundation di Gondangrejo Karanganyar, Jawa Tengah." PengabdianMu: Jurnal Ilmiah Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat 7, no. 5 (September 30, 2022): 719–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.33084/pengabdianmu.v7i5.3089.
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The Jesa Karya Women Farmers Group (KWT), located in Gondangrejo, Karanganyar, is one of the KWTs with developing vegetables and empon-empon growing commodities. There are many challenges faced by KWT Jesa Karya, both internally and externally, so support from various aspects is needed to encourage the development process of KWT Jesa Karya. Through an independent study program, this support is in farmer assistance carried out by TaniHub and agricultural students. The method used in this assistance is Participatory Rural Appraisal (PRA). Interviews and observations were also conducted to obtain information on farmer groups' empowerment and the problems investigated. Jesa Karya KWT is developed through socialization mentoring programs, assistance in vegetable cultivation to product marketing, discussions on strengthening farmer group institutions, monitoring, and evaluation. Mentoring shows changes in improving the quality of their agricultural products, developing post-harvest products, and digital marketing to strengthen the resilience of farmers in increasing their business scale, realizing self-reliance, and improving the welfare of members. Member participation in this activity can be seen from members' enthusiasm in every activity held in support and efforts to form an effective program for developing KWT Jesa Karya.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Anthropological aspects of Agricultural assistance"
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Aboagye, Anthony Q. Q. "Financial flows, macroeconomic policy and the agricultural sector in Sub-Saharan Africa." Thesis, McGill University, 1998. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=35672.
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This thesis focuses on the effects of development assistance (ODA), private foreign commercial capital (PFX), domestic savings (SAV), the openness of the economy and producer prices on agricultural output, and on export and domestic shares of agricultural output in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This study uses panel data spanning 27 countries and the period 1970 to 1993.The production function is a Cobb-Douglas type. Static export and domestic share equations are derived from a specification of the agricultural gross domestic product function. Transformed auto-regressive distributed-lag versions of the static share models are used to investigate long-run dynamics, persistence and implementation lags in the share response model.
Agricultural output is affected as follows. ODA, PFX and SAV have small positive or negative impact depending on agricultural region or economic policy environment. The impact of openness of the economy is negative in all agricultural regions, however, there is evidence of positive effect of openness within improved policy environment. None of these effects are statistically significant.
Export share is affected as follows. ODA, PFX and SAV have small positive impact in some agricultural regions and policy environments, both in the short-run and in the long-run. PFX is not significant anywhere. ODA is significant only when countries are grouped by policy environment in the short-run. SAV is significant in the short-run only in some regions, and significant in the long-run only in others. Openness has positive impact in the short-run. This is significant in many regions. Its long-run impact is mostly positive but not significant anywhere. The impact of producer price is mostly positive but not significant.
Efforts to encourage economic activities in rural communities such as improvements in domestic terms of trade in favor of agriculture, together with the provision of infrastructure are likely to stimulate output. Strategies to diversify and process agricultural exports in the face of falling agricultural commodity prices should be pursued.
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Dwesini, Nontembiso Eugenia. "The implications of smallholder agricultural productivity growth for poverty alleviation in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, University of Fort Hare, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1021286.
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The adoption of the Millennium Development Goal 1(MDG 1) of reducing the rate of poverty to half of the 1990-level by 2015 has been a challenge faced by the developing countries including South Africa. The foundations of democracy have to be continuously assessed so that the obstacles faced by South Africa as it strives towards sustainable democracy are addressed. With agricultural sector identified as having the potential to alleviate poverty compared to the mining sector, manufacturing sector and services sector, it faced the challenges that include: (i) accelerating agricultural productivity; (ii) reducing poverty and vulnerability; and (iii) narrowing rural-urban income disparities. The identification of the critical linkages in the agricultural development framework allows for effective strategic planning, effective decision making and appropriate policy formulation. Expectedly, the sector has attracted considerable fiscal policy interest and public investments. The primary aim of this research study is to assess the extent to which smallholder agricultural productivity growth alleviates poverty in South Africa. The statistical and econometric techniques namely; Johansen technique of co-integration analysis (1995), analysis of covariance and correlation, Vector Error Correction Model, are employed in this research study. The data description, data sources, expected relationship between variables and indexation of data are done. The drivers and cause-effect relationships between agriculture and poverty reduction are investigated. The employed models allowed for an exploration of plausible future growth in agricultural elasticity of poverty and the possibility of reducing poverty level in South Africa. The data is obtained from the National Department of Agriculture from 1994 -2013. The analysis of the results strongly confirms that agricultural productivity has a significant inverse relationship to the levels of poverty in South Africa. The outcome of the analysis will contribute to improved decision making on the use of public funds in agriculture.
