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Determining Factors Affecting Agroecological Practices’ Acceptance and Use in Mali, West Africa

Land degradation issues and declining fertility are driving the need for agroecological practices. This research analysed the determinants of acceptance and actual use of five main agroecological practices (contour farming techniques, organic fertiliser,
Augustin K. N. Aoudji, Achille Ephrem Assogbadjo, Idelphonse O. Saliou, Harouna Coulibaly, Bourema Koné, Moumouni Sidibé, Afio Zannou, Issa Sacko   +7 more
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Decoding stress resilience in soybean: Regulatory networks and precision breeding under climate change

Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.
This review covers recent progress in the understanding of stress‐responsive regulatory networks in soybean and highlights emerging genomic and breeding strategies. Integrating molecular insights and precision breeding will help to accelerate the development of climate‐resilient soybean cultivars.
Ali Shahzad, Monan Sun, Shuangkang Pei, Xiaoyu Liu, Yinhe Zhang, Keheng Xu, Hongtao Gao, Yonggang Zhou, Haiyan Li   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Capital–Labour–State Dynamics of Herbicide Adoption in Rainfed India

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper engages debates around the capital–labour–state dynamics of agrarian transitions to address the oft‐studied but still little‐understood question of why farmers adopt herbicides when they do. Over the last several years, smallholder farmers in India have begun using the herbicide bispyribac sodium at breakneck speeds, particularly in
Carly Nichols, Nidhi Kumari
wiley   +1 more source

Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

How Could Agroecological Markets Support Healthier Diets in Urban and Periurban Areas for Low-Income Women? A Case Study of Dakar, Senegal. [PDF]

Curr Dev Nutr
Bezner Kerr R, Seye M, Alpha A, Sirdey N.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Presence of Agroecological Practices in Central Slovenske gorice

, 2018
V magistrskem delu smo raziskovali prisotnost agroekoloških ukrepov v Osrednjih Slovenskih goricah. Agroekologija obsega znanosti, načine kmetovanja in družbena gibanja za krepitev samooskrbnosti in prilagajanje podnebnim spremembam, tako da je ...
Davidović, Danijel
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Searching for Sustainability: Industrial Agriculture of Small Farmers in China and Its Structural Strains

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ‘sustainability turn’ in China's development paradigm is in part a response to the sustainability challenges—both ecologically and socially—that China's agrarian transition has generated. This article characterizes China's agrarian system as an ‘industrial agriculture of small farmers’ (IASF): industrial in method and social metabolism ...
Qian Forrest Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

Soil stoichiometric characteristics of protected cultivation systems in Northwest China. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Jing G, Huang B, He L, Li Y, Wang W, Lu Q, Zhang Z, Chen Z.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Peasant Movements and the Fourth Transformation in Mexico: What Does the Theory of Collective Empowerment Tell Us?

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines peasant and Indigenous movements in Mexico since Morena's rise to power in 2018 through the lens of collective empowerment theory, a theory of political‐cultural formation. Beyond offering an empirical assessment, the theory is refined and formalized through an analysis of these movements and their relationship to ...
Gerardo Otero
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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