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Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed affects coprophagous beetles' dung use

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, EarlyView.
Supplementing beef cattle diets with brown seaweed reduced the attractiveness of dung for a common dung beetle (Onthophagus nuchicornis). Dietary supplementation with brown seaweed appeared to reduce the proportion of major males in the F1 generation.
Samantha Bennett, Rhea Lumactud, Ghader Manafiazar, Paul Manning   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
wiley   +1 more source

Empowering practitioners working at the agriculture–conservation interface

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
Conservation practitioners work at the critical intersection between agricultural decision makers and conservation adoption. However, they often lack first‐hand experience or training in agricultural decision making. We designed and evaluated an intensive professional development program to help conservation practitioners grow key competencies in ...
Adam K. Janke, Julia A. Baker, Catherine DeLong, Dara M. Wald, Nancy Grudens‐Schuck, J. Gordon Arbuckle   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Floral richness drives flower–insect networks in city gardens and allotments

Ecological Entomology, EarlyView.
Floral richness was the main driver of flower visits within green spaces whilst green space in the surrounding landscape influenced flower visits by amplifying the effects of floral richness. Native plants received more visits than non‐native plants, although flower visitor richness to non‐native plants increased later in the season as non‐native plant
Emma Plant, Ria Dunkley, William A. O. McGhee, Dominic J. McCafferty, Davide M. Dominoni   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nitrogen and Phosphorus Accumulation in Pasture Soil from Repeated Poultry Litter Application

Communications in Soil Science and Plant Analysis, 2009
Poultry litter (PL) is a traditionally inexpensive and effective fertilizer to improve soil quality and agricultural productivity. However, over application to soil has raised concern because excess nutrients in runoff could accelerate the eutrophication of fresh water.
He, Zhongqi, Honeycutt, C. Wayne, Tazisong, Irenus A., Senwo, Zachary N., Zhang, Donglin   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Unreachable, Inescapable: Sustainable Development as Normative Camouflage in EU–MERCOSUR Trade

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how sustainable development functions as a mechanism of stabilising asymmetry in North–South trade governance, using the European Union (EU)–Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR) agreement as a case study. Whilst sustainability is often framed as a normative good or institutional advance, the article shows instead how it ...
Asha Herten‐Crabb
wiley   +1 more source

Avaliação de substâncias ativas e de elementos nutritivos essenciais em ovos de galinha embrionados e liofilizados [PDF]

, 2002
Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro Tecnológico. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciência dos Alimentos.Os ovos embrionados vêm sendo utilizados por habitantes de diversas regiões do Brasil no tratamento de patologias graves de ...
Campos, Celia Maria Teixeira de
core  

Probiotics in poultry: modes of action [PDF]

, 1997
This paper reviews recent advances on the use and mode of action of probiotics (direct-fed microbials) in poultry. The addition of probiotics to the diet has been found to improve growth performance and feed conversion in broilers, and egg mass, egg ...
Abdullah, Norhani, Syed Salim, Syed Jalaludin, Jin, Li Zhi, Ho, Yin Wan   +3 more
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From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard, Kelly Redouté, María Gabriela Durán Valis   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Between Autonomy and Dependency: The Territorialisation of Agroecology in the Colombian Peasant Reserve Zones

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Peasant movements employ a spectrum of politico‐economic strategies for territorialising agroecology, ranging from autonomy to (inter)dependency. To substantiate this argument, I draw on qualitative fieldwork and historical analysis to examine the Colombian Peasant Reserve Zone movement's strategies for territorialising agroecology at both the
Daniel Ortiz Gallego
wiley   +1 more source