Smallholder dairy farming is a good solution to these problems, Kawonga says, because it provides year-round income, whereas crop farming employment is seasonal.
Many seniors, even the most successful, are simply happy to be involved with a program that provides year-to-year support for a long time, sometimes a lifetime.
This provides year-round work to many of our staff and demands higher expertise in technical skills (whitewater kayaking and sailing for example).
Martha's Vineyard Regional Transit Authority (VTA) — provides year-round public transit service to the six towns of Martha's Vineyard: Aquinnah, Chilmark, Edgartown, Oak Bluffs, Tisbury and West Tisbury.
This sustainable hi-tech method, a hybrid of traditional trawling and fish farming, ensures smaller fish are released at the end of the season, and provides year-round availability.
The Craftsmen, one of the student group finalists in SAI's Seed For Change Competition, is a small forest enterprise facilitator that creates new value chains, provides year-round employment for forest dwellers, and trains communities in sustainable harvesting practices.
The road, which provides year-round access to tourists, day-trippers, and hunters, traverses what was once sensitive habitat for the herd during the calving and post-calving periods.
The Binh Ba Bay, or outer bay, with Binh Ba Island lying off the tip of Point Cam Linh, offers some protection to ships at anchor, but the 1-mile- (1.6-kilometre) wide strait that opens into the inner bay of Cam Linh provides year-round protection from monsoons and typhoons.
Opportunity's investment in an agricultural processing plant, which enhances the value of poor farmer's crops and provides year-round access to new markets, achieved 30percentt higher yields and an average income increase of 50percentt over last season for our farming clients.
The 3-mile- (5-kilometre) long Bakolori Dam (1975), one of the world's longest, on the Sokoto River provides year-round irrigation in the Sokoto-Rima basin, but the project has become an economic disaster because the soil is becoming increasingly infertile as a result of irrigation and there is less water available downstream from the dam.
