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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
wiley   +1 more source

Food Security Strategy, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Food Import Sensitivity in Qatar

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Qatar has limited agricultural land and water resources and therefore remains highly dependent on food imports. This structural dependency makes Qatar vulnerable to external shocks such as the recent Gulf crisis, threatening food security and disrupting global supply chains. In response to previous shocks, Qatar started implementing a National
Hansini Ranjan, Simeon Kaitibie, Alanoud Ali S. Al‐Maadid, John N. Ng'ombe, Ishrat Hossain, Mostafizur Rahman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Drought Exposure and Dynamic Input Adjustment in North Central U.S. Agriculture

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether realized extreme drought episodes affect the speed of adjustment of derived input demands and output supplies toward their long‐run equilibrium in U.S. agriculture, focusing on states in the North Central Region.
Victor H. Lana Pinto, Lilyan E. Fulginiti, Richard K. Perrin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Geospatial analysis of human-elephant conflict zones in the Jeli District: implications for mitigation and land-use planning. [PDF]

Environ Monit Assess
Husain H, Nor ANM, Abas MA, Amir A, Rafaai NH, Jaafar SB, Rosdi A, Ahmad FN, Atan FM, Kasim AS, Mahmud H, Saaban S, Hambali K.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Coastal land use planning in Ben Tre, Vietnam: constraints and recommendations. [PDF]

Heliyon, 2019
Nguyen TP, Parnell KE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Stochastic Locomotion Emerging From Body–Environment Interactions in a Mexican Jumping Bean–Inspired Robot

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Inspired by the Mexican jumping bean, this study presents a centimeter‐scale, electronics‐free robot that merges principles from both the animal and plant kingdoms. A thermo‐responsive actuator mimicking larval motion, enclosed within a uniquely shaped plant‐seed‐inspired shell, generates jumping, rolling, flipping, sliding, and climbing through ...
Ragesh Chellattoan, Alessio Mondini, Edoardo Sinibaldi, Barbara Mazzolai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Neglect of restoration zones in land use planning is evident from soil erodibility in the downstream of the Hirmand watershed. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Barichi Z, Erfani M, Ebrahimi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Distributed State Estimation for Mobile Robots in LiDAR Sensor Networks With Intermittent Inertial Measurements

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A scalable distributed observer framework for LiDAR sensor networks is presented for robust tracking and pose estimation of mobile robots. By combining adaptable 3D detection, clustering‐based communication reduction, and intermittent inertial fusion, accurate and efficient estimation is achieved under occlusions and sensing constraints, with formally ...
Isabella Luppi, Ehsan Hashemi
wiley   +1 more source

Village land governance: Compliance with village land-use planning in selected communities in Tanzania. [PDF]

Heliyon
Nyamhanga PJ, Malisa ET, Kabote SJ.
europepmc   +1 more source

Developing China's Ecological Redline Policy using ecosystem services assessments for land use planning. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2018
Bai Y, Wong CP, Jiang B, Hughes AC, Wang M, Wang Q.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source