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The plight of female agricultural wageworkers in Morocco during the COVID-19 pandemic
While vaccination campaigns against COVID-19 were launched worldwide, a drama has been unfolding in the Moroccan countryside. It has been marked, over the last couple of decades, by rapid agrarian transformation, manifestations of which have included ...
Bossenbroek Lisa, Ftouhi Hind
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Cassava as an insurance crop in a changing climate: The changing role and potential applications of cassava for smallholder farmers in Northeastern Thailand [PDF]
Approximately 80 percent of the 22 million people in Northeastern Thailand are engaged in agriculture, and the per capita income of the region is lower than in any other part of Thailand. The major constraint to crop production is rainfall.
Anan Polthanee
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Understanding the drivers of landscape fragmentation is essential to reduce the anthropisation impact on ecosystems and enhance biodiversity conservation.
Adama Zoungrana +5 more
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"We feed the world": the political ecology of the Corn Belt's driving narrative
Industrial grain production occupies most of Iowa's farmland. Around the edges of corn and soybean monocultures, however, small-scale, diversified farmers establish alternative agricultural operations and sell to local markets.
Andrea Lukacs Rissing
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Although pathogenic bacteria are the targets of antibiotics, these drugs also affect hundreds of commensal or mutualistic species. Moreover, the use of antibiotics is not only restricted to the treatment of infections but is also largely applied in ...
Helena Darmancier +7 more
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The current study was conducted in Bara Locality- North Kordofan - Sudan to assess climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies among agrarian communities.
Mohammed Hamed Mohammed +4 more
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Agrarian Transitions, Rural Resistance and Peasant Politics in Southeast Asia
In light of the recent revival of agrarian studies in the scholarship of Southeast Asia, this paper reviews three recent publications that are concerned with specific aspects of what has been framed as “agrarian transition”, “agrarian change” or ...
Fabian Drahmoune
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Increasing global demand for natural rubber began in the mid-2000s and led to large-scale expansion of plantations in Laos until rubber latex prices declined greatly beginning in 2011.
Mutlu Özdoğan +2 more
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It is recognized that the spread of antibiotic resistance (AR) genes among aquatic environments, including aquaculture and the human environment, can have detrimental effects on human and animal health and the ecosystem.
Daniel G. Silva +5 more
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Making social sense of aquaculture transitions
Resilience deals explicitly with change and provides a middle ground between the social and the environmental sciences. However, a growing critique by social scientists questions the ability of resilience thinking to adequately examine the social ...
Simon R. Bush, Melissa J. Marschke
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