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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
wiley   +1 more source

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

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
wiley   +1 more source

An Exploratory Field Study on Egg Quality and Yolk Functional Properties in Commercial and Local Laying Hen Breeds Fed Whole Hemp Seed Under Agroecological Conditions. [PDF]

Foods
Marchetti L, Zeni NG, Zaniboni L, Giromini C, Lanzoni D, Corsetto PA, Rizzo AM, Colombini L, Dal Borgo AG, Gambazza G, Rebucci R.   +10 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
wiley   +1 more source

Tracking phases of the fall armyworm (<i>Spodoptera frugiperda</i>) invasion across multiple continents using news media. [PDF]

Biol Invasions
Bjorklund K, Barton MA, Daume S, Jørgensen PS.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Between Autonomy and Dependency: The Territorialisation of Agroecology in the Colombian Peasant Reserve Zones

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Peasant movements employ a spectrum of politico‐economic strategies for territorialising agroecology, ranging from autonomy to (inter)dependency. To substantiate this argument, I draw on qualitative fieldwork and historical analysis to examine the Colombian Peasant Reserve Zone movement's strategies for territorialising agroecology at both the
Daniel Ortiz Gallego
wiley   +1 more source

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

The Global Pesticide Complex: Infrastructure, Fragility and Frontiers of Agrarian Change

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although most pesticides have long been on the market, the political economy surrounding their production, regulation and use has undergone considerable change, spurring renewed interest in the social sciences. The global pesticide complex (GPC) is an analytical device to understand the multidimensional nature of these changes. In this special
Marion Werner, Kees Jansen, Jessie Luna, Nathalie Jas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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