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Food Production and Consumption in Ordos of Inner Mongolia

Foods, 2023
Ordos is an ecological fragile area in the upstream and midstream of the Yellow River and a component of the ecological security barrier on the northern frontier of China. With population growth in recent years, the contradiction between human beings and
Yexuan Liu, Lin Zhen, Yunfeng Hu
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Assessing land use change from food croplands to rubber in Ghana's Ellembelle district: Implications for food self-sufficiency

Scientific African
There is evidence that cocoa and cashew farmers are targeting croplands for expansion, reducing cropland areas with negative implications for food self-sufficiency in Ghana. However, research on the dynamics of rubber expansion and its possible impact on
George Ashiagbor, Victor Quarshie, Sandra Sawdiatu Inusah, Isaac Stanisluv Essah, Sinka Khadijah Abubakar, Erasmus Narteh Tetteh, Winston Adams Asante   +6 more
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Potential factors in determining cross-border price spillovers in the pork sector: Evidence from net pork-importing countries

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022
Although food self-sufficiency is regarded as a potent strategy to secure food supply in the policy circle, the efficacy of policy measures, especially in terms of their quantitative effects, is still not fully understood.
Jin Guo, Tetsuji Tanaka
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Study on soybean potential productivity and food security in China under the influence of COVID-19 outbreak

Geography and Sustainability, 2020
The COVID-19 outbreak that became a global pandemic in early 2020 is starting to affect agricultural supply chains and leading to a rapid rise in global food prices. As many grain exporting countries announced a ban on grain exports, food security issues
Huizong Yao, Xiaoxing Zuo, Daxing Zuo, Han Lin, Ximeng Huang, Chuanfu Zang   +5 more
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The importance of the traditional milpa in food security and nutritional self-sufficiency in the highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Around 30% of global food is produced by smallholder farmers, yet they constitute the most food-insecure group. In Mexico, food self-sufficiency is declining.
Ivan P Novotny, Pablo Tittonell, Mariela H Fuentes-Ponce, Santiago López-Ridaura, Walter A H Rossing   +4 more
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Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
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LEVEL OF FOOD SELF-SUFFICIENCY AS CRITERION FOR PERFORMING PRODUCTION FUNCTIONBY RURAL TERRITORIES OF THE KEMEROVO REGION [PDF]

Техника и технология пищевых производств, 2016
To date the prior task of the region economy in the field of agribusiness development is an accelerated import substitution through the creation of conditions for accelerated growth in the volume of own production.
Kolesnikova E.G. , Chekmeneva T.D.
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Modelling stem cell differentiation related processes—A practical overview for biologists

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Stem cell differentiation is complex and difficult to control experimentally. This review introduces suitable computational modelling approaches that can support stem cell research, from mechanistic ODE and abstract models to multiscale and deep learning methods.
Ricco Zeegelaar, Xinqi Yan, Lucas Jansen Klomp, Stefano Schivo, Janine N. Post   +4 more
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Changes in Self-Sufficiency in Beef and Pork in Selected Central and Eastern Europe Markets

Problemy Zarządzania, 2019
Food self-sufficiency is considered a priority for modern economies. The meat market is among the most developed food markets in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
Sebastian Kubala
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Reconstructing enzyme evolution by protein engineering

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Natural enzyme evolution can be retraced by protein engineering methods such as directed evolution, rational design, and ancestral sequence reconstruction. These approaches reveal how enzymes emerged from ligand‐binding scaffolds, developed varying substrate preferences, formed oligomeric complexes, adapted to environmental changes, and evolved novel ...
Lukas Drexler, Markus R. Busch, Reinhard Sterner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source