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Farmers' management of rice varietal diversity in the mid-hills of Nepal: implications for on-farm conservation and crop improvement [PDF]

, 2009
Season-long monitoring of on-farm rice (Oryza sativa, L.) plots in Nepal explored farmers' decision-making process on the deployment of varieties to agroecosystems, application of production inputs to varieties, agronomic practices and relationship ...
B. R. Sthapit, Bellon, Brown, C. J. Garforth, Ceccarelli, Chaudhary, Dawson, Frankel, Gyawali, Gyawali, Hobbs, Jarvis, Jarvis, Khush, Kieft, Perales, R. B. Rana, Rana, Rana, Sadiki, Sthapit, Tripp, Zimmerer   +22 more
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Synergies in Agricultural Biodiversity Conservation: Decomposing the Interaction Between Nature Parks and Agri‐Environment Schemes

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Understanding how policy instruments with overlapping goals interact is crucial for leveraging their synergies. This study explores the mechanisms for regional nature parks (a form of protected areas that impose no restrictions on agriculture) to enhance the adoption of biodiversity‐conserving agri‐environment schemes (AES) in Switzerland ...
Yanbing Wang, Christian Ritzel, Antonia Kaiser, Gabriele Mack   +3 more
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THE DETERMINANTS OF CEREAL CROP DIVERSITY ON FARMS IN THE ETHIOPIAN HIGHLANDS [PDF]

On farm conservation of crop diversity entails policy challenges, especially when the diversity of crops maintained on farms has both inter-specific (among crops) and infra-specific (within a crop) components.
Benin, Samuel, Ehui, Simeon K., Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Pender, John L., Smale, Melinda   +4 more
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EFFECTS OF PRODUCTION DIVERSITY ON NUTRITION OF FARMING HOUSEHOLDS IN NIGERIA.

Greener Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022
Diets in Nigeria, across population and all income quintiles are lacking diversity and continue to include too many calories from staple foods and too few from nutritious foods such as vegetables, fruits, pulses and nuts, and some animal source-foods.
openaire   +1 more source

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte, Matthew H. Langholtz, Chad M. Hellwinckel   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Off-farm employment, agriculture production activities, and household dietary diversity in environmentally and economically vulnerable areas of Asia

Journal of Integrative Agriculture
Access to off-farm employment has been expected to be a critical approach to ending hunger and all forms of malnutrition, two important targets of achieving Zero Hunger.
Yunli Bai, Xuanye Zeng, Chao Fu, Linxiu Zhang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Production Diversity Is Not Associated with Women's Dietary Diversity After Controlling for Wealth and Participation in an Agriculture Intervention in Tanzania (P10-031-19).

Current Developments in Nutrition, 2019
Objectives Farm production diversity has long thought to be a primary driver of dietary diversity. Few studies have explored the drivers of dietary diversity among women, who are often vulnerable to sub-optimal diets.
M. Guo, Marianne V. Santoso, R. Kerr, N. Kassim, H. Martin, Elias Mtinda   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Determinants of Rice Variety Diversity on Household Farms in the Terai Region of Nepal [PDF]

Crop genetic resources are the building block of sustainable agricultural development as these can be used to develop crop varieties adaptable to heterogeneous environmental conditions.
Bauer, Siegfried, Joshi, Ganesh R.
core   +1 more source

Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition Policy and Agribusiness in the Biden Administration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Biden Administration pursued a set of ambitious competition policy initiatives in agriculture and agribusiness, primarily aimed at livestock and poultry supply chains, farm inputs, and food retailing. The initiatives included expanded antitrust enforcement; new US Department of Agriculture (USDA) contract regulations requiring poultry ...
James M. MacDonald
wiley   +1 more source