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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

Impact of a Digital Platform for Wildlife Information Management in the Cerro Blanco Protected Forest of Guayaquil Using Plithogenic Statistics [PDF]

Neutrosophic Sets and Systems
Protected areas, such as the 6078-hectare Cerro Blanco Protected Forest of Guayaquil, often struggle with inefficient wildlife information management, including previously physical and inefficient methods of fauna control, which can hinder effective ...
Sonia Jacqueline Tigua Moreira, Edison Luis Cruz Navarrete, Diana Lucia Tigua Moreira, Pedro Manuel García Arias   +3 more
doaj  

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

Macroecology meets IPBES

Frontiers of Biogeography, 2016
The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), established in 2012 to counter the biodiversity crisis, requires the best scientific input available to function as a successful science-policy interface that addresses the ...
Christian Hof, D. Matthias Dehling, Aletta Bonn, Neil D. Burgess, Felix Eigenbrod, Michael B. J. Harfoot, Thomas Hickler, Walter Jetz, Elisabeth Marquard, Henrique M. Pereira, Katrin Böhning-Gaese   +10 more
doaj  

European Lepidoptera–Plant Associations: A Species‐Level Interaction Matrix

Ecology and Evolution
Documenting plant–herbivore interactions at broad spatial scales is crucial for understanding the ecological and evolutionary processes that shape biodiversity.
Álvaro Gaytán
doaj   +1 more source

Data hosting infrastructure for primary biodiversity data

BMC Bioinformatics, 2011
Background Today, an unprecedented volume of primary biodiversity data are being generated worldwide, yet significant amounts of these data have been and will continue to be lost after the conclusion of the projects tasked with collecting them.
Goddard Anthony, Wilson Nathan, Cryer Phil, Yamashita Grant   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

Weaving for action: Transformative change in biodiversity monitoring

People and Nature
The Post‐2020 Kunming‐Montreal Biodiversity Framework aims to drive transformative change to halt biodiversity loss. To track progress toward its goals and targets, a dedicated monitoring framework has been established.
Carol X. Garzon‐Lopez, Laura M. Bellis, Camilo Castillo, Tahani Nadim, Duccio Rocchini, Koenraad Van Meerbeek, Hakon Stokland, Esther Turnhout, Margaret Gold, Anne Beaulieu   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

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