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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
wiley   +1 more source

Comparative analysis of lightning activity characteristics during two rainfall/snowfall and freezing events in China in February 2024

暴雨灾害
Southern China encountered two rounds of rainfall/snowfall and freezing weather accompanied by intensive lightning flashes from January 31 to February 5 and February 18-25,2024 (hereinafter referred to as "0131" and "0218" events,respectively).
Guoying TANG, Fengquan LI, Rong WAN, Yonglan Tang, Li MA, Shanshan LI   +5 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances and prospects in reconstruction approaches for snow cover mapping using polar-orbiting satellites

Frontiers in Earth Science
Snow cover is recognized as one of the most variable land cover parameters and plays a critical role in the global energy balance, climate change, and hydrological processes.
Jun Zhang, Xiaoyue Zeng, Xiaoyue Zeng, Xiaoyue Zeng, Jun Wan, Jun Wan, Jun Wan, Jinghui Liu, Jinghui Liu, Jinghui Liu, Zhihong Xia, Zhihong Xia, Zhihong Xia   +12 more
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Evolution Characteristics of Compound Extreme Climate Events in the Yangtze River Basin from 1961 to 2022 [PDF]

长江科学院院报
[Objective] Global warming has exacerbated extreme climate events and their compound hazards, causing increasingly severe impacts on both ecological environments and socioeconomic systems.
XIA Zhi-hong, CHEN Xiao-xiao
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An observational study of the effects of aerosols on diurnal variation of heavy rainfall and associated clouds over Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei

, 2020
. Our previous study found that the observed rainfall diurnal variation over Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei shows the distinct signature of the effects of pollutants.
Siyuan Zhou, Jing Yang, Wei‐Chyung Wang, Chuanfeng Zhao, D. Gong, P. Shi   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Frequency Trend Analysis of Heavy Rainfall Days for Germany

Water, 2020
Climate change is expected to affect the occurrence of heavy rainfall. We analyzed trends of heavy rainfall days for the last decades in Germany. For all available stations with daily data, days exceeding daily thresholds (10, 20, 30 mm) were counted ...
D. Deumlich, A. Gericke
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation of heavy rainfall over Mumbai on 26 july 2005 using high resolution icosahedral gridpoint model GME [PDF]

, 2011
In this paper an attempt has been made to simulate the exceptionally heavy rainfall event over Mumbai (Bombay) on 26 July 2005. Santa Cruz observatory near the International Airport of Mumbai recorded 944.2 mm of rainfall between 0300 UTC of 26 July 2005
Chaudhari, HS, Kumkar, Y, Oh, J-H, Sen, PN   +3 more
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A thermodynamical model for rainfall-triggered volcanic dome collapse [PDF]

, 2004
Dome-forming volcanic eruptions typically involve the slow extrusion of viscous lava onto a steep-sided volcano punctuated by collapse and the generation of hazardous pyroclastic flows.
Adrian J. Matthews, Barclay, Calder, Carn, Couch, Dzurisin, Jenni Barclay, Kesthelyi, Mastin, Matthews, Melnik, Oppenheimer, Sparks, Spera, Watts   +14 more
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