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Gender dynamics in Vietnam’s forage seed system: barriers, opportunities, and empowerment pathways

Development Studies Research
This study focuses on the gendered dynamics within Vietnam's forage seed system, examining how cultural norms, resource access, and market participation influence women's involvement in forage production and adoption.
Mateo Pazos Cárdenas, Sebastián Giraldo Aguirre, Aura María Bravo, Stefan Burkart, Thi Thanh Huyen Le, Thi Thu Hang Dao, Mary Atieno, Natalia Triana Ángel   +7 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Consensus Formation and Change are Enhanced by Neutrality

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Neutral agents are shown to enhance both the formation and overturning of consensus in collective decision‐making. A general mathematical model and experiments with locusts and humans reveal that neutrality enables robust consensus via simple interactions and accelerates consensus change by reducing effective population size.
Andrei Sontag, Janina A. Hoffmann, Tim Rogers, Christian A. Yates   +3 more
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Forages improve livelihoods of smallholder farmers with beef cattle in South Central Coastal Vietnam

Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2013
In South Central Coastal Vietnam, on-farm research and farmer experience demonstrated the benefits of growing improved forages as a means of improving the year-round quantity and quality of feed available for smallholder beef cattle production.
Nguyen Xuan Ba, Peter A. Lane, David Parsons, Nguyen Huu Van, Ho Le Phi Khanh, Jeff P. Corfield, Duong Tri Tuan   +6 more
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Adult Sex Ratio as a Demographic Feedback Linking Mating Systems, Parental Care, and Evolution

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Breeding systems are some of the most diverse social behavior, and our team is investigation the evolutionary causes of this diversity. This review summarises our research carried out at the University of Bath. We argue that demographic components of wild populations, especially the adult sex ratio, plays a key role driving breeding system variation ...
Tamás Székely, Oscar G. Miranda
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the chemical composition of major feed resources between the midland and lowland agro-ecological zones in the Majang zone of southwest Ethiopia

Heliyon
Evaluation of feed chemical composition is essential for predicting nutrient deficiencies and improving feed for optimal livestock productivity. However, variation in agro-ecological zones (AEZs) might affect the chemical composition of feeds.
Shimelis Assefa, Belay Duguma, Zemene Worku   +2 more
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Got forages? Understanding potential returns on investment in Brachiaria spp. for dairy producers in Eastern Africa

Tropical Grasslands-Forrajes Tropicales, 2018
Production of livestock and dairy products in Sub-Saharan Africa struggles to keep pace with growing demand. The potential exists to close this gap in a climate-friendly way through the introduction of improved forage varieties of the Brachiaria genus ...
Ben Schiek, Carlos González, Solomon Mwendia, Steven D. Prager   +3 more
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Intercropping of Echinochloa frumentacea with Leguminous Forages Improves Hay Yields, Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Diversity, and Soil Enzyme Activities in Saline–Alkali Soil

Agronomy, 2023
Soil salinization is detrimental to crop growth, agricultural yields, and environmental protection. Echinochloa frumentacea (Roxb.) Link is a pioneer species for the alteration of saline–alkali lands.
Yunlong Cheng, Xing Xu, Yang Zhang, Xudong Gu, Haojie Nie, Lin Zhu   +5 more
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Breeding strategies for forage and grass improvement [PDF]

Annals of Botany, 2012
Grasslands are a major part of the global ecosystem, and make a significant contribution to food security through providing part of the feed requirement of ruminants for meat and milk production. Breeding has the potential to improve the characteristics of grassland species to withstand adverse environmental conditions and to increase their overall ...
openaire   +1 more source

Iron‐Mediated Release of Aged Dissolved Organic Carbon From Waterlogged Peatland Under Warming

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study conducts a five‐year in situ warming experiment in high‐altitude peatlands to examine dissolved organic carbon (DOC) release. The study shows that warming promotes the release of plant‐derived modern DOC in drained peatlands, but amplifies aquatic export of century‐old DOC from waterlogged peatlands via Fe‐mediated DOC mobilization—a ...
Guohua Dai, Zhiying Yang, Zongguang Liu, Wanjia Hu, Lixiao Ma, Enze Kang, Wanqing Luo, Yunpeng Zhao, Chengzhu Liu, Juan Jia, Ting Liu, Chen He, Quan Shi, Jianliang Liu, Yongheng Gao, Huai Chen, Hailong Zhang, Meixun Zhao, Xiaojuan Feng   +18 more
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