4. Results 4.1. Contribution of PPP to Sustainable NRM in Game Management Areas The PPP’s private sector comprises the director, regional extension coordinator, senior extension officers, extension officers (chiefdom level) and chiefdom area managers. They are responsible for the business aspect of the PPP model in Lupande GMA. On the public side are registered households organised in various producer groups around various product lines that include crop farming, carpentry, gardening, and honey and livestock production. There are no restrictions for any individual belonging to one producer group to cross and engage in activities of a different group. For instance, a crop producer can simultaneously engage in honey production either at household level or belong to a producer group producing honey. Membership to any producer group is by choice. However, crop farming particularly that of maize is compulsory to comply with the PPP’s objective to achieve food security and reduce hunger in their operational areas. Therefore, crop farming producer groups overseen by respective lead farmers are relatively more active in any given year. Private actor efforts begin with conducting sensitization programmes focusing on the importance of conservating natural resource and benefits of conservation farming (CF) to all public actors at producer group level. PPP registered farmers (public actors) are encouraged to practice CF practices including minimum tillage, pot holing-deeper
Modern day farming has transformed from the farming process of last century. Instead of farmers producing for their families, farmers are now similar to input/output managers supplying massive manufacturers that feed the country.
The National Agro-Food policy has incorporated strategies that are in line with the nutritional aspects of the food system. The programs implemented under the policy include increased food production through optimization and sustainable land, development and upgrading agriculture infrastructure and increase the quality and safety of food by expanding the compliance of standard. Efforts have also been taken to strengthen human capital and to ensure sufficient skill labor force in the agricultural sector. This includes the use of modern technology and mechanization to reduce the dependency of manpower. The government also provides sector-based incentives to encourage the private sector to invest in the agriculture and agro-based industry.
Times have changed, and so has the family, the community and our environment. And these changes have impacted our lives and earth immeasurably. This is where the factor greed comes in to play, the need for more. This need for more called for extensive measures, measures like fertilizers, pesticides and equipment to work the ground and harvest the crops became necessity. Agriculture became a booming business that did not and still does not promote the well-being of the employee nor the individual let alone the family unit and community. Since 1950 an average farm size has doubled, but the number of laborers decreased substantially and the number of small local farmers has been cut in half. Farmers have been forced to become more efficient and there 's been a reliance on greater chemicals and technology, which has become very extensive and expensive. Sadly, what has been short term expansion has become a long-term threat (Trautmann, 2012). This greed driven increase has led to subtle damaging ramifications that most people are ignorant to. Their needs are being met as quality is being forsaken. Our environment is being squandered. Selfishness abounds.
"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words, but of deeds." These famous words from "The FFA Creed" by E.M. Tiffany outline the basic beliefs of FFA members and agriculturists around the world. But these values, although crucial to the sustaining of our world's ever-increasing population, are growing more and more detached from the people not involved in agriculture. Although food and fiber production has increased in recent years, providing more bushels per acre and more meat per head of cattle, the agriculture industry has come under fire due to an overwhelming majority of people being totally disconnected from the agriculture industry. Today, we'll examine the primary causes of this disconnect, the negative effects on agriculture and our society as a whole that results from it, and how you can help solve this ever-growing problem.
Different groups are being affected such as the farmers, the people who cannot afford organic food, and the industrial farm companies. The farmers are affected by the industrial farms because they are the competition. The farmers’ fruits and vegetables are expensive comparing to the industrial farms companies. The people are affected chemicals sprayed to the produce causes health problems on long run such as cancer and Alzheimer’s. Furthermore, the industrial farms companies are affected because people are teaching the communities how industrial farms grow their
I am the third generation small scale farmer and have seen how sustainable small scale farming can be while supporting the local population with natural healthy food. For a large scale industrial farm to enter into this region, means trouble for me based on my personal attitudes and values toward a CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation). When a CAFO enters an area there will be a lot more pollution and damage to the air, water, and local land. I do not want to have a consistent smell of manure on my property, or manure run off in the local creeks and streams, or having consistent trucks using our local road ways. My local property means a lot to me since I have grown up on the land since a kid. I hike, explore, and camp on the land so to
This video and article by Rose Marcario, the Chief Executive of Patagonia Inc., explains the effect that changing our farming practices could potentially have on our environment and our ability to live sustainably; if we switch from fossil fuel intensive farming to organic and low-till practices that put carbon back in the ground, we can improve soil, grow more nutritious food, and reverse the effects of climate
Why do we eat? We eat to get energy. Food is essential for our well being to foster growth and development. A healthy living is said to start from what you eat and drink. Farming is an enormous task and a farmer harnesses a lot of resources to bring this to limelight. Acquiring acres of land to farm requires a lot of financial responsibilities from the farmer. In many circumstances a lot of people who are willing to be a farmer freak out of the hassles due to inability to have access to fIn the farming industry a lot of government policies are not to be in support of the small scale farmers. Generally, the large scale industrial farmer explores different unethical conducts to carry out their daily activities in the food production mechanism. The government agencies should eliminate the threat placed on the small-scale farmer to enable a fast-growing economics where people can make informed choices on what they want to eat and drink to prevent illness and health issues such as obesity and heart diseases.
