IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/iuj/wpaper/ems_2025_02.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Sustainable Entrepreneurial Mindsets and Process: A Case Study of Smallholder Farms in Eswatini

Author

Listed:
  • Yingying Zhang Zhang

    (IUJ Research Institute, International University of Japan)

  • Zanele Penelope Phiri

    (IUJ Research Institute, International University of Japan)

Abstract

No abstract is available for this item.

Suggested Citation

  • Yingying Zhang Zhang & Zanele Penelope Phiri, 2025. "Sustainable Entrepreneurial Mindsets and Process: A Case Study of Smallholder Farms in Eswatini," Working Papers EMS_2025_02, Research Institute, International University of Japan.
    • Handle: RePEc:iuj:wpaper:ems_2025_02
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.iuj.ac.jp/workingpapers/index.cfm?File=EMS_2025_02.pdf
    File Function: First version, 2025
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Waldman, Kurt B. & Richardson, Robert B., 2018. "Confronting Tradeoffs Between Agricultural Ecosystem Services and Adaptation to Climate Change in Mali," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 150(C), pages 184-193.
    2. Sergio Gomez y Paloma & Laura Riesgo & Kamel Louhichi (ed.), 2020. "The Role of Smallholder Farms in Food and Nutrition Security," Springer Books, Springer, number 978-3-030-42148-9, March.
    3. Kazue Haga, 2018. "Innovation in Rural Japan: Entrepreneurs and Residents Meeting the Challenges of Aging and Shrinking Agricultural Communities," Journal of Innovation Economics, De Boeck Université, vol. 0(1), pages 87-117.
    4. Carlos Luis Barzola Iza & Domenico Dentoni, 2020. "How entrepreneurial orientation drives farmers' innovation differential in Ugandan coffee multi-stakeholder platforms," Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 10(5), pages 629-650, June.
    5. Innocent Otache, 2017. "Agripreneurship development: a strategy for revamping Nigeria’s economy from recession," African Journal of Economic and Management Studies, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 8(4), pages 474-483, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Silvia Saravia-Matus & T. S. Amjath-Babu & Sreejith Aravindakshan & Stefan Sieber & Jimmy A. Saravia & Sergio Gomez y Paloma, 2021. "Can Enhancing Efficiency Promote the Economic Viability of Smallholder Farmers? A Case of Sierra Leone," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(8), pages 1-17, April.
    2. Stephen Woroniecki, 2019. "Enabling Environments? Examining Social Co-Benefits of Ecosystem-Based Adaptation to Climate Change in Sri Lanka," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(3), pages 1-20, February.
    3. Anette Ruml & Martin C. Parlasca, 2022. "In‐kind credit provision through contract farming and formal credit markets," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(2), pages 402-425, April.
    4. Koffi M. Adji & Aklesso Y. G. Egbendewe & Boris O. K. Lokonon, 2022. "Potential impacts of sustainable agricultural practices on smallholders' behavior in developing countries: Evidence from Togo," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 46(1), pages 73-87, February.
    5. Timothy R. Silberg & Robert B. Richardson & Maria Claudia Lopez, 2020. "Maize farmer preferences for intercropping systems to reduce Striga in Malawi," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 12(2), pages 269-283, April.
    6. Christoph Schulze & Katarzyna Zagórska & Kati Häfner & Olimpia Markiewicz & Mikołaj Czajkowski & Bettina Matzdorf, 2024. "Using farmers' ex ante preferences to design agri‐environmental contracts: A systematic review," Journal of Agricultural Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 75(1), pages 44-83, February.
    7. repec:zib:zbseps:v:2:y:2022:2:1:p:67-73 is not listed on IDEAS
    8. Kotu, Bekele Hundie & Oyinbo, Oyakhilomen & Hoeschle-Zeledon, Irmgard & Nurudeen, Abdul Rahman & Kizito, Fred & Boyubie, Benedict, 2022. "Smallholder farmers’ preferences for sustainable intensification attributes in maize production: Evidence from Ghana," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 152(C).
    9. William Adzawla & Prem S. Bindraban & Williams K. Atakora & Oumou Camara & Amadou Gouzaye, 2022. "Economic Viability of Smallholder Agriculture in the Savannah and Transitional Zones of Ghana: Implications of Farm Output Commercialization and Farm Diversification," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(18), pages 1-22, September.
    10. Raymond Mugandani & Liboster Mwadzingeni & Paramu Mafongoya, 2021. "Contribution of Conservation Agriculture to Soil Security," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(17), pages 1-11, September.
    11. Daniel Morales Martínez & Alexandre Gori Maia & Junior Ruiz Garcia, 2022. "Spatial diffusion of efficient irrigation systems: a study of São Paulo, Brazil," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 66(3), pages 690-712, July.
    12. Elizabeth Eldridge & Marie-Eve Rancourt & Ann Langley & Dani Héroux, 2022. "Expanding Perspectives on the Poverty Trap for Smallholder Farmers in Tanzania: The Role of Rural Input Supply Chains," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(9), pages 1-34, April.
    13. Nawab Khan & Ram L. Ray & Hazem S. Kassem & Farhat Ullah Khan & Muhammad Ihtisham & Shemei Zhang, 2022. "Does the Adoption of Mobile Internet Technology Promote Wheat Productivity? Evidence from Rural Farmers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(13), pages 1-15, June.
    14. Michael Neema, 2024. "Designing a Framework for Assessing Agripreneurship Action for the Green Scheme Irrigation Projects, Namibia," International Journal of Innovation and Economic Development, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 9(6), pages 42-62, February.
    15. Ally Sithole & Oluwasogo David Olorunfemi, 2024. "Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of Adoption Trends, Impacts, and Challenges Among Smallholder Farmers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(22), pages 1-22, November.
    16. Kuldeep Singh & Madhvendra Misra, 2021. "Developing an agricultural entrepreneur inclination model for sustainable agriculture by integrating expert mining and ISM–MICMAC," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 5122-5150, April.
    17. Obed Quaicoe & Fafanyo Asiseh & Atta Selorm Aloka, 2024. "Enhancing Year-Round Profitability for Small-Scale Ranchers: An Economic Analysis of Integrated Cattle and Mushroom Production System," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(13), pages 1-15, June.
    18. Ally Sithole & Oluwasogo David Olorunfemi, 2024. "The Adoption of Sustainable Farming Practices by Smallholder Crop Farmers: Micro-Level Evidence from North-Eastern South Africa," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(12), pages 1-21, December.
    19. Charles Dwumfour Osei & Jincai Zhuang, 2024. "The Effects of Institutional Supports on Farm Entrepreneurial Performance: Exploring the Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation," SAGE Open, , vol. 14(1), pages 21582440241, March.
    20. Sarah Ephrida Tione, 2020. "Agricultural Resources and Trade Strategies: Response to Falling Land-to-Labor Ratios in Malawi," Land, MDPI, vol. 9(12), pages 1-32, December.
    21. Lily Kiminami & Shinichi Furuzawa & Akira Kiminami, 2023. "Role of creative classes in sustainable agricultural development: focusing on creating shared value in rural Japan," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 7(3), pages 903-934, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Sustainable Agriculture; Agri-Entrepreneurship; Smallholder Farmers; Innovation and Resilience; Eswatini Agriculture;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:iuj:wpaper:ems_2025_02. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kazumi Imai, Office of Academic Affairs (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/gsiujjp.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.