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Kenyan Farmers' Policy Priorities During Economic Crisis and Stability: Insights From a Best‐Worst Scaling Experiment

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia, John Olwande, Jacob Ricker‐Gilbert, David L. Mather, Nicole M. Mason   +4 more
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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
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Mixed irrigation affects the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community

Open Geosciences
Water resource shortage has become an important factor limiting agricultural sustainability in China. In addition, the development and utilization of unconventional water resources are greatly important for alleviating agricultural water resource deficit.
Zhao Jieru, Wang Juan, Cui Bingjian, Zhai Biyu, Hu Chao, Liu Yuan, Xia Lu, Liu Chuncheng, Li Zhongyang   +8 more
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Drought-resistant wheat variety shapes soil fungal communities, enhancing nitrogen use efficiency under drought stress

Agricultural Water Management
Enhancing nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) and crop water productivity (WPc) in drought-resistant wheat under limited irrigation is essential to mitigate water scarcity in the North China Plain (NCP).
Leyan Zhang, Jie Yang, Xin Wang, Jianheng Zhang, Jiaxin Xue, Guiyan Wang, Hongling Qin   +6 more
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Metagenomic analysis of soil and freshwater from zoo agricultural area with organic fertilization. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Microbial communities drive biogeochemical cycles in agricultural areas by decomposing organic materials and converting essential nutrients. Organic amendments improve soil quality by increasing the load of essential nutrients and enhancing the ...
Aylan K Meneghine, Shaun Nielsen, Alessandro M Varani, Torsten Thomas, Lucia Maria Carareto Alves   +4 more
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Implications Of Bulk Water Transfer On Local Water Management Institutions: A Case Study of the Melamchi Water Supply Project in Nepal [PDF]

, 2008
To mitigate a drinking water crisis in Kathmandu valley, the Government of Nepal initiated the Melamchi Water Supply Project in 1997, which will divert water from the Melamchi River to Kathmandu city's water supply network.
Dhruba Pant, Govinda Basnet, Madhusudan Bhattarai   +2 more
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Generative Artificial Intelligence Shaping the Future of Agri‐Food Innovation

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Emerging use cases of generative artificial intelligence in agri‐food innovation. ABSTRACT The recent surge in generative artificial intelligence (AI), typified by models such as GPT, diffusion models, and large vision‐language architectures, has begun to influence the agri‐food sector.
Jun‐Li Xu, Dimitrios Argyropoulos, Tamíris da Costa   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Village Community and Regulation of Irrigation

Japanese Sociological Review, 1953
The economic structure of a feudal society is built on the communal organization of production. Roughly speaking, this organization is divided into village and urban communities, but, logically and historically, the former is the origin of such organization. In Japan, tribe, kumi and family have been studied particularly by sociologists. The problem of
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Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reuse of Reclaimed Wastewater Through Irrigation for Ohio Communities [PDF]

, 1997
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Mancl, Karen M., Rector, Don
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