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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
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Mapping the 0–100 cm three-dimensional distribution of soil organic matter in the Northeast China by integrating remote sensing and proximal spectral data

Geoderma
Measuring and monitoring soil organic matter (SOM) is essential for evaluating soil health, carbon sequestration, and agricultural sustainability, especially in the black soil regions.
Tianyu Miao, Wenjun Ji, Yang Yan, Baoguo Li, Bingbo Gao, Huaizhi Tang, Yong Chen, Qiangyi Yu, Yuanfang Huang   +8 more
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Decoupled scaling relationship between bamboo individual size and leaf morphological characteristics

BMC Plant Biology
Background The relationship between plant individual size and leaf morphology is a fascinating and active area of research in plant functional ecology. However, there is limited information on the scaling relationships between leaf morphology and height ...
Jun Sun, Yunqi He, Jinlong Li, Lina Yu, Baoshi Jin, Hongliang Gu, Dongliang Cheng   +6 more
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The Effect of Sustainability Information on Consumers' Preferences for Fungus‐Resistant Grape Wine

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The demand for sustainable food production is intensifying the need to reduce the environmental and social impacts of pesticide use in agriculture. In viticulture, where dependence on pesticides is high because grapevines are susceptible to fungal diseases, fungus‐resistant grape varieties (PIWI) offer a promising strategy to reduce chemical ...
Daniel Vecchiato, Andrea Dominici, Fabio Boncinelli   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil C-N-P Stoichiometry and Its Controlling Factors in Agricultural Soils Across the Songnen Plain, Northeast China

Agronomy
Soil carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) stoichiometry is essential for maintaining fertility and ecosystem functioning, yet its spatial patterns and drivers in large-scale agricultural regions remain unclear.
Shihan Qin, Bingjie Wang, Xingnuo Liu, Yingde Xu, Wenyou Hu, Jun Jiang, Jiuming Zhang, Chao Zhang, Enjun Kuang, Jingkuan Wang   +9 more
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Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin   +2 more
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Evolution of Oxidizable Soil Organic Carbon Fractions and Impacts on Rice Yield Under Fertility Gradients in a Typical Double-Cropping System

Agriculture
In double-cropping rice regions, soil organic carbon (SOC) levels are crucial for crop yield, and soil fertility drives rice productivity. This study clarified the driving patterns of oxidizable soil organic carbon fractions on rice yields across ...
Di Guan, Jiamei Wu, Shufang Pan, Faxiang Tian, Feng Zhang, Xionghui Ji, Yunhe Xie   +6 more
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Sound‐Based Assembly of Magnetically Actuated Soft Robots Toward Enhanced Release of Extracellular Vesicles

Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 7, Issue 3, March 2025.
Magnetic soft robots offer promise in biomedicine due to their wireless actuation and rapid response, but current fabrication methods are complex and have limited cellular compatibility. A new, contactless bioassembly strategy using hydrodynamic instabilities is introduced, enabling customizable, centimeter‐scale robots.
Wei Gao, Riccardo Tognato, Micaela Natta, Elena Della Bella, Alessandro Cianciosi, Tiziano Serra   +5 more
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Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt, Stefan Seifert, Saskia Wolff, Tobia Lakes, Marten Graubner, Axel Werwatz, Silke Hüttel   +6 more
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