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Right to Food in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Challenges, Policies, and Sustainable Strategies

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the multifaceted issue of food security in Sub‐Saharan Africa and the critical importance of upholding rights to food in the region. It explores the challenges posed by food insecurity, analyzes existing policies and interventions, and proposes sustainable strategies to enhance food security.
Helen Onyeaka, Adenike A. Akinsemolu, Phemelo Tamasiga, Ogueri Nwaiwu, Elijah Kolawole Oladipo, Kehinde Abolade Aderibigbe, Taghi Miri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic Analysis of Manure Harvesting Equipment in Feedyards for Dust Control [PDF]

This study concentrated on one method of dust control which is harvesting manure with equipment. An economic analysis including hourly fixed and operational costs were performed on the following: tractor-pulled box scraper, front-end loader, dump truck ...
Amosson, Stephen H., Marek, Thomas H., Bretz, Fran E., Warminski, Patrick L.   +3 more
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Soil bacterial biodiversity is driven by long-term pasture management, poultry litter, and cattle manure inputs

PeerJ, 2019
Soil microorganisms are important for maintaining soil health, decomposing organic matter, and recycling nutrients in pasture systems. However, the impact of long-term conservation pasture management on soil microbial communities remains unclear ...
Yichao Yang, A. Ashworth, J. DeBruyn, C. Willett, L. Durso, K. Cook, P. Moore, P. Owens   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of a composting process for the treatment of beef cattle manure

Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B, 2015
The intensive breeding of beef cattle in Juncosa de les Garrigues (Catalonia, Spain) leads to the production of a large volume of manure that needs appropriate management. Land application in the area at agronomic rates is not enough to ensure good management practices, making necessary extended on-farm storage and the export of part of the production ...
Magrí Aloy, Albert, Teira Esmatges, Rosa Maria   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Cost Behavior of Organic Versus Conventional Farms: Assessing Economic Resilience and the Ecological Dividend

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study empirically examines the cost behavior in organic versus conventional farming to assess economic resilience. Using Spanish FADN data (2015–2021), results show organic farms exhibit higher cost elasticity during output increases and lower elasticity during decreases.
Josep M. Argilés‐Bosch, Josep Garcia‐Blandon, Diego Ravenda, Enric Tello, Manuel González de Molina, Noelia Parajuá, Doriana Nicoara‐Popescu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘From the Fields Into the Bars’: The Story of Israel's First Transgender Novel, The Cut (1977)

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In 1977, an Israeli transgender woman, Judy Spotheim, published an autobiographical novel entitled The Cut. It describes the emergence of a trans community in the commercial‐sex areas of Tel Aviv‐Jaffa, hoping to humanise trans women (coccinelles). This article is the first to study the novel and present a biography of Spotheim.
Gil Engelstein, Iris Rachamimov
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of irrigation intervals and organic manure on morphological traits, essential oil content and yield of oregano ( Origanum vulgare L.)

Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências
In order to evaluate the effect of irrigation intervals and cattle manure levels on morphological traits, essential oil content and yield of oregano, an experiment was conducted at the experimental Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Urmia University ...
FARZAD GERAMI, PARVIZ R. MOGHADDAM, REZA GHORBANI, ABBAS HASSANI   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adubação orgânica na produção de biomassa de plantas, teor e qualidade de óleo essencial de orégano (Origanum vulgare L.) em cultivo protegido Organic fertilization on phytomass production and essential oil content and quality of oregano (Origanum vulgare L.) under protected cultivation

Revista Brasileira de Plantas Medicinais, 2010
Origanum vulgare L., conhecida como orégano, é considerada planta condimentar largamente usada na culinária. No Brasil poucas são as pesquisas com esta espécie visando maximização das técnicas de cultivo.
R.M Corrêa, J.E.B.P Pinto, E.S Reis, L.C.B Costa, P.B Alves, E.S Niculan, R.S Brant   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
wiley   +1 more source

Energetic and environmental benefits of co-digestion of food waste and cattle slurry: a preliminary assessment [PDF]

, 2011
The research evaluated the feasibility of centralised pre-processing and pasteurisation of source-separated domestic food waste followed by transport to farms for anaerobic co-digestion with dairy cattle slurry.
Andrew M. Salter, Salter, Andrew, Sonia Heaven, Keith Riley, Banks, Charles J., Salter, Andrew M., Charles J. Banks, Heaven, Sonia, Riley, Keith   +8 more
core   +1 more source