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Comprehensive Shotgun Metagenomic Profiling of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Sheep and Goat Farming Environments. [PDF]

open access: yesAntibiotics (Basel)
Gomes-Gonçalves S   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Farm production diversity and its association with dietary diversity in Kenya

Food Security, 2020
Agriculture has the potential to improve dietary diversity through farm production diversity if farming households consume what they produce. However, the linkages between a household’s own agricultural production and dietary diversity are not well understood.
Rose Nyikal
exaly   +2 more sources

Farm-Diversity Management for Sustainable Production Systems

The Anthropocene: Politik - Economics - Society - Science, 2019
Diversity at farm level spreads the risk of uncertainties of climate and market, aids efficient use of available resources and additionally increases farm output by enhancing soil health, pollination and minimising pests and diseases. Thus it has multiple benefits but needs intelligent integration of all the components of diversity at all the input and
exaly   +2 more sources

Farm Production Diversity and Dietary Diversity in Developing Countries

2015
A revised version of this paper was published as: Sibhatu, K.T., V. Krishna, M. Qaim (2015). Production diversity and dietary diversity in smallholder farm households. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS) 112: 10657-10662. (available open access under: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/34/10657.abstract)
Sibhatu, Kibrom T.   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

RETAIL-FARM PRICE MARGINS AND CONSUMER PRODUCT DIVERSITY

2002
This bulletin provides an alternative approach for computing retail-farm price margins. Current published estimates of retail-farm price margins are calculated assuming that food markets are comprised of identical firms producing, in fixed-factor proportions, a homogeneous set of final food products.
Reed, A.J.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Livelihoods and production diversity on U.S. permaculture farms

Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 2017
ABSTRACTPermaculture is an international grassroots movement with a focus on diversified farming systems (DFS). We visited 36 self-identified permaculture farms in the continental United States and gathered multidimensional data on the distribution of labor and income across enterprises and seasons, along with sociodemographic information and farm ...
Rafter Sass Ferguson   +1 more
openaire   +1 more source

Significance of Genetic Diversity in Farm Animal Production.

2016
Genetic diversity (GD) refers to the variety of genes within a species. In order to preserve GD within a species, different populations must be sustained. GD allows livestock species for adaptation to changes in environmental conditions over time and is, consequently, essential to species survival. Unfortunately, GD in livestockis threatened by various
KOYUN, Hasan   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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