This document begins with a description of how farmers’ seed systems and formal systems interact, then discusses some of the challenges facing farmers’ seed systems including climate...
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Climate change has been a significant threat to sustainable agriculture impacting trade and food security. This research investigates the impacts of climate change on agricultural trade and food...
Highlights: Sustainable Development Goal 2.1: Undernourishment and Food Insecurity The prevalence of undernourishment in the Asia and the Pacific region decreased to 8.4 percent in 2022 from 8.8 percent of the previous...
Worldwide, extension and advisory service (EAS) systems have undergone reforms since the 1990s. However, the reforms of the last two decades in many countries have largely failed...
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Fertilizer was the most important factor in maize production.
Fertilizer was found to be the cause for decrease in pH.
No-tillage had a positive effect...
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COVID-19 pandemic has had differentiated impacts for distinct types of farming systems.
Small and medium scale entrepreneurial systems were the farming systems...
Succession is essential for the existence and development of family farms and rural areas; however, the generalized aging of farmers is occurring worldwide. The main objective of this research is to analyse the motivations that determine...
Achieving a world with Zero Hunger (SDG 2) unites the mandates of the three United Nations (UN) Rome-based agencies, collectively known as the RBAs: the Food and Agriculture Organization...
A Double Burden: The effects of food price increases and currency depreciations on food import bills
The price of food has increased everywhere, reaching historic levels in 2022. This is a challenge for food security globally, but particularly for net food-importing developing countries. And unlike in previous...
This factsheet presents recent data on the agricultural research system of Costa Rica, primarily focusing on key financial, human resource, institutional, and output indicators, while also...