Farming - Matches

The commonly touted solution to achieve food security has always been articulated as achieving self-sufficiency in rice. Since the 1960s, various gove..

Several elicitation techniques were employed to gauge the attitudes to risk of smallholder high-value crop farmers in the southern Philippines. Result..

This Policy Note summarizes a study by Roehlano Briones titled "Small farmers in high-value chains: Binding or relaxing constraints to inclusive growt..

Linking small farmers to modern markets, whether domestically or for export, increasingly entails participation in modern supply chains coordinated by..

This Note looks into the regional occurrence of typhoons, floods, and droughts in the Philippines and the value of the damages that they cause on rice..

Rainfall variability greatly influences corn production. Thus, a skillful forecast is potentially of value to the farmers because it could help them m..

Although our ability to predict climate conditions has improved significantly, farmers` use of climate information and forecasts in farming decisions ..

Seasonal climate forecast (SCF) is one of the tools that could help farmers and decisionmakers better prepare for seasonal variability. However, a clo..

Is there some truth to the common assumption that upland farmers are insulated from and not directly affected by most economic policies? The authors n..

Do the most promising policies to promote sustainable upland farming originate at the local or national level? Will coordination of local and national..

Upland farmers have long been cast as key actors of deforestation, but in the wake of timber scarcity brought on by deforestation and logging restrict..