Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Incorporating local ecological knowledge to explore wolverine distribution in Alberta, Canada
Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2019 Wolverines (Gulo gulo) occur at low densities in remote areas that are typically difficult to access, which has resulted in a lack of baseline data and uncertain status across parts of their range.
Shevenell M. Webb +5 more
doaj +1 more source
Harvesting Bertholletia excelsa Bonpl. in a western Amazon rural community: local ecological knowledge and meaning to "nut-crackers". [PDF]
J Ethnobiol Ethnomed, 2023 Souza AO +3 more
europepmc +1 more source
Local Knowledge of Plants and Their Uses Among Women in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia [PDF]
, 2013 Women’s local ecological knowledge (LEK) is noted by many scholars to be unique and important for local conservation and development planning. Although LEK integration is inherent to ethnobotanical research, in Ethiopia, the knowledge-gender link has not
Bussmann, Rainer +6 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li +2 more
wiley +1 more source
Mitochondrial DNA and local ecological knowledge reveal two lineages of leatherback turtle on the beaches of Oaxaca, Mexico. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Castillo-Morales CA +3 more
europepmc +1 more source
How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Using Local Ecological Knowledge to Search for Non-Native Species in Natura 2000 Sites in the Central Mediterranean Sea: An Approach to Identify New Arrivals and Hotspot Areas. [PDF]
Biology (Basel), 2023 Perzia P +9 more
europepmc +1 more source
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor +3 more
wiley +1 more source
Landscape-scale concordance between local ecological knowledge for tropical wild species and remote sensing of land cover. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Takasaki Y +3 more
europepmc +1 more source