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Low-dose alum application trialled as a management tool for internal nutrient loads in Lake Okaro, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2008 Aluminium sulfate (alum) was applied to Lake Okaro, a eutrophic New Zealand lake with recurrent cyanobacterial blooms, to evaluate its suitability for reducing trophic status and bloom frequency.
Gibbs, Max M. +2 more
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse +2 more
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Inheritance after Apocalypse: the Dystopian Environment
Altre Modernità, 2013 Utopias are perfect places but the term itself says that they are nowhere to be found, making them practically impossible. Dystopias, even if they are written as a warning of how things can get worse, seem much more probable.
Serban Dan Blidariu
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Valuing trout angling benefits of water quality improvements while accounting for unobserved lake characteristics: An application to the Rotorua Lakes [PDF]
, 2011 Trout angling is one of the most popular water-based recreational activities in the Rotorua Lakes. Despite the high demand for trout angling and other recreational purposes, water quality in some of these lakes has been declining over the past decades ...
Marsh, Dan, Mkwara, Lena
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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PERMUKIMAN EMPLASEMEN PERKEBUNAN BATULAWANG DI AFDELING LEMAHNEUNDEUT DI CIAMIS, JAWA BARAT
Pubawidya: Jurnal Penelitian dan Pengembangan Arkeologi, 2016 Emplacement settlement of Batulawang Plantation in Afdeeling Lemahneundeut give an idea of the structure of the plantation community in 19th-20th century in Ciamis, West Java. It is reflected from the colonial building housing estates on the emplacement,
Lia Nuralia
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The Iowa Review, 1979 MARGARET HAD BEEN working nine months at the New Life Food Cooperative when her husband came back to town. She hadn't been expect ing him; she had been trying not to expect anything from anyone. Sim plicity was her desire now: to care for her two children, to get enough sleep, to pay the rent. Her present life was such a surprise to her, so unimagined,
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The effects of climate change and variation in New Zealand: An assessment using the CLIMPACTS system [PDF]
, 2001 Along with a need to better understand the climate and biophysical systems of New Zealand, the need to develop an improved capacity for evaluating possible changes in climate and their effects on the New Zealand environment has been recognised. Since the
Harman, J.J. +2 more
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Agribusiness, 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
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Coping with the work constraints in crop-livestock farming systems
Annals of Agricultural Sciences, 2017 This research aims to characterize the ways crop-livestock farms adapt themselves to work constraints. A follow-up of work activities was achieved in a sample of 14 family farms.
Mohamed Taher Sraïri, Youssra Ghabiyel
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