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Slavery and spatial dialectics on Cuban coffee plantations [PDF]
World Archaeology, 2001 Slaveholders manipulated the spatial organization of plantations to their advantage in an effort to control the actions of enslaved workers. Slave workers, on the hand, always found ways to resist planter hegemony. Cuban slaveholders, not only employed surveillance measures comparable to those found elsewhere in the Americas, but they also housed ...
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Major staple crops are often introduced and cultivated in monocultures. Yams are staple crops native to the majority of low‐ and middle‐income countries and can provide an alternative to introduced staple crops. We showed that lesser yams cultivated together with teak trees (planted at the border of the farm) are more profitable than lesser yam ...
Budiadi +5 more
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Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental, 2001 Utilizando-se ferramentas de análise espacial, com o presente trabalho objetivou-se investigar a evolução da lavoura de café no espaço geográfico, em importante região do estado de Minas Gerais, verificando-se a sustentabilidade da produção em diferentes
Júlio C. F. de Melo Júnior +4 more
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Existing Sustainability Interventions are Insufficient to Scale Up Cocoa Agroforestry in West Africa
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainability transitions in agri‐food systems are required to address climate change, biodiversity loss, and social inequities. In the West African cocoa sector, supply chain sustainability initiatives (SSIs) have emerged as key environmental governance tools to address these challenges and promote agroforestry.
Keessy Maria‐Prisca Kouakou +8 more
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Aceh International Journal of Science and Technology, 2012 Rainfall interception loss from plants or trees can reduce a net rainfall as source of water yield. The amount of rainfall interception loss depends on kinds of plants and hydro-meteorological characteristics. Therefore, it is important to study rainfall
Reza Benara +2 more
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Small mammals in a fragment and adjacent matrix in southeastern Brazil
Brazilian Journal of BiologyBetween May 2002 and May 2003, we studied a small mammal community from an Atlantic forest fragment surrounded by a coffee plantation in the municipality of Santa Teresa, Espírito Santo state, Brazil.
M. Passamani, D. Ribeiro
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AGRIBISNIS PERKEBUNAN RAKYAT KOPI ROBUSTA DI KABUPATEN SOLOK
Jurnal Agrisep, 2015 The largest area of local coffee plantation in West Sumatera Province is in the District of Solok, that covers the area around 9,300 Ha, with the annual production of 8,500 Ton. There are two varieties of coffee in this District, arabica and robusta. The
Rika Hariance +2 more
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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong +3 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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