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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
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Redistributive land reforms, agricultural productivity, and structural change: New cross‐national evidence

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Large‐scale land reforms constitute a substantial redistribution of wealth and reallocation of agricultural land, which is a major form of asset and production input in developing countries. While land redistribution (from the rich to the poor) remains a highly controversial issue, extensive evidence on its effect is limited.
Devashish Mitra, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Lan Anh Tong, Mehmet A. Ulubasoglu   +3 more
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Putting Plant Genetic Diversity and Variability at Work for Breeding: Hybrid Rice Suitability in West Africa

Diversity, 2017
Rice is a staple food in West Africa, where its demand keeps increasing due to population growth. Hence, there is an urgent need to identify high yielding rice cultivars that fulfill this demand locally.
Raafat El-Namaky, Mamadou M. Bare Coulibaly, Maji Alhassan, Karim Traore, Francis Nwilene, Ibnou Dieng, Rodomiro Ortiz, Baboucarr Manneh   +7 more
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Navigating Whiteness in Australia's Anti‐Racism Movement: A Duoethnographic Inquiry by Women of Colour Scholars

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper applies Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore how whiteness operates within Australia's anti‐racism movement as a structuring force that shapes discourse, practice and policy. Despite the anti‐racism movement offering crucial spaces for resistance and reform, it remains entangled in Australia's settler‐colonial present and systemic ...
Franka Vaughan, Aish Ravi
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Translation and Cross‐Cultural Adaptation of the Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test for Global Use

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The Chronic Rhinosinusitis Control Test (CRCT) is a patient‐reported outcome measure (PROM) written in English that is psychometrically validated to measure chronic rhinosinusitis control. Because the availability of translated PROMs is a driver of data equity—collection of data that is fair and generally representative—our ...
Hye K. Pae, Detong Xia, Hanzhong Sun, Yudi Chen, Kwangoh Yi, Minjeong Song, Eriko Sato, Ali R. Abasi, Jody Ballah, Anna Babarczy, Raymond Bertram, Agnieszka Biernacka, Mable Chan, Teresa Civera, Irina Dubinina, Doğu Erdener, María Isabel Maldonado García, Ali Garib, Tuomo Häikiö, Fuk‐chuen HO, Li‐Yu Hung, R. Malatesha Joshi, Oksana Kanerva, Kiranpreet Kaur Baath, Björn Köhnlein, Dalibor Kučera, Paula Luegi, Yustinus Calvin Gai Mali, Sivan Medina, Stefan Milosavljević, Amna Mirza, Mohamed Y. Mwamzandi, Fatemeh Nami, Anabella‐Gloria Niculescu‐Gorpin, Portia Padilla, Georgia Panayiotou, Manuel Perea, Luciano Perondi, Hiển Phạm, Rasmus Puggaard‐Rode, Anurag Rimzhim, Sreeparna Sarkar, David L. Share, Gláucia V. Silva, Antônio R. M. Simões, Charlotte Stormbom, Titima Suthiwan, Katsuo Tamaoka, Mila Tasseva‐Kurktchieva, Paweł Urbanik, An Van, Katie M. Phillips, Ahmad R. Sedaghat   +52 more
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Sustainable Palm Oil Extraction and Trends in the Use of Green Technologies: State‐of‐the‐Art and Future Directions

Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Palm oil, which is extracted from the mesocarp of the fruit of the Elaeis guineensis Jacq. palm tree, is the most widely produced vegetable oil in the world. The extraction of this substance typically utilizes the conventional pressing method, a technique that is advantageous due to its low operating cost and simplified process.
Constantino Lucas Queta, Alessandra Lopes de Oliveira, Aline Silva Mello Cesar   +2 more
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An asymmetric allelic interaction drives allele transmission bias in interspecific rice hybrids

Nature Communications, 2019
Our limited understanding of the hybrid sterility (HS) mechanism in Asian–African rice hybrids hampers utilization of the interspecific heterosis for rice production.
Yongyao Xie, Jintao Tang, Xianrong Xie, Xiaojuan Li, Jianle Huang, Yue Fei, Jingluan Han, Shuifu Chen, Huiwu Tang, Xiucai Zhao, Dayun Tao, Peng Xu, Yao-Guang Liu, Letian Chen   +13 more
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Catalytic Pyrolysis of Waste Polystyrene Over Fe–B Composite Catalyst for Enhanced Liquid Fuel Production

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Healthcare derived polystyrene waste represents a growing and under addressed fraction of plastic waste streams due to contamination risks and limited recyclability. This study aims to investigate the valorization of waste polystyrene foam through catalytic and noncatalytic pyrolysis pathways to evaluate product yield distribution and identify
Salman Khan, Zahid Hussain, Bilal Ahmad, Naveed Ahmad, Shohreh Azizi   +4 more
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African Cultivated, Wild and Weedy Rice (Oryza spp.): Anticipating Further Genomic Studies

Biology
Rice is a staple crop in sub-Saharan Africa, and it is mostly produced by Asian cultivars of Oryza sativa that were introduced to the continent around the fifteenth or sixteenth century. O.
Babatunde O. Kehinde, Lingjuan Xie, Beng-Kah Song, Xiaoming Zheng, Longjiang Fan   +4 more
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Synergistic Advanced Oxidation and Physicochemical Treatment Strategies for Antibiotic Removal and Resistance Mitigation in Water

Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The presence of antibiotics in water not only causes environmental pollution but also increases the growth of antibiotic‐resistant bacterial genes, which pose serious threats to human beings and other water residents. Large numbers of people are reportedly affected by the resistant bacterial genes, as many broad‐spectrum antibiotics are not ...
Amir Zada, Shohreh Azizi
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