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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Over the past two decades, agricultural restructuring in Vietnam — driven by land consolidation, crop diversification and modernization — has shifted farming from labour‐intensive to capital‐intensive production. This article argues that agrarian change in Vietnam has not simply resulted in the marginalization of women, a finding that ...
Nga Dao, Quang Phung
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Irrigated rice area estimation using remote sensing techniques: Project's proposal and preliminary results [PDF]
The development of a methodology for annual estimates of irrigated rice crop in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, using remote sensing techniques is proposed. The project involves interpretation, digital analysis, and sampling techniques of LANDSAT
Deassuncao, G. V. +3 more
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Land Reforms in Cuba: First Empirical Assessment on Productivity Using Crop‐Level Panel Data
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Land reforms implemented in Cuba since 2008 have aimed to increase agricultural production by distributing state‐owned idle lands with land‐use rights. The reforms restricted farmers with the rights from cultivating perennial and capital‐intensive crops.
Yoshihiko Hashiguchi +1 more
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Water-wise Rice Production [PDF]
Rice is a profligate user of water. It takes 3,000–5,000 liters to produce 1 kilogram of rice, which is about 2 to 3 times more than to produce 1 kilogram of other cereals such as wheat or maize.
Bindraban, P.S. +5 more
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Water for Forest: Potential impact of alternative land setaside programs at village and farm levels in the mountainous areas of Vietnam [PDF]
, 2010 The uplands of Northern Vietnam, often having low agricultural productivity, are home to the poorest of the rural poor. The ecosystem services such as food production for marginalized populations, biodiversity reservoirs, and watershed regulating ...
Boere, Esther +5 more
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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Community-based fish culture in seasonal floodplains [PDF]
, 2006 During the rainy season in extensive river floodplains and deltaic lowlands, floods render the land unavailable for crop production for several months each year. These waters are considerably underutilized in terms of managed aquatic productivity.
Dey, M.M., Prein, M.
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The Geographical Journal, EarlyView.Short Abstract Risks to soil health from increased flooding and drought due to climate change are a priority risk area for the UK government, but our analysis of two years of UK newspaper coverage on this issue reveals very little attention to it. Our multimodal framing analysis shows that news reports are largely devoid of addressing the root causes ...
Antal Wozniak, Jill E. Hopke
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Breeding 5.0: Artificial intelligence (AI)‐decoded germplasm for accelerated crop innovation
Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Crop breeding technologies are vital for global food security. While traditional methods have improved yield, stress tolerance, and nutrition, rising challenges such as climate instability, land loss, and pest pressure now demand new solutions.
Jiayi Fu +4 more
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Pesticides Decrease Bacterial Diversity and Abundance of Irrigated Rice Fields. [PDF]
Microorganisms, 2020 Onwona-Kwakye M +6 more
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