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 ...

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 ...

It's very much looking like the world is going to miss its climate target. And now experts say as the planet gets warmer and warmer, we're going to see worse and worse heat waves. Over the last couple ...

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 ...