ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
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Evaluating Fishing Ban Effectiveness Through Spatiotemporal Changes in Genetic Diversity of <i>Parabramis pekinensis</i>. [PDF]
Wang Z +8 more
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Mapping urban childscapes : the imaginary geographies of contemporary North American picture books
Naomi Hamer
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Sacred space in motion: geography, time, and texts in the historiography of Lingyan Temple. [PDF]
Han B, Liu Y.
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Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?
ABSTRACT The cultivation of cover crops is one of the new Eco‐scheme practices introduced in Sweden. This study examines how the design of policy attributes of these schemes influences farmers' willingness to grow cover crops on arable land, with particular focus on the potential impact of a glyphosate ban.
Vivian Wei Huang +2 more
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EdgeGeoDiff: A Novel Two-Stage Diffusion Approach for Precipitation Downscaling with Edge Details and Geographical Priors. [PDF]
Zhang S, Zhang C, Wu T, Zou T, Dong Y.
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Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava +2 more
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Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography, Third Edition
Mirela Paraschiv
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