In this paper, the transformation of the Fertöd State Farm (W-Hungary) is presented. During the privatisation process the state farm was converted into a private venture, two thirds of the total land area was sold to smallholders who lease the land
further to Austrian farmers. After presentation of the ownership change, the transformation of the production system is analysed. - (ZK)
Gender differentials in resources ownership and crop productivity of smallholder farmers in Africa : a case study.
The case study uses farm management survey data on smallholder farmers from eight villages in Botswana. The findings show that there are no significant differences in crop productivity between male farmers and their female counterparts, neither
-owned estates had to be dissolved within a short period of time. 26 000 individual farms and 3 000 partnerships have been established. The successors of collective and state farms cultivate still on average more than 1 000 ha farmland. The individual
farm enterprises cultivate about 49 ha, this is twice the size of corresponding farms in West Germany. The radical transformation process was accompanied by a massive reduction of employment to only one sixth of the initial employment figure. Today
, medium-sized farms in the new Länder are even more profitable than their counterparts in the West. - (HPB)
Usable science : an assessment of long-term seasonal forecasts amongst farmers in the rural areas of South Africa
The science of long-term climate seasonal forecasts is well developed. While much is done to produce forecasts little has been done to assess their uptake and value particularly for rural farmers in South Africa. A study of North West Province
indicated that the constraints placed on developing farmers reduced their usage of forecasts. Suggestions to improve the situation are offered. - (AJC)
Protecting the snow leopard and enhancing farmers' livelihoods : a pilot insurance scheme in Baltistan
Discussion of a pilot insurance plan to save the snow leopard in Balistan, a district in the Pakistani-controlled sector of Jammu and Kashmir State, while protecting farmers from predatory losses to their livestock, tipically goats. Each farmer pays
Why Russian peasants remain in collective farms : a household perspective on agricultural restructuring
Agricultural production ; Agriculture ; Collective farming ; Commercial agriculture ; Enquiry ; Estate farm ; European part of Russia ; Oblast ; Saint Petersburg ; Saratov ; Typology
Andean forests and farming systems in part of the Eastern Cordillera (Columbia)
Andes ; Biodiversity ; Colombia ; Ecosystem ; Farming system ; Forest ; Impact study ; Landscape ecology ; Mountain ; Regional analysis ; Tropical zone
. Figures are given on how much of original forests remain, on forest types, and also on the many different farming systems. AA. found the original land cover of the sub-Andean dry forests had been almost completely replaced by shrublands, pastures, crops
Fishing and farming at Lake Chad : responses to lake-level fluctuations
Agricultural calender ; Chad Lake ; Farming system ; Fishing ; Impact ; Irrigation ; Lacustrine basin ; Lake ; Lake level ; Lake shore ; Nigeria ; Remote sensing ; Rural community ; Rural development
Agrarian structure ; Agriculture ; Central Europe ; Eastern Europe ; Europe ; Farm ; Polarization ; Rural area
of agricultural production, while economic durability and organizational patterns are not yet ultimately decided. At present the process of polarization of the farm structure is in progress : on the one hand the formation of small farms continues, on the other
à la location des terres et d'autres actifs. La recherche est fondée sur l'analyse de données concernant la réforme et collectées en mai 2000, ainsi que sur une enquête auprès de 16 entreprises agricoles dans les oblasts de Kyiv, Sumy et Chernihiv.
A boon for mountain populations : large cardamom farming in the Sikkim Himalaya
). This perennial cash crop is grown beneath various shade trees on marginal lands. Many new large cardamom plantations are on terraced fields previously used for cultivation of paddy and other crops. Two problems are viral susceptibility (as most farmers propagate
Gully erosion poses a problem for South African peasant farmers. Land that is already affected by and/or susceptible to this form of erosion is therefore not suitable for transfer to such communities under the Land Reform Programme. Unsuitable land
types are identified in the Mfolosi catchment and special monitoring and evaluation proposed if the lands are transfered to peasant farmers. - (AJC)