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Occurrence of Eimeria species parasites on small-scale commercial chicken farms in Africa and indication of economic profitability. [PDF]
, 2013 Small-scale commercial poultry production is emerging as an important form of livestock production in Africa, providing sources of income and animal protein to many poor households, yet the occurrence and impact of coccidiosis on this relatively new ...
Accra Vet Lab, Accra, Ghana +13 more
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Regional Farm Diversity Can Reduce Vulnerability of Food Production to Climate Change
Ecology and Society, 2008 Food production must adapt in the face of climate change. In Europe, projected vulnerability of food production to climate change is particularly high in Mediterranean regions.
Pytrik Reidsma, Frank Ewert
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Smart Agricultural Technology, 2023 Inadequate micronutrient diversity in diets remains a serious cause of malnutrition which is prevalent in rural areas especially in developing countries. The current study proposed a decision support algorithm for nutrition-sensitive vegetable production
Aniket Deo +2 more
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Animals, 2020 This study analyzed the interrelationships between participation in MFRMs and dietary diversity of poultry farming households in Southeast Nigeria. We used cross-sectional data from poultry farmers in Southeast Nigeria and employed instrumental variable ...
Robert Ugochukwu Onyeneke +10 more
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Soil Health and Biodiversity Is Driven by Intensity of Organic Farming in Canada
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022 Organic farming is continuing to expand in Canada, with close to 6,000 producers farming over 2% of all agricultural land. There is insufficient evidence, however, of a trend toward larger average farm size and increasing specialization by these organic ...
Derek Henry Lynch
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Three Decades of Changes in Brazilian Municipalities and Their Food Production Systems
Land, 2020 Agricultural systems are heterogeneous across temporal and spatial scales. Although much research has investigated farm size and economic output, the synergies and trade-offs across various agricultural and socioeconomic variables are unclear. This study
Ramon Felipe Bicudo da Silva +6 more
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Agriculture, 2021 Indicators of agricultural production diversity and market access and/or participation have often been used to try to understand how agricultural production and markets influence dietary diversity of rural smallholder households.
Eric O. Verger +4 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 Production risk and market access put pressure on agricultural household production and food consumption decisions. Improving market access and promoting production diversity have been proposed as solutions to better agricultural household nutritional outcomes.
Keenan, M.R. +3 more
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Environmental impact of organic agriculture in temperate regions [PDF]
, 2012 Can organic agriculture elaborate a scientifically based, resource-efficien and agroecological approach to low-input farm management? This review examines the literature from temperate regions, with a particular emphasison Canadian and USstudies that ...
Bhatta, G.D., Halberg, N., Lynch, D.H.
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Metagenomics reveals novel microbial signatures of farm exposures in house dust
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Indoor home dust microbial communities, important contributors to human health, are shaped by environmental factors, including farm-related exposures. Advanced metagenomic whole genome shotgun sequencing (WGS) improves detection and characterization of ...
Ziyue Wang +13 more
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