Smallholder farming systems in Asia

Devendra, C.; Thomas, Dean T.

doi:10.1016/s0308-521x(01)00033-6

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“…Although based on crop production, integrated crop-animal farming is a backbone of smallscale Asian agriculture (Devendra and Thomas 2002b). Integrating animal component to crop is supportive for agrobiodiversity, food diversity and land resource management that strengthens the resilience of agroecosystem in changing climate.…”

Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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Sustainable food production is one of the major challenges of the twenty-first century in the era of global environmental problems such as climate change, increasing population and natural resource degradation including soil degradation and biodiversity loss. Climate change is among the greatest threats to agricultural systems. Green Revolution though multiplied agricultural production several folds but at the huge environmental cost including climate change. It jeopardized the ecological integrity of agroecosystems by intensive use of fossil fuels, natural resources, agrochemicals and machinery. Moreover, it threatened the age-old traditional agricultural practices. Agriculture is one of the largest sectors that sustain livelihood to maximum number of people and contribute to climate change. Therefore, a climate-smart approach to sustainable food production is the need of hour. Traditional agriculture is getting increased attention worldwide in context of sustainable food production in changing climate. The present article advocates traditional agriculture as a climate-smart approach for the sustainable food production and also deliberates the correlation between climate change and agriculture.

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Section: Integrated Crop-animal Farmingmentioning

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Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Singh

2017

Energ. Ecol. Environ.

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“…About 80% of the world's farmed lands are rainfed and this ratio rises up to 88% in mainland Southeast Asia (Devendra and Thomas 2002). These systems are highly sensitive to climate variability, which limits agricultural production.…”

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“…The contribution of agriculture to total GDP varies ( Figure 1) and is declining over time, but in all countries agriculture accounts for more than 50% of employment. Devendra and Thomas (2002) estimated that rainfed areas accounted for between 70% and 95% of total arable land between 1997 and 2000. The proportion of irrigated agriculture in the GMS is generally increasing over time (Figure 1.2), but is still low in comparison with world standards.…”

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Managing water in rainfed agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion

Johnston¹,

Hoanh²,

Lacombe³

et al. 2012

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“…Wide variety of animal products produced through livestock and poultry will increase the possibility of practicing local economic activities to sell products for local markets (Vasey, 1985;Ali, 2005;Jannolti et al, 2009). Despite the fact that livestock and poultry contributes to family, the returns of both activities differs widely due to wide prices of products (Marsh, 1998;Danoesastro, 1980;Devendra & Thomas, 2002). Moreover, households use the manure produced of animal activities as fertilizer for sell or local use.…”

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The Economics of Animal Production of Household Garden

Al-Dala’een¹

2018

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This research concerns about the contribution of household garden animal production economics in improving household life conditions. The objective of this research is to investigate the inputs, outputs and processing economics of animal production in households' gardens. Questionnaire used for data collection. The questionnaire included four major parts including the characteristics of household people, the inputs, outputs and processing activities of household animal breeding. The population divided into six strata according to household income. A random sample selected of each stratum. The results showed that the household animal breeding species dependent on garden size. In large gardens, the livestock activities dominated. The income gained of animal activities included a wide range of products for poultry and livestock.

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Smallholder farming systems in Asia

Cited by 114 publications

References 2 publications

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Traditional agriculture: a climate-smart approach for sustainable food production

Managing water in rainfed agriculture in the Greater Mekong Subregion

The Economics of Animal Production of Household Garden

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