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Hill, Cherry Ann. "Grave rites and grave rights: anthropological study of the removal of farm graves in northern peri-urban Johannesburg." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/20681.
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Text in EnglishIn a diachronic and multi-sited study that extended from 2004 through 2012/2013 I deconstructed the sociocultural dynamics of relocating farm graves from the farm Zevenfontein in northern peri-urban Johannesburg. The graves at the focus of the study were some seventy-six graves removed from a northern portion of the farm in 2004 for a huge development project that commenced construction in 2010, and other graves removed in the 1980s from portions of the farm developed for residential estates in the 1990s. The study explored the people who dwelt on the farm and created the graveyards, the religious processes entailed in relocating the mortal remains of ancestors, the mortuary processes of exhuming and reburying ancestors, the disputations between and negotiating processes of landowners and grave owners, and the demands and demonstrations by farm workers and dwellers seeking redress for past human and cultural rights infringements. Although the topic of farm graves is well-referenced in land claims and sense of place discourses and is not in itself a new topic, this study provides original and in-depth information and insight on the broader picture of ancestral graves and their relocation, including the structuring of a community and its leaders and followers, it suggests answers to the question as to whether ancestral graves/graveyards can successfully and functionally be relocated. Not only are religious aspects examined in the study, but also the sociopolitical and economic dimensions of relocating graves are fully scrutinised in the context of farm workers and dwellers’ political awareness of and astuteness to the social and economic potential of farm graves and their relocation.
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Phatudi-Mphahlele, Magalane Dillis. "Analysis of socio-economic impact of comprehensive agricultural support programme on agrarian reform farmers of Sedibeng disrict municipality in Gauteng province South Africa." Diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/23488.
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This study examined the impact of the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme (CASP) on the livelihood of land and agrarian reform farmers in Sedibeng District Municipality of Gauteng Province, South Africa. The programme serves as a post settlement support to agricultural projects. Post settlement support is very critical to achieving many projects of South Africa and other neighbouring countries. The study diagnosed the key variables that could be used in reforming, correcting and tightening in order to have a sustainable agricultural project. The study also indicated the variables that could have positive and negative contributions on the effects of obtaining the socio-economic deliverables of the CASP agrarian reform farmers.
A comprehensive structured questionnaire was designed and used to collect data from 300 agrarian reform farmers in Sedibeng District Municipality. The study employed Probit Regression model and Propensity Score Matching to estimate the impact of CASP on farmers’ income. The key findings were that CASP promoted the livelihood of the rural economy by increasing farmers’ incomes. CASP had a high impact on the income of agrarian reform farmers who benefited on it than non-benefited. Socio-economic and institutional factors were found to influence participation in CASP. The survey data indicate that the majority of respondents who participate in CASP (74.4%) were males while 25.6% were female. About (32%) of CASP participants had attained primary school education, 28.3% had secondary school education, and 23.3% had education at the college level while 16.4% acquired high school education. For non- CASP participant, 71.6% was male and 28.4% was female. About (32.1%) of non-CASP participants had acquired primary education, 23.5% had secondary school education, 25.9% had education at the college level while 18.5% acquired high school education About 53.9% representing the CASP participants was married while only 6.8% was single, 19.2 was divorced and 20.1 are widowed. The percentage of non-CASP participant that were married was about 51.9% and 8.6% are single, 23.5% are divorced while 16.0 are widowed. About 22.8% of the CASP participant indicated that their household heads were employed while 77.8% are unemployed. About16.9% of CASP participants had obtained qualification in agriculture while the majority (83.1%) did not have any qualification in agriculture. Only 18.5% of non-CASP participant obtained qualification in agriculture while 81.5% have not obtained any qualification in agriculture.
