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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, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +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, Cillari T, Crociata G, Deidun A, Falautano M, Franzitta G, Galdies J, Maggio T, Vivona P, Castriota L.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

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, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ecological factors affecting Alpine chamois population recruitment: remote sensing can support adaptive management [PDF]

, 2016
The analysis of ecological factors able to affect the life history traits of ungulates is important to reveal key information on population dynamics of wild herbivores.
Apollonio, Marco, Chirichella, Roberta, Orler, Filippo, Rocca, Michele, Sitzia, Tommaso   +4 more
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Is Youth's Engagement in Agribusiness an Opportunity or a Necessity? A Closer Look at the Situation in South Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the broad focus on necessity‐ and opportunity‐driven entrepreneurship in research and policy, the entrepreneurial dichotomy within the agribusiness context has not been adequately addressed. This study contributes to closing this knowledge gap by examining youth's perceptions of agribusiness through the lens of the push‐pull motivation
Cool Dady Mangole, Paul Martin Dontsop Nguezet, Shiferaw Feleke, Victor Manyong, Kamala Kaghoma Christian, Zoumana Bamba, Tahirou Abdoulaye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Do socioeconomic factors and local human preference determine the hybridization of knowledge in local medical systems?

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
Background Hybridization between the local medical systems (LMSs) and biomedicine has been the focus of different studies in ethnobiology, primarily due to the increasing access to biomedicine by indigenous peoples and local communities.
Jorge Izaquiel Alves de Siqueira, Gustavo Taboada Soldati, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior, Flávia Rosa Santoro, Luci de Senna Valle   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Local ecological knowledge and folk medicine in historical Estonia, Livonia, Courland and Galicia in Northeastern Europe, 1805-1905. [PDF]

Open Res Eur, 2022
Anegg M, Prakofjewa J, Kalle R, Sõukand R.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Innovative monitoring methods in the context of adaptive management of hunting in the amazon, Colombia [PDF]

, 2015
Managing complex hunting socio-ecological systems within a context of uncertainty requires setting up efficient ways to monitor changes in the system and inform decision making in an adaptive management process.
Andrade, German, Baptiste, Brigitte, Cruz, Daniel F., Diaz, Angelica, Garcia, Claude, Le Bel, Sébastien, Nasi, Robert, Quinceno Mesa, Maria-Paula, Sandrin, François, Trujillo, Fernando, Van Vliet, Nathalie, Vanegas, Liliana   +11 more
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Consumer Preferences for Craft Beer: The Interplay of Localness and Advertising Language

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explores the influence of the language of the label, origin of production, and origin of brewing ingredients on Croatian consumers' preferences and willingness to pay for organic craft beer. Employing an online survey and a choice experiment among 223 Croatian alcohol consumers, we find that while there's a willingness to pay a ...
Marija Cerjak, Claudia Bazzani, Andreas C. Drichoutis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A productive friction: Leveraging misalignments between local ecological knowledge and remotely sensed imagery for forest conservation planning

Conservation Science and Practice
Earth's forests are continually monitored by both the satellite record and the lived experiences of nearly 2 billion forest‐proximate peoples. Generally, the satellite record summarizes production estimates, such as percent tree cover, at regular ...
Matt Clark, Haji Masoud Hamad, Jeffrey Andrews, Nicholas Kolarik, Kelly Hopping, Vicken Hillis, Monique Borgerhoff Mulder   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source