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ENCYCLOPEDIA

OF WORLD PROBLEMS

AND HUMAN POTENTIAL

  2. World problems
  3. Insufficient returns from farming

Insufficient returns from farming

  • Economic difficulties of farmers
  • Questioned farm profitability
  • Poor-risk commercial farming
  • Farms overburdened by debt
  • Decreasing profit margin from fishing
  • Unprofitable fish marketing
  • Increasingly narrow profit margin for primary producers

Incidence

According to a 1995 report, fish catch declines in specific fishing grounds threatened the livelihoods of as many as 200 million people who depended on fish as a source of income.

Broader

Unproductive subsistence agriculture
Excellent
Discouraging conditions for small business
Presentable
Disincentives against farming
Unpresentable

Narrower

Insufficient cash crops
Unpresentable
Delayed profits
Unpresentable

Aggravates

Rural unemployment
Presentable
Risk of capital investment
Presentable
Personal debt
Presentable
Agricultural fraud
Presentable
Inadequate agricultural capital
Yet to rate

Aggravated by

Unsustainable exploitation of fish resources
Excellent
Agricultural mismanagement
Excellent
Uneconomical small farms
Presentable
Undue control of prices by intermediaries
Presentable
Unavailability of farming land
Presentable
Middleman control of rural marketing
Presentable
Inappropriate cash crop policy
Presentable
Inadequate management skills in rural communities
Presentable
Cultural traditions blocking business profit
Presentable
Agricultural risks
Presentable
Loss of fish nurseries
Unpresentable
Underdevelopment of fishing industry
Yet to rate
Prohibitive costs of farming
Yet to rate
Limited local markets for goods and services
Yet to rate

Related

Lack of rural industrialization
Presentable
Counterproductive eco-labelling
Yet to rate

Strategy

Increasing food production to reduce rural poverty
Yet to rate

SDG

Sustainable Development Goal #2: Zero HungerSustainable Development Goal #8: Decent Work and Economic GrowthSustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and ProductionSustainable Development Goal #14: Life Below Water

Metadata

Database
World problems
Type
(D) Detailed problems
Biological classification
N/A
Subject
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Farming
  • Agriculture, fisheries » Fisheries
  • Commerce » Commerce
  • Commerce » Credit
  • Commerce » Finance
  • Commerce » Market
  • Economics » Economic
  • Fish, reptiles » Fish
  • Industry » Production
  • Societal problems » Hazards
    • Content quality
    Unpresentable
     Unpresentable
    Language
    English
    1A4N
    G7947
    DOCID
    11779470
    D7NID
    141134
    Last update
    Oct 4, 2020