Understanding land use transitions requires analyzing how, when facing qualitative
environmental change, human agents may modify their beliefs, values, and decision rules …

Non-market valuation (NMV) can be effective to understand the value people place on
ecosystem goods and services for which there are no market prices. Over the last 20 years …

This paper analyzes the determinants of farmer adoption of conservation farming practices
using panel data from two rounds of the Rural Incomes and Livelihoods Surveys that were …

Maize evolution under domestication is a process that continues today. Case studies
suggest that Mexican smallholder family farmers, known as campesinos, contribute …

Traditional landraces of maize are cultivated throughout more than one-half of Mexico's
cropland. Efforts to organize in situ conservation of this important genetic resource have …

This paper examines how agricultural modernization and tradition interact among small-
scale commercially-oriented maize farmers by studying shifts in area and number of farmers …

Climate change will affect agricultural production by subsistence farms in crop centers of
origin, where landraces are conserved in situ. Various strategies for adaptation to climate …

Zai is a conventional soil rehabilitation management practice where organic matter is buried
in a small pit to help restore fertility and conserve water in the soil. However, adoption of this …

Biological diversity of agriculture consists of several analytic levels and spatial management
scales that are subject to complex interactions with global change. The complexity of …

African agriculture is often dominated by smallholder farms composed of multiple plots. In
policy circles it is often assumed that fragmentation coupled with small farm size is an …