An Exploration of Food Security and Agriculture Challenges for Female Farmers in Rubkona County, South Sudan

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dc.contributor.authorJieknyal Jr, Bijiek Gatwechen
dc.contributor.committeechairAnderson, James C.en
dc.contributor.committeechairArchibald, Thomas G.en
dc.contributor.committeememberRothschild, Joyceen
dc.contributor.committeememberGrayson, Randolph Larryen
dc.contributor.departmentAgricultural and Extension Educationen
dc.date.accessioned2016-03-11T09:00:14Zen
dc.date.available2016-03-11T09:00:14Zen
dc.date.issued2016-03-10en
dc.description.abstractThe purpose of this study was to explore food security and agricultural challenges to examine the feasibility of using extension services as food security challenges intervention. The study used extension services, microfinance, farm cooperatives, and educational strategy to apply the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to investigate culturally specific attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral constructs in relationship to female economic development through agricultural production. The use of semi-structured interviews in a qualitative research design was found useful in exploring the informants' experiences in challenges to food security and agricultural productivity not only in South Sudan, but also in Sub-Saharan Africa. In-depth one on one semi-structured interviews were conducted with farmers and international agriculture researchers.en
dc.description.degreePh. D.en
dc.format.mediumETDen
dc.identifier.othervt_gsexam:7110en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/64912en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectAgricultureen
dc.subjectExtension educationen
dc.titleAn Exploration of Food Security and Agriculture Challenges for Female Farmers in Rubkona County, South Sudanen
dc.typeDissertationen
thesis.degree.disciplineAgricultural and Extension Educationen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.leveldoctoralen
thesis.degree.namePh. D.en

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