It has led to calls for supermarkets to give a fair deal to British farmers, an interest in food miles, the development of farmers' markets and independent food companies.
The key to the success has been the development of farmers' co-operatives, which have allowed the farmers to cut out the middlemen who took a large chunk of the profits.
An important issue for the scaling up of agroecology approaches is the development of farmer-to-farmer networks, of institutional articulation and the identification of niche markets compatible with the characteristics of agroecological products (Altieri et al., 2001).
These results may also clarify which scenario of backcrossing in farmer fields led to the development of the farmer hybrids.
Model implementation experiments have revealed that GAMEDE is also a useful tool to support discussions and to generate knowledge exchange among various stakeholders who play an important role in the development of farm sustainability: farmers, extension agents and researchers.
In this paper we present the detailed proof of concept study that led to the development of a farmer operated not invasive pregnancy detection device.
After forest clearing from the 1940s to 1970s/1980s, which led to the development of agroforests, farmers are now clearing the surviving forests and agroforests and replacing them with full sun farms, either of cocoa or rubber and oil palm, and possibly teak.
This is expected to be achieved through actions that improve business development skills of farmers, increase cacao productivity, enhance natural resources management, conserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions associated with smallholder cacao farming systems.
More effort has been spent on soil management and on the development and testing of farmer oriented measurements than on system assessments.
This article reports on the design and development of the Digital Farmer Field School (DFFS).
