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Adoption of Minimum Tillage and Mid‐Season Drainage in Rice Production and Their Impacts on Farm and Economic Performance

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of two greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation practices—minimum tillage and mid‐season drainage—on rice farmers' farm performance (e.g., crop yield and risk) and economic outcomes (e.g., income and vulnerability).
Hongyun Zheng, Wanglin Ma
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Nitrogen use efficiency and yield gains from <i>Stylosanthes guianensis</i> integration in upland rice: insights from a ¹⁵N-labelling study under conservation agriculture. [PDF]

Nutr Cycl Agroecosyst
Zemek O, Oberson A, Dusserre J, Scopel E, Frossard E.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Impact of Credit and Training on Farmers Efficiency: A Semi‐Parametric Meta‐Frontier Analysis

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers in developing countries face several constraints, which affect their productivity. To reduce these constraints and enhance productivity, government and non‐governmental agencies implement programmes that provide credit and training to farmers.
Anthony Baffoe‐Bonnie, Genti Kostandini   +1 more
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Okra disease dataset for classification and segmentation: Dataset collection, analysis and applications. [PDF]

Data Brief
Sowmiya K, Thenmozhi M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact of genetically modified Brinjal (Bt brinjal) on farmers' income and production in Pabna District, Bangladesh. [PDF]

GM Crops Food
Hossain MA, Hossain KK, Joshi NP.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
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Sowing seeds for the future: Future time perspective and climate adaptation among farmers. [PDF]

Br J Soc Psychol
Shaffer-Morrison CD, Dillman-Hasso NH, Wilson RS.   +2 more
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The Savage Worlds of Henry Drummond (1851–1897): Science, Racism and Religion in the Work of a Popular Evolutionist

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract The savage was a familiar as well as deeply problematic figure in late‐Victorian literary and scientific imaginaries. Savages provided an unstable but capacious and flexible signifier to explore human development and human difference, most often in ways that followed a disturbing racial logic.
Diarmid A. Finnegan
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Commercial importance of seaweeds: an overview. [PDF]

Bioresour Bioprocess
Rath S, Sahoo SS, Samantaray A, Parhi P, Sahoo CR, Thatoi H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Gendered processes of recruitment to elite higher educational institutions in mid‐twentieth century Britain

Gender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses rare and detailed data on matriculants to the University of Oxford during the middle decades of the twentieth century as a prism through which to consider gendered processes of recruitment to elite institutions. The article makes four key claims. First, the broader shifts in middle‐class women's labour market participation in
Eve Worth, Naomi Muggleton, Aaron Reeves
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