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"Assessing the Willingness-to-Pay for use of piped water service of households in Gia Lam District, Hanoi City, Vietnam"
Currently, 13 out of the 22 communes of Gia Lam District, representing 71 percent of the district’s population, have no access to piped water services. This study analyzed the factors affecting households’ decision to connect to piped... Read more.MS in Agricultural Economics (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Auto-ecology and utilization of Zingiber barbatum Wall, in Mt. Popa, Central Myanmar"
Auto-ecology and utilization of Zingiber barbatum Wall. (Z. barbatum), native to Myanmar, was studied in site under different forest types of Mt. Popa, 1,518 m high, located at the arid region of Central Myanmar. The climatic and edaphic factors in... Read more.MS in Botany (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Banana farmers' perceptions and behaviors towards sustainable agriculture in the Vietnam uplands"
This study investigated upland banana farmers’ sustainable agriculture perceptions and behaviors and its determinants, as well as analyzed costs and profits of banana production, based on a case study in Quang Tri Province of Vietnam from... Read more.MS in Sustainable Agriculture (Kasetsart University)"Bioefficacy evaluation of salicylic acid, and radiation-modified carrageenan and chitosan for inducing tomato leaf curl resistance"
Tomato leaf curl is a major virus disease problem in tomato production. This study was conducted to evaluate the bioefficacy of three chemicals—namely, salicylic acid (SA), and radiation-modified carrageenan and chitosan as inducer of... Read more.MS in Plant Pathology (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Cassava Marketing in Pailin Province, Cambodia, 2014"
This study was conducted at the farm and the intermediary market levels to examine the efficiency of cassava marketing system in Pailin Province, Cambodia. A total of 120 cassava farmers and 20 traders were randomly selected for the study. The... Read more.MS in Agricultural Economics (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Communication pattern on the diffusion of transgenic potato seed at Garut and Pangalengan"
Resilience and self-sufficiency are very important global concerns at this time. The advent of biotechnology as one of alternative technologies for increasing agriculture production has been successful in developing transgenic potato seed resistant... Read more.MS in Communication of Rural and Agricultural Development (Bogor Agricultural University)"Community Enterprise Development as a Strategy towards Self-reliance among farmers in Surin Province, Thailand"
This study was conducted to examine the association between the independent variables: sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents, capacity building attendance, frequency of receiving communication method, and adequacy rating of the kinds of... Read more.MS in Extension Education (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Community participation in rice security programs in Cailaco and Maliana sub- districts, Timor-Leste"
The study was conducted among the farmer groups who worked in the rice program in Maliana and Cailaco Sub-districts, Timor-Leste—namely, Groupu Purugua, Joventude Hadomi Agricultura, Grupo SRI, Holsa, Odomau, Maliana Hare Satu (1), and... Read more.MS in Community Development (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Comparison of Indigenous Knowledge and Scientific Knowledge on Land use Selection of Ikalahan Farmers in Imugan, Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya"
This study was conducted in the Imugan Watershed of Sta. Fe, Nueva Vizcaya to verify the application of indigenous knowledge of Imugan farmers in land use selection. The results were further compared with the scientific knowledge on land use... Read more.MS in Forestry (Forest Resources Management) (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Diversity, physiological and morphological attributes of indigenous tropical tree species for rehabilitation, climate change adaptation and mitigation of Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape"
Due to anthropogenic actions (shifting cultivation, small-scale mining, timber-cutting and poaching) and forest fires, almost half of the land area of the Upper Marikina River Basin Protected Landscape in Rizal province has been degraded, ushering... Read more.PhD in Forestry (Forest Biological Sciences) (University of the Philippines Los Baños)