Sampling for interviews with farming communities
Communication Strategies for Building Climate-Smart Farming Communities
... Farmer interviews and baseline surveys conducted before projects are initiated provide valuable infor- mation on what new livelihoods are best suited for the ...
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An Appraisal of Quality Basic Education in Ashanti Farming Communities of Ghana
... rural communities in the Sekyere East ...formal interviews of three headmasters, four primary teachers, 10 JHS teachers, nine JHS students, and two ...group interviews and polls to gain quantitative ...
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Ecological services of agroforestry systems in selected upland farming communities in the Philippines
... surveys, interviews and focus group discussion (FGD) Transect walks were done to identify the vegetation and other land uses, including the type of agroforestry systems being practiced at various elevations of the ...
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Livelihood Activities and the Role of Livestock in Smallholder Farming Communities of Southern Zambia
... In-Depth Interviews During the community mapping and after all the households in the community had been identified, a very short questionnaire or listing form was administered to each of the identified ...the ...
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Understanding gender dimensions of agriculture and climate change in smallholder farming communities
... random sampling using a list of all households in the ...actively farming in the village, the list was filtered first to remove those households before the remaining were used for random ...
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Migration and Agricultural Production: Analysis of Farming Communities of Lamjung District of Nepal
... 123 household from Madhya Nepal Municipality of Lamjung District was selected to study socioeconomic trend of the remittance-receiving households and the effect of international labor migration in agricultural activities ...
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Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean
... 442 443 Author contributions 444 C.D.S., R.E.G. and M.R.-S. contributed equally to this work. C.D.S., R.E.G., M.R.-S., O.E.C., J.-D.V. 445 and R.P.E. planned the project and wrote the paper. R.E.G. performed the ...
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Beekeeping adoption: A case study of three smallholder farming communities in Baringo County, Kenya
... smallholder farming com- munities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 90 informants in these communities, including 41 new beekeepers, 21 non-adopters, 13 group leaders, 10 village elders ...
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Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Pest Management in Rice Farming Communities of southeastern Luzon, Philippines
... Personal interviews using interview schedule and focus group discussions were carried out to identify the existing indigenous pest control practices in the ...
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Sampling and Sampling Distributions
... cluster sampling and interviews the homeowners of, say, three randomly selected clusters, there is a good chance that no low-income homeowners will be ...
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Organic farming and generalist predator communities
... four farming systems on soil processes and biota, including soil chemistry, microorganisms, soil fauna and aboveground fauna of winter wheat fields in a long-term agricultural experiment (DOK trial, Switzerland; ...
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Family Farming – Examples for Rural Communities Development
... family farming is a subject of great importance for sustainable development of rural communities and promotion of healthy ...family farming is a means of organizing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, ...
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Assessing the Farming Methods of Local Communities in Nan Province
... integrated farming the priority of their ...integrated farming practices and the process of transition inevitably starts with the ...integrated farming was not easy to start or ...integrated ...
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Impact of Micro Credit on Rural Farming Activities: The Case of Farming Communities Within Sunyani Area
... It has been the vision of well-meaning governments to ensure the development of rural areas and better the lots of rural dwellers. Ghana, as an agrarian economy has significant proportions of its dwellers in the rural ...
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Soil microbial communities and dehydrogenase activity depending on farming systems
... M. Järvan, L. Edesi, A. Adamson, T. Võsa Department of Agrotechnology, Estonian Crop Research Institute, Saku, Estonia ABSTRACT The aim of study was to compare the effect of farming methods on soil microbial ...
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Social-ecological resilience of mangrove-shrimp farming communities in Thailand
... technical-ecological challenges faced by shrimp farmers. Attention should be given to ascertain the type of livelihood support needed and to better engage farmers in training and communication to increase social ...
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Suicide and accidental death in Australia's rural farming communities: a review of the literature
... Intense seasonal work patterns and a tendency towards high- risk behavior combine in rural areas 2 , particularly for farmers 13,37 . With this comes a belief in the inevitability of farm injuries 38 . International ...
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Spatial variability of epifaunal communities in the North Sea in relation to sampling effort
... Beam trawl sampling Epifauna was sampled with a standardized 2 m beam trawl made of galvanized steel with a chain matt attached. The beam trawl was W tted with a 20-mm net and a cod end of 4 mm mesh size. A ...
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Random Sampling Process Leads to Overestimation of β Diversity of Microbial Communities
... general sampling theory, this study provides ex- plicit evidences of random sampling processes as the main factor causing high percentages of technical variations and develops a framework for predicting ...
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Dynamic effects of ground-layer plant communities on beetles in a fragmented farming landscape
... “Beetle sampling” section to mention this caveat: “We recognize that data from pitfall traps represent a compound measure of abundance, surface activity and species trappability, which may be habitat-dependent ...
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