Juniper Publishers Agricultural Research Journal

  Abstract The sustainable Development Goals proposed by United Nations are increasingly becoming integrated in socioeconomic and environmental projects. Eco-challenges have also been widely studied and documented. Several researchers have well defined and documented what is sustainable development and how can be it achieved. However, fewer studies have investigated farmers and herdsmen’ preferences and awareness for United Nations Sustainable goals and eco-challenge. Based on Previous studies reported by United Nations Development Agency, seventeen sustainable development goals and nine eco-challenges were included in this study. In this study, the authors use the balanced incomplete block design to collect data from 136 respondents. For each question, respondents were asked to select their best and worst sustainable development goals, while they were asked to select their three best and their three worst eco-challenges. The conditional logit model and the count-based methods were...

  Abstract The objective of this review on Smallholder farmers perceptions and adaptation strategies in case Ethiopia. Smallholder households obtain livelihoods through the rural labour market, self-employment in rural non-farm economy, migration and rain-fed agriculture. Agriculture is the major source of rural livelihoods. Climate refers to the average weather and represents the state of the climate system over a given time period. Due to natural variability and human interventions, there is increase in the emission of the greenhouse gases reflecting variation of the mean state of weather variables including temperature, precipitation and wind. Greenhouse gases (GHGs) are more important for their ability to trap heat from the sun and create atmosphere that supports the life on Earth. However increasing levels of these gases is the cause of global temperatures, resulting in the most severe ecological crisis that earth has witnessed in the whole of human history. Adaptation is adju...

  Abstract The tourism industry is one of the sectors that would be greatly affected by COVID-19 pandemic. Data for the review was generated from desk review of secondary materials, online blogs and interview through social media chat. Findings of the review reveal that the outbreak of pandemic disease led to rapid shutdowns in cities and states across the country, which greatly affected the hospitality industry. This pandemic showed the rapid negative impact on the country tourism and hotel industry. The findings of the review reveal that COVID-19 has increased cancellations of hotels and travel bookings resulted in revenue loss and unemployment situations, resulting loss of substantial revenue to the government and increasing incidence of poverty among others. The review recommends that provision of alternative service and diversification of service and product and compensation to business operators in the sector to return back to normal operations. Read more about this article:...