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Livelihood Diversification as an Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change and Household Food Security of Livestock Holders in Pakistan

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rural farm households continue to face significant risks from climate change, resulting in many of them diversifying their livelihood sources into other income‐generating activities to increase their incomes and improve food and nutrition security. In this study, we examine the drivers and impact of farm households' participation in livelihood
Mahwish Arshad, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Livestock identification and traceability systems in the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) region: Proceedings of a regional workshop, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4-5 February 2014 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Livestock identification and traceability systems (LITS) enhance livestock production and trade by enabling improved surveillance and management of infectious diseases, control of livestock movement and effective delineation of production systems through
International Livestock Research Institute
core  

Ferritin-based nanoparticle vaccine protects neonatal piglets against porcine epidemic diarrhea virus challenge following immunization of pregnant sows

open access: yesVeterinary Research
Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is an enteropathogenic coronavirus that causes severe diarrhea and high mortality in neonatal piglets, resulting in significant economic losses to the pig industry worldwide.
Yangkun Liu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

Consumer preferences and demand for livestock products in urban Bangladesh [PDF]

open access: yes
Also available in the ILRI Repository on Livestock Research at http://hdl.handle.net/10568/3009demand, quality, safety, livestock products, Bangladesh, Consumer/Household Economics, Livestock Production/Industries,
Jabbar, Mohammad A., Islam, S.M. Fakhrul
core   +1 more source

Robust Representation Learning for Clean Feature Discovery in Incomplete Multi‐View Clustering

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Robust feature discovery in incomplete multi‐view clustering is achieved by coupling RPCA‐based clean representation recovery with neural‐network‐assisted graph learning. The resulting RIMVC framework constructs cleaner and more discriminative graph‐structured representations from incomplete and noisy multi‐view data, improving clustering robustness ...
Ping Hu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Linking smallholders to emerging markets for livestock products: research and development opportunities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The livestock revolution presents new and expanding opportunities for smallholder livestock producers. The increasing demand for livestock products in South-East Asia presents expanding market opportunities for livestock producers, particularly for ...
Ehui, Simeon K.   +2 more
core  

Uncovering renewable energy policy impact channels on land values, the local farm structure, and farmland heterogeneity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Germany's Renewable Energy Sources Act (REA), enacted in 2000 and subsequently amended, subsidized national renewable energy production with fixed feed‐in tariffs for renewable energy sources (RE) from wind, solar, and biogas. Empirical studies suggest that the policy was creating windfall effects for landowners and attribute farmland use ...
Lars Isenhardt   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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