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| Chongtham, Iman Raj; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Denmark; Neergaard, Andreas de; University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Agriculture and Ecology, Denmark; Pillot, Didier; Institut des Régions Chaudes, Agrinatura, Montpellier SupAgro, France. |
| Organic agriculture in Uganda is developing at a fast pace and despite this trend Uganda is still unable to produce enough fresh and dry organic fruits mainly pineapple to meet the exporters demand. This current research investigated the strategies of farmers at production level by assessing the pros and cons of fruit growing, organic agriculture and fruit drying in order to understand the underlying causal factor for the low production of organic dry fruits in a major fruit producing district of Uganda.The study was carried out in two separate and distinctive areas; one which only produces and export fresh organic pineapple and the other which exports dried fruits (mainly pineapple and papaya). About 10% of the farmers in the two study areas were surveyed... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultultural economics; Conventional agriculture; Decision; Dried fruits; Export; Household; Organic agriculture; Coffee husk. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2010082734328 |
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| Azadi, Hossein; Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium; Hosseininia, Gholamhossein; Department of Entrepreneurship Extension & Education, Entrepreneurship Faculty, Tehran University, Iran; Zarafshani, Kiumars; Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran; Heydari, Aligholi; Deputy of Research, Education and Extension, Ministry of Cooperative, Tehran, Iran; Witlox, Frank; Department of Geography, Ghent University, Belgium. |
| This survey study aimed at identifying the factors influencing the success of animal husbandry cooperatives in Southwest Iran. Using a questionnaire, the data were collected from 95 managing directors of the cooperatives who were chosen through a multi-stage stratified random sampling method. This study showed an essential need for a systemic framework to analyze the cooperatives’ success. The results showed that the “Honey Bee”, “Cattle (dairy)”, and “Lamb” cooperatives were the most successful among different kinds of the cooperatives. Also, among individual attributes, “interest”, “technical knowledge”, and “understanding the concept of cooperative”; among economic variables, “income” and “current investment”; and among external factors, “market access”... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Animal Husbandry; Agricultultural economics; Rural economy and farm management agricultural cooperative; Animal husbandry; Success; Southwest Iran. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2010091334568 |
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| Hauser, Michael; BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Gregor Mendel-Straße 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria Tel. (+43-1) 47 654-3766. Fax (+43-1) 47 654-2961; Aigelsperger, Lisa; BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria; Owamani, Amos; Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility Institute of the International Centre for Tropical Agriculture (TSBF-CIAT), c/o Kawanda Agricultural Research Institute, Kampala, Uganda; Delve, Robert J.; Catholic Relief Services, Nairobi, Kenya. |
| Organic agriculture requires farmers with the ability to develop profitable agro-enterprises on their own. By drawing on four years of experiences with the Enabling Rural Innovation approach in Uganda, we outline how smallholder farmers transition to organic agriculture and, at the same time, increase their entrepreneurial skills and competences through learning. In order to document this learning we operationalised the Kirkpatrick learning evaluation model, which subsequently informed the collection of qualitative data in two study sites. Our analysis suggests that the Enabling Rural Innovation approach helps farmers to develop essential capabilities for identifying organic markets and new organic commodities, for testing these organic commodities under... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultultural economics; Organic agriculture; Enabling innovation; Learning; Uganda. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2010082734305 |
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| Baiyegunhi, Lloyd James Segun; Discipline of Agricultural Economics, School of Agricultural, Earth & Environmental Sciences (SAEES) – University of KwaZulu-Natal, Scottsville 3209, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. |
| In a household or nations production system, social capital has been recognized as an input having major implications for project design as well as policy development. Using a structured questionnaire, household level data was obtained from a representative sample of 300 rural households in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal. This study employed the conventional household economic behaviour model under constrained utility maximisation to examine the effect of social capital on the welfare of household, testing the hypothesis that the possession of social capital improves household welfare. The result shows that social capital endowments have a statistically significant positive effect on household welfare, in addition to the some household’s demographic and... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultultural economics; Rural Development social capital; Welfare; Rural households; Economic behaviour; Utility maximization. |
| Ano: 2014 |
URL: http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2013081343356 |
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| Preißel, Sara; University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Institute for Socio-cultural Studies, Witzenhausen, Germany; Reckling, Moritz; University of Kassel, Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Institute for Socio-cultural Studies, Witzenhausen, Germany. |
| The organic agricultural sector of Uganda is among the most developed in Africa in terms of its professional institutional network and high growth rates of number of certified farmers and land area. Smallholder farmers are certified organic through contract production for export companies using a group certification scheme (internal control system - ICS). The ICS is a viable and well-accepted tool to certify small-scale producers in developing countries all over the world. Difficulties in certification are still stated to be among the main constraints for Uganda’s organic sector development. Therefore, this paper reports a qualitative case study comprising 34 expert interviews in two organic fresh-produce export companies in central Uganda,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Agricultultural economics; Social sciences contract farming; Group certification; Internal control systems; Organic agriculture; Organic certification; Qualitative research; Uganda. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://www.jarts.info/index.php/jarts/article/view/2010082734312 |
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