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Agriculture (Switzerland)The Ifugao Rice Terraces have been the Philippines’ first and only Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) since 2011. More than a decade later, this study assesses whether Ifugao farmers find this designation beneficial and if it ...
Keshav Lall Maharjan +2 more
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Evolutionary origins of taro (Colocasia esculenta) in Southeast Asia. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2020 As an ancient clonal root and leaf crop, taro (Colocasia esculenta, Araceae) is highly polymorphic with uncertain genetic and geographic origins. We explored chloroplast DNA variation in wild and cultivated taros and other Colocasia species and found cultivated taro to be polyphyletic, with tropical and temperate clades originating in Southeast Asia. A
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Are famine food plants also ethnomedicinal plants? An ethnomedicinal appraisal of famine food plants of two districts of bangladesh. [PDF]
Evid Based Complement Alternat Med, 2014 Plants have served as sources of food and medicines for human beings since their advent. During famines or conditions of food scarcity, people throughout the world depend on unconventional plant items to satiate their hunger and meet their nutritional needs. Malnourished people often suffer from various diseases, much more than people eating a balanced
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Agriculture (Switzerland)This study investigates the continuation of Environmental Conservation Agriculture (ECA) practices among farmers in the Ifugao Rice Terraces, a Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) in the Philippines.
Keshav Lall Maharjan, Clarisse Gonzalvo
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Revue d'ethnoécologie, 2021 Harold C. Conklin (1926-2016) is without doubt one of the key figures in ethnobotany and environmental anthropology. His work is admired for, among other qualities, its precision and its level of « fine description ».
Gerard A. Persoon +2 more
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Landscape heterogeneity filters functional traits of rice arthropods in tropical agroecosystems
Ecological Applications, Volume 32, Issue 3, April 2022., 2022 Abstract Biological control services of agroecosystems depend on the functional diversity of species traits. However, the relationship between arthropod traits and landscape heterogeneity is still poorly understood, especially in tropical rice agroecosystems, which harbor a high diversity of often specialized species.
Christophe Dominik +4 more
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Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children
Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 63, Issue 6, September 2021., 2021 Abstract Biparental care is a hallmark of human social organization, though paternal investment varies between and within societies. The facultative nature of paternal care in humans suggests males should invest when their care improves child survival and/or quality, though testing this prediction can be challenging because of the difficulties of ...
K. E. Starkweather +5 more
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International Journal of Agriculture System, 2017 This article is based on the study which investigated the socioeconomic and biophysical conditions of the upland farming communities in the Philippines; identified the development pathways that were undertaken by the upland farmers; and determined level ...
Leila Dimayuga Landicho +4 more
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Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 438-465, September 2026.This paper examines how the politics of water governance intersected with germ suppression during US colonial rule in the Philippines. Drawing on historical materials and policy documents, we critically trace two interrelated processes of hydroterritorialization through which cholera outbreaks in the early 1900s spurred the production of sanitary ...
Rhomir S. Yanquiling +2 more
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Pest Management Science, Volume 80, Issue 11, Page 5574-5583, November 2024.Meta‐analysis of trapping data from southeast Asia show no regular multi‐annual patterns in rodent populations in rice fields. Population of both Rattus argentiventer and Rattus tanezumi respond to rainfall patterns. Certain combinations of rainfall parameters could help to predict years when there is higher rodent abundance in rice fields.
Nyo Me Htwe +7 more
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