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Food and Energy SecurityEnsuring food security while enhancing agricultural sustainability remains a critical challenge in Africa. China's rice technology transfer has emerged as an important external driver to address this issue, yet its comprehensive impacts remain ...
Deshuo Zhang +3 more
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Historia.scribere, 2019 The following paper is about the knowledge and technologies of rice cultivation that enslaved Africans brought from West Africa to colonial South Carolina.
Jasmin Joppich
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
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Traceability of Agri‐Food Products: The Key to Conscious Trade
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Globalization and growing concerns about sustainability have led to improvements in product traceability, quality, and sustainability. Traceability contributes to environmental protection and supports sustainable development by fostering transparency in agricultural practices and encouraging the responsible use of resources.
Scarlett Queen Almeida Bispo +5 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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Biotechnologie, Agronomie, Société et Environnement, 2013 Limitations of Bt rice in the entomological rice cropping context in sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. A review. In sub-Saharan African countries and Madagascar, rice crops host many insect species, which have been inventoried and studied for almost 40 ...
Silvie, P. +5 more
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Genotype frequency of black hull locus (Bh4) in weedy rice (Oryza sativa f. spontanea) populations [PDF]
Research & Knowledge, 2016 Black hull 4 (Bh4), is a hull color candidate gene that causes a black pigmentation in the ripened hulls of rice. A 22-bp deletion within exon 3 of the Bh4 variant disrupted the Bh4 function, which lead to a straw-white hull in Asian cultivated rice and ...
Preecha Prathepha
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Impact of Digital Ability and Rice Technology Adoption on Rice Farming Performance in Benin
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the combined effects of digital ability and the adoption of various rice technologies among smallholder rice farmers, using GPS‐spatially matched data sources that include household surveys and a general census of rice value chain actors in Benin.
Landry Bellarmin Kassa, Takeshi Sakurai
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Electronic Journal of Biotechnology, 2017 Background: Availability of related rice species is critical for rice breeding and improvement. Two distinct species of domesticated rice exist in the genus Oryza: Oryza sativa (Asian rice) and Oryza glaberrima (African rice). New rice for Africa (NERICA)
Caijin Chen +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil and the United States account for more than 40% of global poultry exports, with China and South Korea among their major destination markets. This study examines price transmission and market linkages between Brazil and the United States using monthly poultry export price data from January 1990 to December 2024. It also assesses which of
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb +2 more
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