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Analysis of physiological changes in peanut germination and seedling stages following low-temperature stress

Frontiers in Plant Science
IntroductionPeanut cultivation in high-latitude regions is frequently subjected to low-temperature stress, which adversely affects peanut growth and development.
Zhihao Xiong, Zhihao Xiong, Shutao Yu, Shutao Yu, Zhuo Gao, Shengnan Xu, TengJiao Wang, Yechao Yin, Yu Zhang, Jingchao Dong, Xueying Li   +10 more
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Urban and Rural Residents’ Willingness to Pay for Desertification Prevention and Control and its Influencing Factors [PDF]

Nature Environment and Pollution Technology, 2019
The prevention and control of desertification cannot be separated from the active participation of local urban and rural residents. However, only a few studies on the difference in urban and rural residents’ willingness to pay for the prevention and ...
Weipeng Chao, Changjiang Zhang and Pengcheng Wang
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Desertification risk assessment and management program

, 2016
Risk assessment provides the possibility of planning and management to prevent and reduce the risk of desertification. The present study is aimed to assess the hazard and risk of desertification and to develop management programs in the semi-arid western
M. Akbari, H. Khosravi, H.R. Asgari, M. Ownegh, A. Sadoddin   +4 more
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National Policy Coherence Counts for Reducing Inequality in Global Climate and Development Agendas

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT International institutions promote policy coherence as crucial to the effective and fair implementation of global sustainability agendas, though the evidence for its benefits is slim. We present here the first systematic cross‐country dataset on the consequences of national government efforts to promote policy coherence for vulnerable groups ...
Katherine Browne, Adis Dzebo, Zoha Shawoo, Mario Cardenas, Pierrick Chalaye, Alexia Faus Onbargi, Cassilde Muhoza, Patricia Nicdao, Nokwethaba Makhanya, Navam Niles, Priyatma Singh   +10 more
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Desertification Control Practices in China

, 2020
Desertification is a form of land degradation principally in semi-arid and arid areas influenced by climatic and human factors. As a country plagued by extensive sandy desertification and frequent sandstorms and dust storms, China has been trying to find
Lanlan Guo, Xia Hu, Yanli Lyu, Guoming Zhang, Peijun Shi, Lianyou Liu, Guoyi Han   +6 more
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Camels as a Climate‐Resilient Linchpin for Sustainable Development in Global Drylands

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Camels represent a significant, yet underutilized, asset for advancing integrated sustainable development in the world's expanding drylands. Previous reviews have examined camels' physiology, milk composition, or pastoral systems in isolation; this review examines their potential as a climate‐resilient linchpin for food systems by synthesizing
Ayana Angassa, Minyahel Tilahun, Solomon G. Tesfamichael   +2 more
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Desertification: Process, Problems, Perspectives

, 1976
Papers presented during a 14 week seminar series, November 1975-April 1976.Desertification: What, Where, Why, Who / Patricia Paylore -- Desertification: Symptom of a Crisis / Harold E. Dregne -- The Consequences of Fooling Mother Nature / Terah L. Smiley
University of Arizona. Arid/Semi-Arid Natural Resources Program.
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Effects of Development Finance on Energy Transitions and Green Growth in Sub‐Saharan Africa

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While global agendas promote energy transition and green growth, Africa south of the Sahara (SSA) struggles with low energy access, highlighting a development paradox between climate goals and energy poverty. By aligning aid and development finance with SDGs 7 and 13, we analyze whether development finance is at a crossroads in supporting ...
Clement Oteng, Pius Gamette, Edward Kweku Nunoo, Frederick Takyi   +3 more
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Agrivoltaic Lettuce Production Under Future Climates: A Sustainable Strategy for Optimizing Food and Energy Yields

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food system resilience is increasingly challenged by climate change and global trade volatility, even in high‐income nations like Canada. Agrivoltaics—co‐locating crops and photovoltaics (PV)–offers a sustainable production strategy to optimize land use and address both food and energy security.
Uzair Jamil, Linda Alrayes, Eric Fordjour, Raymond Thomas, Joshua M. Pearce   +4 more
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Assessing pasture desertification recurrence in Kalmykia using remote sensing methods

Учёные записки Казанского университета: Серия Естественные науки
A geoinformation analysis of the retrospective satellite images was performed to reconstruct the spatiotemporal dynamics of changes in the area of the complex desertification sites and the recurrence of desertification processes in the Republic of ...
V. G. Yuferev, V. V. Doroshenko
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