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Orchard netting impacts on biodiversity leading to cascading effects at the ecosystem level. [PDF]
Biol Rev Camb Philos SocABSTRACT Agriculture must ensure food production without further compromising the ecosystem functions upon which it depends. Agricultural practices should therefore avoid harming farmland biodiversity, especially of taxa that supply the key ecosystem services (e.g.
Alessandrini C +13 more
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Radical dystopia: The comic modernism of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract The present essay turns the received view of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty‐Four on its head, arguing that Orwell's dystopian classic mobilizes the modernist techniques of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land to lampoon the ideological fatalism of Eliot and other cultural conservatives.
Magnus Ullén
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What is the structure of the coffee market: Can the real poor benefit from the coffee trade? [PDF]
This article deals with the trade with coffee. The primary aim of the paper is to analyse the international coffee trade. Because coffee belongs to the cash crops we have focus on the production. We have analysed the structure of the trade concerning the
Smutka, Lubos, Pokorna, Irena
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Design for sustainable coffee (post)consumption [PDF]
, 2013 Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world after oil. The worldwide annual generation of Spent Coffee Grounds (SCG) is about 6 million tons, but up till now they are practically unutilized, being discharged to the environment or burned ...
S. Barbero, Miriam Bicocca
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Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Enhancing nutritional quality of oilseed rape requires deeper insight into the genetic control of seed quality traits. This study analysed the effect of varying soil phosphorus (P) levels on seed quality traits in the hybrid cultivar Architect. NIRS and laboratory methods were used to quantify total seed P and phytic acid (IP6) content.
Jasmin Vettel +2 more
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Additive Variance and Open‐Pollinated Progenies Under Mixed Mating
Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Open‐pollinated progeny tests are still widely interpreted as if all the individuals within a maternal family were true half‐sibs. However, in species with mixed mating systems, this assumption is often biologically unrealistic and may bias the estimation of the additive variance, narrow‐sense heritability and expected selection gains.
Evandro Vagner Tambarussi
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THE LATIN AMERICAN ORGANIC COFFEE INDUSTRY: U.S. MARKET INROADS [PDF]
Certified organic coffee is a minuscule but important portion of coffee production and trade and is the fastest growing sector in sales revenue. Organic coffee has its roots in sustainable crop production and economic development policy.
Rodriguez, Danilo, Epperson, James E.
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Plant Breeding, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The widespread development of insecticide resistance and stricter regulations on pesticide use highlight the need for natural pest resistance in crops. In pepper, viral diseases such as pepper yellow leaf curl virus (PepYLCV), transmitted by the whitefly Bemisia tabaci, are a major constraint in tropical regions.
Erin Puspita Rini +3 more
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PROFITABILITY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGIC PLANNING OF COFFEE PROCESSING AND MARKETING IN RWANDA: A CASE STUDY OF A COFFEE GROWERS' ASSOCIATION [PDF]
The research paper investigates the profitability of investing in producing for the specialty coffee market, using the Maraba Association as a case study. The paper also develops a strategic analysis and plan for the same association.
Murekezi, Abdoul Karim
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