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Women's work in the economy of the Cocoa belt: a comparison [PDF]

open access: yes, 1978
African Studies Center Working Paper No. 7This paper is an empirical study of the cultural context and historical development of the division of labor by sex in two farming systems of the West African cocoa belt: the Yoruba of Western Nigeria and the ...
Guyer, Jane I.
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After Chipko: from environment to region in Uttaranchal [PDF]

open access: yes, 1998
Although the Chipko movement is practically non-existent in its region of origin it remains one of the most frequently deployed examples of an environmental and/or a women's movement in the South.
Mawdsley, Emma
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Long‐Tea‐CLIP: An Expert‐Level Multimodal AI Framework for Fine‐Grained Green Tea Grading Across Five Sensory Dimensions

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Long‐Tea‐CLIP (Contrastive Language‐Image Pre‐training) presents a multimodal AI framework that integrates visual, metabolomic, and sensory knowledge to grade green tea across appearance, soup color, aroma, taste, and infused leaf. By combining expert‐guided modeling with CLIP‐supervised learning, the system delivers fine‐grained quality evaluation and
Yanqun Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Forest Sector’s Contribution to the Economy and Welfare of the Population in the Russian Far East

open access: yesProstranstvennaâ Èkonomika, 2006
The forest complex is an important sector in the economy of subjects of the Russian Federation comprising the southern part of the Russian Far East (RFE), it has a subsidiary function in the economy of its northern part.
Alexander Solomonovich Sheingauz   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Forestry Economics: Principles and Practice [PDF]

open access: yes
This review discusses bioeconomic models of the forest and uses them to explore policy options for forest management. The main type of bioeconomic model used is based on a biomass model of the growth of the forest, similar to the biomass model widely ...
Prof. Harry F. Campbell
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Hijacking the Host Clock: A Nematode Effector Antagonizes Soybean Circadian Defense and Translation Control

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Soybean employs its circadian clock, governed by GmCCA1, to rhythmically defend against soybean cyst nematodes. The pathogen retaliates by secreting the effector Hg4E02, which hijacks the clock to suppress defense and co‐opt the host's translation machinery for nutrient acquisition.
Xingwei Wang   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the forest-related sector to the Indonesian Economy: SAM Multiplier Analysis 1985-2008

open access: yesOpen Agriculture, 2018
Indonesia is now the country with the highest deforestation rate in the world, and due to the high rate of associated land use change, Indonesia has also become one of the biggest greenhouse gas emitters in the world.
Malahayati Marissa
doaj   +1 more source

Guidelines on sustainable forest management in drylands of Ethiopia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
About 80% of forests in Ethiopia are dry forest. For the last 20 years they have been subject to land use changes, and replaced by agricultural land and settlements.
Atmadja, Stibniati   +2 more
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Plant Genetic Engineering: Technological Pathways, Application Scenarios, and Future Directions

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review maps the fast‐evolving landscape of plant genetic engineering, linking enabling platforms with trait‐focused applications in architecture optimization, stress resilience, yield improvement, and quality enhancement. It highlights how genome editing, transgenic strategies, and emerging multi‐gene approaches reshape breeding pipelines, while ...
Peilin Wang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source?

open access: yesRevue de Géographie Alpine, 2012
With the agricultural economy of the Central Pyrenees in steady decline, natural forest stands are colonising abandoned agricultural meadows. The present study seeks to define the economic conditions for a new fuel-wood local economy based on these ...
Bernard Elyakime   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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