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Deforestation and Efficiency: Insights From Forest Transition in the Brazilian Cerrado

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper estimates technical efficiency (TE) and environmental efficiency (EE) of agricultural production at the municipal level of the Brazilian Cerrado in 2006 and 2017, and investigates their underlying mechanisms in relation to forest transition theory.
Ricardo Muniz Simões   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

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

Are Pesticide Residues Found in the Oranges Produced in Sari? [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Background and purpose: Today, ensuring food security for the inhabitants of the earth, and preserving agricultural production from destruction due to drought, pests, and diseases, seems more necessary than ever.
Narges Mazloomi   +6 more
doaj  

Dietary supplementation of Galactooligosaccharides improves growth performance and intestinal barrier function of offspring

open access: yesPorcine Health Management
This study aims to investigate the effects of maternal supplementation with galactooligosaccharides (GOS) on intestinal digestion, absorption, and barrier function of offspring.
Jichang Zheng   +4 more
doaj   +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

Investigation of the Residue Levels of Pesticides in the Rice Produced in Mazandaran Province in the Controlled Cultivation Method in 2022 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences
Background and purpose: The employment of pesticides for the prevention, elimination, and reduction of pests detrimental to agricultural products throughout various stages of crop cultivation is essential for improving the health of these products ...
Laleh Karimzadeh   +6 more
doaj  

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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