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Forests, Fields, and Pastures: Unequal Access to Brazil Nuts and Livelihood Strategies in an Extractive Reserve, Brazilian Amazon

open access: yesLand, 2022
This article examines access to an economically important forest product (Brazil nuts) and its relationship with livelihood strategies in the Cazumbá–Iracema Extractive Reserve (CIER), Acre, Brazil.
Bruno Ubiali, Miguel Alexiades
doaj   +1 more source

Local knowledge and practices about fire use in wetlands management Argentina. A comparative study of fire regimes in two wetlands in Santa Fe province

open access: yesBiodiversidade Brasileira, 2020
Wetlands are one of the most vulnerable ecosystems under current and future scenarios of climate change. Variation of rain distribution patterns, increase of extreme weather events (ENSO events, intense dry and rainy periods, heat waves), and changes in
Adriana Fabiola Millán Devera   +4 more
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Sustainable Development and the Transformation of Female Rural Labor: the Case of Women Cattle Ranchers in Uruguay

open access: yesSustentabilidade em Debate, 2014
Although rural woman are usually considered key to sustainable development at the international level, their work in cattle-raising continues to be under-recognized by most policymakers from Uruguay.
Virginia Courdin   +2 more
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Dual origins of dairy cattle farming--evidence from a comprehensive survey of European Y-chromosomal variation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
BACKGROUND: Diversity patterns of livestock species are informative to the history of agriculture and indicate uniqueness of breeds as relevant for conservation.
Ginja, Catarina   +61 more
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Dams Change Beta Diversity of Aquatic Communities in the Veredas of the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021
The veredas are wetland ecosystems responsible for supplying most of the water for rivers and streams in the Cerrado. The veredas’ hydromorfic soils retain a large amount of rainwater, releasing it slowly during drier periods.
Leandro Schlemmer Brasil   +11 more
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OPTIMUM LENGTH OF RAISING TIME AND THE RELATION WITH BUSINESS INCOME OF SIMMENTAL-ONGOLE GRADE CROSSBRED BEEF CATTLE FATTENING FARM IN WONOSOBO REGENCY-CENTRAL JAVA

open access: yesJournal of the Indonesian Tropical Animal Agriculture, 2014
Optimizing the length of raising time in cattle fattening business should be applied to increasefarmers’ income. A survey research was carried out to analyze the optimum raising duration and itsrelationship with income in the business of Simmental ...
B.M. Setiawan   +3 more
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On the Breeds of Cattle—Historic and Current Classifications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Classification of cattle breeds contributes to our understanding of the history of cattle and is essential for an effective conservation of genetic diversity.
Koolmees, Peter A.   +106 more
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Emissions of Air Pollutants From the Livestock Production in Ukraine

open access: yesAgricultural Science and Practice, 2014
Aim. To research the contribution of the poultry activity of Ukraine to emissions of environmental pollutants and estimate possible emissions by various meat production sub-sectors on the basis of their structure. Methods. We used informational databases
O. Zhukorskyi   +2 more
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Vulnerabilities and Threats to Natural Forest Regrowth: Land Tenure Reform, Land Markets, Pasturelands, Plantations, and Urbanization in Indigenous Communities in Mexico

open access: yesLand, 2021
Despite the economic and social costs of national and international efforts to restore millions of hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes, results have not met expectations due to land tenure conflicts, land-use transformation, and top-down ...
Elena Lazos-Chavero   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exterior and constitutional features of first-calf cows of black-and-white cattle of different genotypes [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2021
The dairy cattle breeding development depends largely on the culture of raising young animals of the cattle. Production and maintaining healthy young animals is an extremely challenging task for livestock breeders [1,3,12,14].
Basonov Orest   +4 more
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