The study recommended that CASP be extended to more agrarian reform farmers and it will promote food security and sustainable strategy to achieve the post 2015 development agenda (2030 agenda-succeed the Millennium Development Goals) for sustainable development goals targets ending poverty and hunger. In order to achieve more participation, factors identified to influence CASP participation needed to be given more attention critical in policy formulation.Agriculture, Animal Health and Human Ecology
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Kimilike, Lechion Peter. "An African perspective on poverty provebs in the book of proverbs : an analysis for transformational possibilities." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2372.
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An African Perspective on Poverty Proverbs in the Book of Proverbs: An Analysis for Transformational Possibilities. This thesis contributes to the emerging global scholarly discussion on prioritising the practical relevance of biblical interpretation, particularly in Africa. Taking poverty as a case study, this thesis employs the notion of the popular social origin of proverbs to critically analyse the subject in the Book of Proverbs. A social anthropological approach, historical-critical methods, rhetorical criticism and contextual exegesis are used to analyse proverbs regarding the poor in the Book of Proverbs and African proverbial material. On one hand, the investigation reveals that many Western scholars take their cue from the `official' social context of the Book of Proverbs. However, the impact of an unconscious subjectivity owing to the Western secularising influence on their studies into poverty has posited a conservative status quo in the way the Book of Proverbs addresses it. On the other hand, an investigation of similar traditional African proverbial material on the poor reveals a holistic transformative possibility. Its life-centred dynamism is located in an integrative worldview that comprises mutual assistance, collective responsibility, family, community, social, political, religious and economic networks as one whole. Because cultural parallels exist between the society of ancient Israel and traditional African societies, the thesis argues the use of the African proverbial performance context in the interpretation of proverbs concerning the poor in the Book of Proverbs. The result of such cross-cultural application highlights the possible transformative social, economic, political and religious supportive networks essential to a viable and sustainable holistic development of society. Consequently, such a holistic approach to poverty may enable Bible readers to make meaning and empower the will of African Christians to rise practically to the challenge of poverty eradication in all spheres of their lives. A caution also to the universal church is to be found in the fact that the Book of Proverbs made an essential contribution to the transformation of the social, economic, political and religious life of Israel. Approaching the Book of Proverbs in terms of a popular context is a fact that can no longer be simply ignored.Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern Studies
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Books on the topic "Anthropological aspects of Agricultural assistance"
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1949-, Sillitoe Paul, and Pottier Johan, eds. Development and local knowledge: New approaches to issues in natural resources management, conservation, and agriculture. New York: Routledge, 2003.
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Fry, Gerald. The international education of the development consultant: Communicating with peasants and princes. Oxford [England]: Pergamon Press, 1989.
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Grenier, Louise. Working with indigenous knowledge: A guide for researchers. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre, 1998.
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Cossío, Consuelo Yáñez. Representaciones y conceptos estructurantes: Un aporte al método. Quito: Corporación Educativa MACAC, 1990.
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O, Skar Harald, ed. Anthropological contributions to planned change and development. Göteborg, Sweden: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1985.
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Mi nombre ha de vivir: Y yo me he de ir a mi destino (tránsito Amaguaña), género, producción y aprendizaje intercultural en los pueblos andinos. Quito: CEDERENA, 2005.
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Silverman, Marilyn, and Feit Harvey A, eds. Ethnography and development: The work of Richard F. Salisbury. Montréal: McGill University Libraries, 2004.
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United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act: Report (to accompany H.R. 2893). [Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O., 1991.
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Lele, Uma J. Agricultural growth and assistance to Africa: Lessons of a quarter century. San Francisco, CA: International Center for Economic Growth/ICS Press [distributor], 1990.
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Tōkyō Nōgyō Daigaku. Nōgyō Takushoku Gakka. Nōgyō no kaihatsu gijutsu kyōryoku: 30-shūnen kinen ronbunshū. Tōkyō: Tōkyō Nōgyō Daigaku Nōgyō Takushoku Gakka, 1987.
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OGRYZEK, Marek, and Krzysztof RZĄSA. "THE SOCIAL ASPECTS OF RURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY." In RURAL DEVELOPMENT. Aleksandras Stulginskis University, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.15544/rd.2017.153.
