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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

An Updated and Comprehensive Review of <i>Phellodendri amurensis</i> Cortex: Ethnobotany, Geographical Distribution, Phytochemistry, Quality Control, and Pharmacology. [PDF]

Molecules
Li K, Song C, Tan X, Zhang Y, Zang H, Zhu X.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Geographical distribution of ALDH2 rs671 polymorphism in Chinese angina pectoris patients. [PDF]

Front Genet
Dong W, Yu J, Xu S, Li H.
europepmc   +1 more source

Ban Glyphosate—Does It Affect the Swedish Farmers' Willingness to Grow Cover Crops?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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, Anna Kristina Edenbrandt, Elin Röös   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reptilia, Chelidae, Acanthochelys macrocephala: distribution, habitat, and geographical distribution map

Check List, 2006
Campos, A. L. C., Landgref-Filho, P., Ávila, R. W., Souza, F. L.   +3 more
doaj  

Assessing climate change impacts on the geographical distribution of Cupressus sempervirens in the Mediterranean region. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Behroozian M, Amini T, Zare H, Ejtehadi H.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
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, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geographical Distribution Of Foreign Communities In Italy

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana, 2010
Raffaele Ferrara, Linda Forcellati, Salvatore Strozza   +2 more
doaj  

Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on the Potential Geographical Distribution of <i>Lycium ruthenicum</i> in China. [PDF]

Biology (Basel)
Li C, Gu Y, Liu B, Chun KP, Octavianti T, Tan ML, Wu Y, Zhong L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source