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Limited Resource Farmers are most likely of all targeted farmers to face liquidity constraints [1] Limited Resource Farmers are less likely to adopt conservation strategies related to water quality, perhaps due to financial constraints, benefits of adopting alternative conservation practices, or the smaller nature of their farms.
Challenges to Christmas tree farms span from coast to coast. Drought has wilted crops in Oregon, while wind, flood and landslides caused by September’s Hurricane Helene dented North Carolina’s ...
Under the climate change scenario of highest emissions and greatest warming, SSP5-8.5, "cattle,sheep, goats, pigs and poultry in the low latitudes will face 72–136 additional days per year of extreme stress from high heat and humidity". [39]: 717
According to FAO and IFAD, family farmers, with adequate support, have a unique capacity to "redress the failure of a world food system that, while producing enough food for all, still wastes one-third of the food produced, fails to reduce hunger, and the different forms of malnutrition, and even generates social inequalities." [6]
U.S. farmers want something from President-elect Donald Trump that his trade policies mean he is unlikely to deliver: increased access to the market of top soy-importer China. Trump's Republican ...
Spanish farmers on Friday blocked streets across the country in a fourth day of protests and announced plans to gather in Madrid as they railed against the EU's environmental rules and what they ...
To move toward sustainable agriculture, farmers are encouraged to utilize green pesticides, which cause less harm to both human health and habitats, but would entail a higher production cost. [98] Climate change is also a rapidly growing barrier, one that farmers have little control over, which can be seen through place-based barriers. [99]
An example of the breadth and types of agriculture policy concerns can be found in the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics article "Agricultural Economies of Australia and New Zealand" which says that the major challenges and issues faced by their industrial agriculture industry are: marketing challenges and consumer tastes