Climate-smart agriculture on small-scale farms: A systematic literature review

T Mizik - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Overpopulation and climate change are among the greatest challenges the world faces.
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) provides an adequate answer by aiming for higher …

Climate change awareness, perceived impacts, and adaptation from farmers' experience and behavior: a triple-loop review

S Ricart, C Gandolfi, A Castelletti - Regional Environmental Change, 2023 - Springer
Individuals and communities socially construct risk, and societies with greater risk
perception may be more apt to mobilize or adapt to emergent threats like climate change …

Technical efficiency and technological gaps of rice production in Anambra State, Nigeria

CA Obianefo, JN Ng'ombe, A Mzyece, B Masasi… - Agriculture, 2021 - mdpi.com
The traditional approach to modeling productive efficiency assumes that technology is
constant across the sample. However, farms in different regions may face different …

Does crop diversification involve a trade-off between technical efficiency and income stability for rural farmers? Evidence from Zambia

A Mzyece, JN Ng'ombe - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
Crop diversification is a climate-smart agricultural technique which helps to improve
resilience for farmers in the face of volatile weather due to climate change. Previous …

Linking climate change awareness, climate change perceptions and subsequent adaptation options among farmers

G Mustafa, BA Alotaibi, RK Nayak - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Several studies have reported farmers' perceptions of climate change, but there is
inadequate knowledge available on the farm households' climate change awareness (CCA) …

Case studies on impacts of climate change on smallholder livestock production in Egypt and Spain

NM Hashem, P Martinez-Ros, A Gonzalez-Bulnes… - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change is one of the hot topics of this decade and seriously affects all economic
production sectors including the livestock farming sector. In many scenarios, the …

Crop diversification improves technical efficiency and reduces income variability in Northern Ghana

A Mzyece, JN Ng'ombe - Journal of Agriculture and Food Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Crop diversification has been shown to help mitigate climate change effects for farmers.
While previous research shows that crop diversification may increase or decrease technical …

Impacts of interlocked contractual arrangements on dairy farmers' welfare in Zambia: a robust Bayesian instrumental variable analysis

RN Kiwanuka-Lubinda, JN Ng'ombe, C Machethe - Agrekon, 2021 - journals.co.za
While contract farming and interlocked contractual arrangements (ICAs) are generally
perceived to resolve persistent market failures and improve smallholder farmers' welfare in …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-time scale electric vehicle charging load forecasting considering constant current charging and parallel computing

H Bian, Z Guo, C Zhou, S Peng - Energy Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
At present, the concept of ecological civilization has been widely recognized by the whole
world, and a series of policies that guarantees the evolution of the electric vehicle (EV) …

On the challenges faced by female members of agricultural cooperatives in southeast Nigeria

CA Obianefo, OO Osuafor… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2021 - academicjournals.org
This study uses structural equation modelling (SEM) and path diagram techniques to
examine challenges faced by women in the agricultural sector cooperatives in Southeast …