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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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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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Food Policy, 2018 Africa south of the Sahara experienced an acceleration of economic growth in recent years that was accompanied by structural changes in national economies.
O. Ecker
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Diversified agriculture leads to diversified diets: panel data evidence from Bangladesh
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 This study used a panel data model to examine the relationship between agricultural diversification and dietary diversity of farm households across three waves of nationally representative Bangladesh Integrated Household Survey data (BIHS- 2011-12, 2015,
Tamanna Mastura +6 more
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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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Production Diversity and Socioeconomic Characteristics of Household Farms
Journal of Agricultural Science, 2016 The level of production diversity chosen by small household farms may not be optimal from a social perspective, due to the existence of market failures such as environmental externalities or barriers to credit. Public policies designed to stimulate more diversified crops are supposed to correct that inefficiency.
Regina Helena Rosa Sambuichi +3 more
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Does adoption of agroforestry increase farm production and dietary diversity in the hills of Nepal?
, 2021 Received: 22 April 2021 Revised received: 05 June 2021 Accepted: 21 June 2021 There are few studies on the influence of agroforestry intervention in the farming and food system.
Kanchan Kattel, R. Byanju, Kishor Atreya
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, 2011 An Organic Research Centre project is examining how diversity-based tools can assist in the on-farm improvement of organic wheat. Successful organic crop production requires varieties that are resistant to diseases, competitive against weeds, and ...
Crowley, Oliver +2 more
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2020 Animal production systems (APSs) have long been transformed through intensification, specialization and geographical concentration, leading them to become major anthropogenic drivers of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss.
Bertrand Dumont +8 more
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Agricultural production diversity and child nutrition in Ethiopia
Food Security, 2021 This study investigates how two aspects of agricultural production diversity – farm production diversity and composition of production – relate to child height-for-age and weight-for-height in Ethiopia.
Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, K. Grace
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