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Adoption of climate‐smart agriculture among smallholder farmers: Does farmer entrepreneurship matter?

, 2021
Climate change poses significant challenges to agriculture, with serious impacts on smallholder farmers’ food security and livelihoods. Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) is being promoted to facilitate climate change adaptation and mitigation.
D. Kangogo, D. Dentoni, J. Bijman
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Volumen de agua disponible para el desove de hembras del camarón marino Penaeus vannamei

AquaTechnica, 2021
Se realizó un ensayo diseñado para evaluar el impacto generado por incrementos del volumen de agua disponible en el área de desoves, en un laboratorio de producción de post larvas del camarón marino Penaeus vannamei.
Alexander Valera-Mejias
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Effect of Feed Supplementation with Bacillus coagulans on Nrf Gene Family Expression in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) under Long-Term Exposure to Cd²⁺

Fishes, 2022
Nuclear factor-E2-related factor (Nrf) belongs to the Cap ‘n’ collar basic leucine zipper (CNC-bZIP) family, which plays an important role in the resistance to oxidative stress in the body.
Zhou Jiang, Xuejun Li, Chuanju Dong
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Farmers' choices and factors affecting adoption of climate change adaptation strategies: evidence from northwestern Ethiopia

Heliyon, 2020
Climate change is a major environmental and socioeconomic challenge in Ethiopia in recent decades. The study site is one of the climate change prone areas affected by climate variability and extreme events.
Mequannt Marie, Fikadu Yirga, M. Haile, Filmon Tquabo   +3 more
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The good, the bad, and the ugly of COP26: A conversation with two food sovereignty activists

Canadian Food Studies, 2022
The 26th UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP (Conference of Parties) took place in Glasgow, Scotland in November 2021 amidst intersecting global crises.
Jessie MacInnis, Roz Corbett, Annette Desmarais   +2 more
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U.S. farmers market attendance and experiences

Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
To provide farmers market leaders and researchers with new insights about farmers market attendees, given shifting consumer preferences and demographics, we conducted a nearly nationally representative survey in the United States.
Laura Witzling, Bret Shaw, Darlene Wolnik   +2 more
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Impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security: Empirical evidence from two states in India

, 2020
In early 2020, the unprecedented nature of COVID-19 prompted India, among many other countries, to put in place stark measures to stem the virus’ spread and the cost of human lives.
F. Ceballos, Samyuktha Kannan, B. Kramer
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Kicking the Habit: What Makes and Breaks Farmers' Intentions to Reduce Pesticide Use?

Ecological Economics, 2021
There is a growing concern in society about the continuing intensive usage of pesticides in farming and its effects on environmental and human health. Insight in the intentions of farmers to reduce pesticide use may help identify pathways towards farming
L. Bakker, J. Sok, W. van der Werf, F. Bianchi   +3 more
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Seroreactivity to Coxiella burnetii in an Agricultural Population and Prevalence of Coxiella burnetii Infection in Ticks of a Non-Endemic Region for Q Fever in South Korea

Pathogens, 2021
Coxiella burnetii infects humans and wild and domesticated animals. Although reported cases on Jeju Island, off the coast of South Korea, are rare, the region is considered to have a high potential for Q fever.
Jeong-Rae Yoo, Mi-Sun Kim, Sang-Taek Heo, Hyun-Joo Oh, Jung-Hwan Oh, Seo-Young Ko, Jeong-Ho Kang, Sung-Kgun Lee, Woo-Seong Jeong, Gil-Myeong Seong, Hyun-Jung Lee, Chul-Hoo Kang, Ji-Hyun Moon, Keun-Hwa Lee, Sung-Wook Song   +14 more
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Community Seed Banks in China: Achievements, Challenges and Prospects

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
The rich agrobiodiversity of China is under unprecedented threat, experiencing a dramatic loss of many valuable local varieties and wild relatives of main crops.
Xin Song, Guanqi Li, Ronnie Vernooy, Yiching Song   +3 more
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