Agriculture Mitigation actions we can take are rethinking the way agriculture is practiced. Finding ways to reduce reliance on chemical and synthetic fertilizers. Creating incentives to promote the use of renewable energy through modern Ag systems. The concern of climate change and the need to shift to more sustainable system has raised to long standing practices, and conservation agriculture. Another form of mitigation is lowering rates of agriculture expansion. Reduction and more efficient use of nitrogenous
Both Eastern United States and Northern Africa were considered independent agricultural hearths. In the Eastern United States commercial farming is practiced, while in Northern Africa is more subsistence farming. The availability of technology is greater in the US than in Africa, therefore the US has access to machinery. The US will practice commercial farming because there are other ways to make a living and people are not dependent on agriculture as their only means of survival. However, in Northern Africa, access to other ways of living is limited and they must rely on agriculture to sustain them. In Northern Africa, they practice pastoral nomadism or pastoralism. This deals with herding and breeding animals in order to produce food.
farmers need to create more tillable space, one option has been for them to decrease the
Farmers have enrolled more than 31 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program to help maintain nature for the local wildlife. Can you believe that? More than half of America’s farmers purposely provide shelter for the wildlife; deer, moose, fowl, and other species have shown major population increases in the last decade alone. Not only do farmers help provide homes for wild animals, but they also offer alternative energy. For instance, corn, soybeans, and other crops provide a wide range of options. These are just a few of the great things that farmers do for America.
The world of commercial farming is like a bureaucracy, the individual farms in the United States are being controlled by organizations and industries that provide products for profitability. The escalation of the US agriculture has been stimulated by a partnership of farming industry within multinational corporations and the bureaucrats within the agricultural sector. Their ambitions, interests, and goals have shaped the course of the agricultural development. Furthermore, it has been the strategies of industrialists, researchers, and bureaucrats that have directed the development and mechanization of the farms (Casey et al., 2015). They have also promoted the supposed efficacy at the cost of public, actual efficiency, and amount of the cost of the quality
As Bartels, Furman, and Diehl (2012) note, any process to engage farmer stakeholders farmer stakeholder engagement process around the issue of climate change that fails to systematically understand and incorporate individuals’ their values, beliefs, identities, goals, and social networks may fail to bring about the desired adaptive (and/or mitigative?) responses (2012). By understanding what U.S. agricultural stakeholders believe about climate change – including its impacts and risks to operations, and potential adaptation and mitigation strategies—researchers, education specialists and policy makers can design more effective research studies, strategies, programs to transform adaptation and mitigation action in the United States. In addition, climate change adaptation and mitigation in agriculture needs to be understood within the context of agriculturale impacts at the local, regional, and national level.
Due to the effects of urbanization and industry, the amount of land available for agriculture is rapidly reducing. Of the total land area of 792,607 hectares for Negros Occidental (the Philippines) the Alienable and Disposable (A & D) areas covers 68.17 percent 0r 540,350.13 hectares. Classified Forest Land occupies 31.83 percent ( 252,256.53 hectares). Cropland makes up most of which is considered Alienable and Disposable. This includes the residential, commercial and institutional areas as well as agricultural lands. Fish ponds are also found in this area occupying an area of 9,333.14 hectares. Zoning and land use plans have been put into place to regulate the development of communities ensuring that the distribution of land is properly allocated so that it is not in incompatible use. Despite these measures, many farmers are very poor. The average size of an individual farm in the Philippines is 1.5. hectares. Small farms can only produce enough for subsistence purposes.