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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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Trade trends from 2000 to 2008 for agriculture, forestry and fisheries of the Western Cape [PDF]
This paper aims to identify trade trends for primary products from the Western Cape agricultural, forestry and fisheries sector for the period 2000 until 2008. Annual trade data was received from the South African Revenue Service (SARS).
Jacobs, Elne, Punt, Cecilia
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Representation of Africa online: sourcing practice and frames of reference [PDF]
, 2011 The dominant perspective on the representation of Africa in the western media claims that western media coverage is bias and crisis orientated and the liberal perspective claims that the coverage of Africa is not as negative as is often assumed. However,
Alia, V. +16 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Think Piece: Working for Living - Popular Education as/at Work for Social-ecological Justice
Southern African Journal of Environmental Education, 2020 Drawing on the working lives of popular educators who are striving for socioeconomic and socio-ecological justice, we demonstrate how popular education is a form of care work which is feminised, often undervalued and unrecognised as highly skilled work.
Jane Burt +3 more
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American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Flowers that present their anthers and stigma in close proximity can achieve precise animal‐mediated pollen transfer, but risk self‐pollination. One evolutionary solution is reciprocal herkogamy. Reciprocity of anther and style positions among different plants (i.e., a genetic dimorphism) is common in distylous plants, but very rare in
Steven D. Johnson +5 more
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International Journal of Electrochemical Science, 2014 An electrochemical platform was developed based on a pencil-graphite electrode (PGE) modified with electrochemically reduced graphene oxide (ERGO) sheets and in conjunction with an in situ plated bismuth-film (ERGO-PG-BiE).
Keagan Pokpas +5 more
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THE COMPETITIVENESS OF WESTERN CAPE WHEAT PRODUCTION: AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON [PDF]
This paper reports the results of an international comparison of the cost of producing wheat in 8 Western Cape, 3 Free State and 7 foreign producing areas.
Kleynhans, Theo E. +2 more
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Revised proposal for encoding the Adlam script in the SMP of the UCS [PDF]
, 2014 This is a proposal to encode the Adlam script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 9.0 in June 2016.
Everson, Michael
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Genome sequence of the Lebeckia ambigua-nodulating 'Burkholderia sprentiae' strain WSM5005T [PDF]
, 2013 "Burkholderia sprentiae" strain WSM5005(T) is an aerobic, motile, Gram-negative, non-sporeforming rod that was isolated in Australia from an effective N-2-fixing root nodule of Lebeckia ambigua collected in Klawer, Western Cape of South Africa, in ...
Ardley, Julie +31 more
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