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How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
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European Union Water Policy: Key Issues and Challenges [PDF]
, 2012 Water resources are among the most valuable resources of the natural environment. The sustainable and integrated management of these resources is the basis of European water policy.
Lipińska, Danuta
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Climate variability is affecting the productivity, profitability, and resilience of smallholder dairy producers in developing countries. The adoption of climate‐smart (CS) dairy practices has been promoted to mitigate these negative effects. However, while interest in dairy CS practices is growing, empirical evidence on their adoption patterns
Mercy Mburu +4 more
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The Effect of Plant Water Storage on Water Fluxes within the Coupled Soil–Plant System [PDF]
, 2017 In addition to buffering plants from water stress during severe droughts, plant water storage (PWS) alters many features of the spatio-temporal dynamics of water movement in the soil–plant system.
Domec, Jean-Christopher +6 more
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn +3 more
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Agricultural drought in the Claromecó river basin, Buenos Aires province, Argentina [PDF]
, 2008 The dry and wet periods affecting the Claromecó Creek Basin in the south of the Province of Buenos Aires were analysed applying Palmer’s Model. Palmer’s Drought Severity Index was calculated regionally for five towns for the 1904-1999 period.
Carbone, Maria Elizabeth +2 more
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Impact of droughts on the carbon cycle in European vegetation : a probabilistic risk analysis using six vegetation models [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Balkovi, J. +15 more
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The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
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Droughts and California agriculture [PDF]
Droughts ; Agriculture - California ...
Ronald H. Schmidt, Stephen O. Dean
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Low flow controls on benthic and hyporheic macroinvertebrate assemblages during supra-seasonal drought [PDF]
, 2009 Despite the widely accepted importance of the hyporheic zone as a habitat for stream macroinvertebrates during floods, few data exist regarding community composition and distribution during periods of low flow or drought in perennial streamsi ...
Acuna +65 more
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