Characterization of epipedons in soils of varying parent materials under cocoa plantation
Epipedons type and thickness affect the properties and productivity of soils. Therefore, the study was carried out at the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching and Research Farm, Nigeria, to assess the influence of vegetation on epipedon characteristics in
Julius Olayinka Ojetade+4 more
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Household determinants of continued adoption of sustainable land management measures in central Ethiopia. [PDF]
Alemu T, Tolossa D, Senbeta F, Zeleke T.
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Collaborative Landscape Planning: Co-Design of Ecosystem-Based Land Management Scenarios
Land management in coastal areas has to cope with impacts of climate change and sea level rise. In Germany, landscape plans assess and organize the spatial allocation of land use as an environmental contribution to general spatial planning. Collaborative
L. Karrasch+3 more
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Abstract We present an adjusted bid price mechanism that incorporates economic multiplier effects in public food procurement decision making. Under Input–Output model assumptions, the algorithm estimates enhanced tax revenues to state governments through multiplier effects associated with in‐state supplier purchasing.
Todd M. Schmit, Xiaoyan Liu
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Sustainability challenges in the multi-tier crop agri-food sector: a systematic review
This systematic review identifies the potential sustainability challenges lower-tier suppliers and buying firms face in multi-tier crop agri-food supply chains.
Muhammad Khan+3 more
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Water in urban planning, Salt Creek Basin, Illinois water management as related to alternative land-use practices [PDF]
Andrew Maute Spieker
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Abstract This paper employs machine learning to determine which preferential trade agreement (PTA) provisions are relevant to agricultural trade patterns and the factors that may influence their adoption. Utilizing the three‐way gravity model, we apply plug‐in Lasso regularized regression to pinpoint predictive PTA provisions for agricultural trade ...
Stepan Gordeev+3 more
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A Holistic Analysis of Food Security Situation of Households Engaged in Land Certification and Sustainable Land Management Programs: South Wello, Ethiopia. [PDF]
Tesfaye B+3 more
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King and Cochrane: The technological treadmill and racial inequity in US agriculture
Abstract Between 1920 and 1969, the number of Black farmers in the US decreased from 14% of all operators to 4%. Using Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of agricultural policy and Willard Cochrane's theory of the technological treadmill, we explore how racial discrimination was linked to policies that led to structural change in US agriculture.
Jared Hutchins, Jacopo De Marinis
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Runoff, sediment, organic carbon, and nutrient loads from a Canadian prairie micro-watershed under climate variability and land management practices. [PDF]
Liu Y+4 more
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