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Farmers Knowledge on Indigenous Soil Types: A Review [PDF]

E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023
This review explains the significance of smallholder farmers’ understanding of soil types as a dependable basis for subsistence crop production. The data presented in this review was sourced from literature on subsistence farming, indigenous soil ...
Sejabaledi Agnes Rankoana
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Adaptations to potential impacts of climate change in the “New Hungary” Rural Development Programme

Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2009
There are evidences that the climate is changing and the effects on agriculture and wildlife are discernible. Spring is occurring earlier and autumn later, all of which have impacts on agriculture and forestry.
János Lazányi
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Climate change, transgenic corn adoption and field-evolved resistance in corn earworm [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
Increased temperature anomaly during the twenty-first century coincides with the proliferation of transgenic crops containing the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Berliner) (Bt) to express insecticidal Cry proteins.
P. Dilip Venugopal, Galen P. Dively
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Assessment of flood damage to agricultural crops under climate change scenarios using MRI-AGCM outputs in the Solo River basin of Indonesia [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences
Understanding the effects of climate change on agricultural crops is an essential part of flood-risk management and adaptation measures. However, the quantitative impact of flood damage on agricultural crops under climate change is still not clearly ...
B. B. Shrestha, M. Rasmy, T. Ushiyama, R. A. Acierto, T. Kawamoto, M. Fujikane, H. Ito, T. Shinya   +7 more
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WHICH AGRICULTURAL INNOVATIONS MATTER MOST TO NIGER’S FARMERS? COUNT-BASED AND BEST-WORST SCALING APPROACHES [PDF]

Russian Journal of Agricultural and Socio-Economic Sciences, 2023
The negative impact of quadruple insecurities (food, health, security and climate change) on smallholder farmers and their livelihoods have been considered as global challenge and threat for sustainable development and climate change management in most ...
Amadou Z.
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Management of Cover Crop Intercropping for Live Mulch on Plant Productivity and Growth Resources: A Review

Air, Soil and Water Research, 2023
Cover crops are a valuable tool for improving resources use, soil health, and productivity. However, the effects of intercropping cover crops as live mulches with cash crops can vary depending on the species, management practices, and environmental ...
Admire R. Dzvene, Weldemichael A. Tesfuhuney, Sue Walker, Gert Ceronio   +3 more
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Stochastic production function-based assessment of the performance of climate risk management in agriculture: Methods and applications [PDF]

Ziyuan Kexue
[Objective] As global warming progresses, it is of utmost importance to scientifically evaluate the effectiveness of climate risk management to enhance the capacity to adapt to climate change.
WANG Yangjie, MAO Xiaoyan, WANG Jinxian, QIANG Hongjie
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ORCHIDEE-MICT-BIOENERGY: an attempt to represent the production of lignocellulosic crops for bioenergy in a global vegetation model [PDF]

Geoscientific Model Development, 2018
Bioenergy crop cultivation for lignocellulosic biomass is increasingly important for future climate mitigation, and it is assumed on large scales in integrated assessment models (IAMs) that develop future land use change scenarios consistent with the ...
W. Li, C. Yue, P. Ciais, J. Chang, D. Goll, D. Zhu, S. Peng, A. Jornet-Puig   +7 more
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Carbon stable isotope analysis of cereal remains as a way to reconstruct water availability: preliminary results [PDF]

, 2011
Reconstructing past water availability, both as rainfall and irrigation, is important to answer questions about the way society reacts to climate and its changes and the role of irrigation in the development of social complexity.
AM Rosen, B Finlayson, BD Marino, C Grigson, C Körner, C Körner, C Migowski, DH Price, DW McCreery, E Galili, E Jenkins, E Kaptijn, E Peltenburg, Emma Jenkins, F Braemer, FB Salisbury, G Fiorentino, G Fiorentino, G Jones, G Palumbo, G Philip, G Rollefson, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GD Farquhar, GK Gillmore, GR Stewart, Gundula Müldner, H Helbaek, H Weiss, HR Stokes, I Kuijt, J Codron, J Doorenbos, J Hoefs, J Mabry, J Mabry, J Sealy, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JL Araus, JN Postgate, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Ferrio, JP Oleson, JR Ehleringer, JW Laundré, K Bastert, K Prag, KT Hubick, KW Butzer, L Cabrera-Bosquet, LT Tieszen, M Aguilera, M Charles, M Davies, M Harrower, M Madella, M Staubwasser, MH O’Leary, MW Ertsen, N Roberts, NK Fageria, P Monneveux, P Wright, Pascal Flohr, PB deMenocal, PG Whitehead, PMMG Akkermans, R Matthews, R Shaheen, RB Austin, RC Hunt, RS Wenke, RTJ Cappers, S Fujii, S Fujii, S Helms, S Mithen, S Riehl, S Riehl, SJ Bourke, SW Helms, TE Dawson, TE Levy, THE Heaton, THE Heaton, TW Boutton, TW Boutton, U Bellwald, VL Scarborough, Y Garfinkel   +97 more
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Using experimental manipulation of questionnaire design and a Kenyan panel to test for the reliability of reported perceptions of climate change and adaptation [PDF]

, 2020
While the use of surveys to understand perception of climate change and adaptation is common in research on agriculture, the reliability of aspects of the methodology is still largely untested. In particular there is limited evidence on (i) the degree to
MUNRO Alistair, 政策研究大学院大学 / National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies   +1 more
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