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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

open access: yesApplied 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
wiley   +1 more source

ANALYSIS OF RICE PRODUCTION APPROACH TO COBB DOUGLAS PRODUCTION FUNCTION IN TAMBAKDAHAN SUB-DISTRICT SUBANG DISTRICT

open access: yesAGRISE, 2022
Rice production is still the primary source of livelihood for rural communities in Tambakdahan Sub-district, Subang Regency. One harvest of every hectare can produce an average rice production of 8.5 to 9 tons.
Tete Saepudin, Anita Amalia
doaj   +1 more source

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The transformation of irrigation boards into water user associations in South Africa. Volume 2, case studies of the Umlaas, Komati, Lomati and herford irrigation boards [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
In South Africa, the 1998 National Water Act launched an in-depth reform of water resource management. At the local level, all the Irrigation Boards (IBs), which used to be managed by large-scale farmers, are to be transformed into Water User ...
Faysse, Nicolas, Gumbo, Jabulani
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mixed irrigation affects the composition and diversity of the soil bacterial community

open access: yesOpen 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   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought-resistant wheat variety shapes soil fungal communities, enhancing nitrogen use efficiency under drought stress

open access: yesAgricultural 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   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Village Community and Regulation of Irrigation

open access: yesJapanese 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
openaire   +2 more sources

Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time, including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well as rapid increases in the number of people at risk of ...
United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
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