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The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) and New Agrarian Questions in Brazil

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Landless Rural Workers Movement of Brazil (MST) primarily organized occupations of large‐scale farms, forcing the redistribution of land for creation of agrarian reform settlements. In the past 20 years, however, land occupations and the establishment of new agrarian reform settlements have consistently declined, while the MST shifted ...
Estevan Coca, Gustavo de L. T. Oliveira
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Climatic, environmental factors and agricultural practices favoring dynamics of the spread of African cassava mosaic disease in Côte d'Ivoire. [PDF]

Discov Agric
Kouakou BSM, Seka JSS, Pita JS, Yoboué AAN, Chedjou IT, Eboulem GR, Kouassi NK, Tiendrébéogo F, Sorho F.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fixing Rice Stubble Burning for Delhi's Air: Technological Solutionism and Agrarian Governance in Haryana

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
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Smallholder farmers' adaptation strategies among coffee farming household heads in the Kafa biosphere reserve, Ethiopia. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Amsalu A, Garedew W, Melka GA, Çelik MA, Gemeda DO.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Protecting While Promoting? The Limits of Agroindustry‐Driven Pesticide Safety in Ugandan Smallholder Agriculture

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pesticide use is expanding rapidly across sub‐Saharan Africa, while regulatory oversight and public protection structures remain weak, leaving smallholder farmers exposed to mounting health and environmental risks. In response, agrochemical industry actors have launched ‘safe use’ initiatives that emphasize training and personal protective ...
Elina Andersson, Ellinor Isgren, Aggrey Atuhaire   +2 more
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From pesticides use to agroecology: Survey dataset on farming systems in the Lake Guiers area in Senegal. [PDF]

Data Brief
Traoré MB, Belmin R, Ouedraogo R, Fernandes P, Sy DS, Founoune H, Djigal D, Ba M, Samaké O, Feder F, Kane A, Vermeire ML.   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Counter‐Plantation Imaginaries: Deproletarianisation and Struggle for Autonomy in India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the decline of the 2015 Pembillai Orumai movement in India's Munnar tea belt as an event revealing the dialectical relationship between labour struggle and agrarian capitalism within the plantation complex. Although widely celebrated for securing wage gains through a historic Dalit woman–led strike, the movement's rapid ...
Jayaseelan Raj
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Evaluating iSAT climate-informed agro-advisories for farm decisions and system performance in Senegal's drylands. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Joseph JE, Whitbread AM, Akinseye FM, Dhulipala R, Worou ON, Faye A, Kebe NA, Seck B, Konte O, Rötter RP.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Evaluating 20% and 40% Inclusion of Sugary Former Foods in Pig Diets: Effects on Growth Performance, Feeding Behaviour, Carcass and Meat Quality Traits

Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Former food products (FFP) are food industry leftovers that can be used as feed ingredients. We investigated the effects of sugary FFP on growth, feeding behaviour, carcass and meat quality of pigs fattened to a heavy weight. Three inclusion levels were tested: 0% (FFP‐0 = control), 20% (FFP‐20) and 40% (FFP‐40) FFP in grower (20–60 kg BW ...
Marjeta Čandek‐Potokar, Martin Škrlep, Klavdija Poklukar, Patrick Schlegel, Giuseppe Bee   +4 more
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A Critical Review of Mycotoxin Contamination in Food and Feed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Neighboring Countries: Challenges and Future Directions. [PDF]

Toxins (Basel)
Kasongo MK, Duki AM, Masiala CT, De Saeger S, Diana Di Mavungu J.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source