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Can outsourcing pest and disease control help reduce pesticide expenditure? Evidence from rice farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Outsourcing pest and disease control (PDC) has grown rapidly worldwide, especially in developing countries. Although numerous studies have investigated various advantages of outsourcing PDC, little is known about its impact on pesticide expenditure.
Pengcheng Wang, Wanglin Ma, Mengling Diao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity Quality: a paradigm for biodiversity [PDF]

, 2009
The internationally accepted definition of biodiversity creates difficulty in measuring difference and change. The authors suggest that well-sampled data can be used to generate a range of numerical indices reflecting species group characteristics ...
Alan Feest, Katrin Jedamzik, Timothy Aldred   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodiversity and ecosystem function in soil [PDF]

, 2005
1. Soils are one of the last great frontiers for biodiversity research and are home to an extraordinary range of microbial and animal groups. Biological activities in soils drive many of the key ecosystem processes that govern the global system ...
Finlay B.J., Finlay B.J., Groombridge B., Kowalchuk G.A., Liu W.T., Manefield M., Meselson M., Morton J.B., Torsvik V., Wall D.   +9 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

BIG DATA AND BIODIVERSITY. Filling in biodiversity threat gaps.

Science (New York, N.Y.), 2016
Only 5% of global threat data sets meet a “gold standard” The diversity of life on Earth—which provides vital services to humanity ( 1 )—stems from the difference between rates of evolutionary diversification and extinction. Human activities have shifted the balance ( 2 ): Species extinction rates are an estimated 1000 times the “background” rate ( 3 )
Joppa, LN, O'Connor, B, Visconti, P, Smith, C, Geldmann, J, Hoffmann, M, Watson, JEM, Butchart, SHM, Virah-Sawmy, M, Halpern, BS, Ahmed, SE, Balmford, A, Sutherland, WJ, Harfoot, M, Hilton-Taylor, C, Foden, W, Di Minin, E, Pagad, S, Genovesi, P, Hutton, J, Burgess, ND   +20 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

How Does Sharing Data from Research Institutions on Global Biodiversity Information Facility Enhance Its Scientific Value?

Diversity
For decades, thousands of scientific institutions worldwide have been digitizing collections documenting biodiversity. The advantages and benefits of this process are widely described.
Bogdan Jackowiak, Marcin Lawenda
doaj   +1 more source

DNA barcoding and taxonomy: dark taxa and dark texts [PDF]

, 2016
Both classical taxonomy and DNA barcoding are engaged in the task of digitizing the living world. Much of the taxonomic literature remains undigitized. The rise of open access publishing this century and the freeing of older literature from the shackles ...
Page, Roderic D.M.
core   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source