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The rural development policy of the Agricultural Property Stock of the State Treasury in Poland (APS) is conducted by The Agricultural Property Agency – APA (since 1.09.2017 – The National Centre for Agriculture Support). The property managed by the APA includes agricultural land, forests, farm buildings, residential buildings as well as equipment and devices that are part of the social, technical, production, commercial and service infrastructure. The aim of research was to proof the influence of the gratuitous transfer of land from the APS to local government units, to engage them in social activities. The main methods used for it were: the analyse of legal acts in Poland, the analyse of reports and statistic data from APA and method of cartographic presentation – quantitative, cartogram. This article focuses on the social aspects of the APA’s operations, based on an analysis of the data supplied by the Regional Branch of the Agricultural Property Agency in Olsztyn. The results of the analyses were presented in table format. The rural development policy concerning the performance of public purposes in rural areas was analysed. The obtained information and materials were analysed to identify social investments carried out on agricultural land donated to local authorities from Agricultural Property Stock of the State Treasury. The results were used to analyse and describe the social aspects of the APA’s operations in rural area in Poland. Rural areas require various types of social assistance services. The Agricultural Property Agency has successfully fostered social development in rural areas, and it has the required resources and experience to continue that mission.
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ILIE, Marinela. "SMART FARMING IN CORN CULTURE." In Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/cafee/2019/8/21.
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There is no more mechanized agricultural process that does not benefit from computerized assistance that optimizes working parameters and obtain qualitative indices of lifting, comfort and safety in the process of increased work for the user, low fuel consumption and manpower and low negative impact on the environment. The concept of "Precision agriculture” involves adjusting inputs in the agricultural system (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides), to distribute all where it is needed just as long as it takes. Measurement of differences working parameters through sensors and transducers, analysis of information received through computer systems or specific software and sending orders for modification of other parameters on tractors and machines has created the "Smart farming" system. The advantages of using smart farming are immense in all aspects. The user inserts the working parameters into the computer, monitors the processes and through the actuators execute the necessary settings. Complete and accurate information on the processed surface, fuel consumption, seed, fertilizers, pesticides, or quantities harvested in agricultural harvesting machines are received in real or centralized time. Cultivating cereal like corn can be extremely profitable regardless of the surface, but for that it is essential to observe some particularities of this plant. Romania is one of the largest maize producers in the European Union; in this article is presented all cost and also cost prognosis for smart farming in corn culture.
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Hersh, Benjamin, and Amin Mirkouei. "Life Cycle Assessment of Pyrolysis-Derived Biochar From Organic Wastes and Advanced Feedstocks." In ASME 2019 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2019-97896.
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Abstract Recent interest in reducing stress on the food-energy-water (FEW) nexus requires the use of renewable, organic products that can subsequently address environmental sustainability concerns, such as mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Pyrolysis-derived biochar from organic wastes (e.g., nutrient-rich agricultural wastes and leftovers, forest harvest residues, and cattle manure) and advanced feedstocks (e.g., algae) is capable of addressing ever-increasing global FEW concerns. Biochar water-nutrient holding capacity and carbon sequestration are key attributes for improving organic farming and irrigation management. The major challenge to commercialize biochar production from organic wastes is the conversion process. Pyrolysis process is a cost-effective and successful approach in comparison to other conversion technologies (e.g., gasification) due to low energy requirement and capital cost, as well as high process efficiency and biochar quality. To determine the environmental impacts of the biochar production process, an analysis of the material, energy, and emission flows of a small-scale pyrolysis process is conducted for a real case study, using life cycle assessment method with the assistance of available life cycle inventory databases within OpenLCA software. The results demonstrate that this study is able to enhance sustainability aspects across FEW systems by (a) employing a portable refinery to address upstream challenges (i.e., collection, transportation, and preprocessing) of waste-to-biochar life cycle, (b) recycling domestic forest and agricultural residues (e.g., pine wood), (c) producing organic biochar-derived soil conditioners that can improve organic cropping and FEW systems. Ultimately, we conclude by discussing techno-economic and socio-environmental implications of biochar production from organic wastes and advanced feedstocks.