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Commodity risk assessment of Ullucus tuberosus tubers from Peru. [PDF]
Abstract The European Commission requested the EFSA Panel on Plant Health to prepare and deliver risk assessments for commodities listed in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/2019 as ‘High risk plants, plant products and other objects. This Scientific Opinion covers plant health risks posed by tubers of Ullucus tuberosus imported from Peru ...
EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH) +25 more
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The long road to a sustainable banana trade
Bananas are the world's most popular dessert fruit and a staple starch crop for millions in low‐ and middle‐income countries. The banana export trade that supplies North America, Europe, and other wealthy nations has a history fraught with exploitation and conflict.
Daniel P. Bebber
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Whereas previous work investigates how the amount of chemical diversity in a plant population influences insect ecology, our results indicate that local spatial distribution of diversity is equally important. A key implication of this work is the potential to design cultivar mixtures spatially, at the movement scale of target organisms, to create more ...
Kayleigh C. Hauri +4 more
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Complex landscapes stabilize farm bird communities and their expected ecosystem services
Our results suggest that farmers can effectively manage their farms to harness ecosystem services from birds through farm diversification. Disservices provided by birds, however, appear to be most negatively impacted by landscape‐level complexity. Thus, greater incentives for farmers to increase semi‐natural cover at the landscape scale are likely ...
Olivia M. Smith +8 more
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What do we know about opportunities and challenges for localities from Cannabis legalization?
Abstract This review article assays the scholarly and popular press literature on the opportunities and challenges the growing legalized cannabis industry offers U.S. local governments and communities. Localities are an important focus because in many states with legalized cannabis, local jurisdictions have authority to prevent or condition its ...
Parisa Kavousi +11 more
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Our findings highlight the need for conservation biological control to go beyond ‘one size fits all’ and consider the specific ecology of the involved organisms, even for a single crop type. Landscapes with high edge density and flowering woody plants may support natural enemies, in particular syrphids, which colonised the fields early in the season ...
Ezequiel González +5 more
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Nuevas fórmulas docentes para la didáctica de “Protección de cultivos”: contenidos y formas [PDF]
On the basis of legal framework about the Spanish studies adaptation to the EHEA, the course “Crop protection” is in the syllibuses of the degrees of “Agricultural and Rural Environmental Engineering”, “Agro-Environmental Engineering” and “Agrifood ...
Lorenzana de la Varga, Alicia
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En la presente contribución, el relevamiento de la diversidad fúngica entomopatógena asociada a cultivos orgánicos de yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis A.
Claudia Elena Gonzalez +3 more
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NORMATIVA DE BIOINSUMOS, FOMENTO A REDUCIR LA CARGA QUÍMICA
En la actualidad existen a nivel mundial, cerca de 1.500 ingredientes activos de plaguicidas y 60.000 preparados comerciales o formulaciones de los mismos; y se estima que aproximadamente el 85% de los plaguicidas en el mundo se emplean en el sector ...
Pamela Ruales, Sara Barriga
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Monitoreo de las poblaciones de insectos plaga en limón Persa por efecto del neem Azadirachta indica
Introducción: El limón persa (Citrus latifolia Tan), también conocido como limón Tahití, limón pérsico es un cultivo susceptible a plagas, las cuales merman la producción y calidad de los frutos.
Juan Valente Megchún-García +2 more
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