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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

Emerging Techniques for the Recovery of Bioactive Compounds From Sweet Potato Leaves [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] and Their Functional Health Benefits

Food Bioengineering
The recent focus on sweet potatoes [Ipomoea batatas (L.) Lam] and their leaves have made them intriguing subjects for research. They contain bioactive compounds showing potential health benefits in vitro and in vivo studies.
M. H. A. Jahurul, S. Islam
doaj   +1 more source

Stable Isotope Tracer Analysis in Isolated Mitochondria from Mammalian Systems

Metabolites, 2014
Mitochondria are a focal point in metabolism, given that they play fundamental roles in catabolic, as well as anabolic reactions. Alterations in mitochondrial functions are often studied in whole cells, and metabolomics experiments using 13C-labeled ...
Simon-Pierre Gravel, Sylvia Andrzejewski, Daina Avizonis, Julie St-Pierre   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pine bark

The Journal of Primary Health Care, 2023
E. Lyn Lee, Jo Barnes
openaire   +3 more sources

Assessing Household Welfare in Response to Rising Food Prices in The Gambia

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how rising food prices affected household welfare in The Gambia using nationally representative data from the 2015/16 Integrated Household Survey (IHS‐3). The analysis reflects household consumption behavior and market conditions prevailing during that period and provides a structural benchmark for understanding ...
Roger Vorsah, Obed Quaicoe, Fafanyo Asiseh, John N. Ng'ombe   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Makes Mountain Pine Beetle a Tricky Pest? Difficult Decisions when Facing Beetle Attack in a Mixed Species Forest

, 2011
The pine forest of British Columbia is undergoing its largest recorded pest epidemic. The damage caused by native mountain pine beetle creates difficulties for the public owner of the resource, which is interested in protecting future timber supply while
Kooten, G.C., van, Bogle, T.
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Identification and Characterization of Germ Cell Genes Vasa and Nanos-2 in the Ovary and Testis of White Crappie (Pomoxis annularis) and the Ovary of Black Crappie (P. nigromaculatus)

Fishes
The vasa gene, encoding an ATP-dependent RNA helicase, and the nanos-2 gene, an RNA-binding protein, are essential for germ cell origination, migration, maintenance, and development in vertebrates and invertebrates.
Sujan Bhattarai, Nilima N. Renukdas, Anita M. Kelly, Amit Kumar Sinha, Sanjay Joshi, Dayan A. Perera   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, Harlan Co., Kentucky.

, 1937
Glyn A.
Pine Mountain Settlement School (Pine Mountain, Ky.)
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Cost-effective cultivation of lodgepole pine for biorefinery applications [PDF]

, 2013
The overall objective was to evaluate the scope for the cost-effective cultivation of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta, PC) stands in a way that would enable early biomass harvesting to supply raw material for biorefineries.
Backlund, Ingegerd
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