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Rubber and plantain intercropping: Effects of different planting densities on soil characteristics.

PLoS ONE, 2019
Two field experiments were conducted at Ellembelle and Jomoro districts in the Western region of Ghana where rubber cultivation is a predominant farming activity.
Erasmus Narteh Tetteh, Akwasi Adutwum Abunyewa, Henry Oppong Tuffour, Joseph Nketiah Berchie, Patricia Pinamang Acheampong, Kwame Twum-Ampofo, Evans Dawoe, Vincent Logah, Olivia Agbenyega, Stella Ama Ennin, Isaac Nunoo, Caleb Melenya, Eric Owusu Danquah, Victor Rex Barnes, Samuel Tetteh Partey   +14 more
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How genomics fuel breeding: unraveling the structure of infectious eBSV lead to the end of the BSV constraint for breeding banana interspecific hybrids [PDF]

, 2014
Infections of banana and plantain by banana streak viruses (BSV) can occur in the absence of vector-mediated transmission, through the activation of infectious endogenous BSV sequences (eBSVs).
Chabannes, Matthieu, Duroy, Pierre-Olivier, Farinas, Benoît, Iskra Caruana, Marie-Line, Jenny, Christophe, Laboureau, Nathalie, Pichaut, Jean-Philippe, Salmon, Frédéric, Teycheney, Pierre-Yves, Umber, Marie   +9 more
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Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun, Bastin, Bellwood, Bingham, Blanchon, Blanchon, Blench, Blench, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bostoen, Bunkheti, Clist, Crane, Daeleman, de Filippo, De Grauwe, de Maret, de Rop, de Rop, de Schryver, Fontaney, Gossweiler, Greenberg, Hagendorens, Hamon, Hannan, Hubau, Hulstaert, Hulstaert, Kabinda, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Koni Muluwa, Kouarata, Latham, Lejju, Linton, MacGaffey, Maniacky, McCann, Mouandza, Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, Neumann, Pasch, Philippson, Phillipson, Raponda-Walker, Ricquier, Ricquier, Schwartz, SPIAF, Storrs, Thornell, van Everbroecke, Van Neer, Vansina, Vansina   +57 more
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Later life mobilities at the margins of urban geography

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract How do older people navigate African cities? This paper addresses that question through vernacular accounts of everyday mobility in Accra and Sekondi‐Takoradi, Ghana. By engaging with geographies of later life, it challenges the Southern urban critique to better reflect the plurality of marginality, and contributes to reimagining how ...
James Esson, Ebenezer F. Amankwaa, Katherine V. Gough, Peter Mensah, Katie McQuaid, Ross Wignall   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Species competition in multispecies grass swards [PDF]

, 2013
There is growing interest in establishing highly biodiverse grasslands that are also capable of maintaining high yields. In order to design successful multispecies mixtures it is necessary to know the competitiveness of individual species and how ...
Eriksen, Jørgen, Mortensen, Tine B., Søegaard, Karen   +2 more
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica

Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, 2026.
Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
wiley   +1 more source

Buckhorn Plantain

, 2012
Buckhorn plantain (Plantago lanceotata) is a weed with increasing significance in Wasatch County. It is invading alfalfa fields and pastures in the Wallsburg and Heber valleys. Other names for buckhorn plantain are narrow-leaf plantain, ribwart plantain, English plantain, and ribgrass.
Sulser, Allan, Whitesides, Ralph
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What is missing in our understanding of urban slum environments and maternal, infant and young child nutrition from publicly available data in Asia and the Pacific?

Maternal &Child Nutrition, Volume 22, Issue 1, March 2026.
Abstract Given the recent, rapid urbanisation in Asia and the Pacific region, coupled with increases in the triple burden of malnutrition, we need to better understand maternal, infant and young child nutrition (MIYCN) for populations living in urban slum environments.
Emma Haycraft, Damith Chandrasenage, David Wambui, Sophie Goudet, Emily Rousham, Megan Stanley, Zivai Murira, Paula Griffiths   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The influence of the plantain juice on the manifestations and outcome of acute cyclophosphamide intoxication in rats

Биопрепараты: Профилактика, диагностика, лечение, 2018
To estimate the influence of the plantain juice on neurological manifestations of the severe acute cyclophosphamide intoxication, rats have been gavaged with 4 ml/kg plantain juice 1 h before cyclophosphamide dosing (intraperitoneally, 600 mg/kg). Within
T. V. Schäfer, J. J. Ivnitsky, V. L. Rejniuk   +2 more
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Spatial market integration analysis of plantain markets in mid Ghana

Cogent Business & Management
The paper estimates the degree of integration of plantain prices in three selected markets to assess the efficiency of the plantain marketing system in mid Ghana.
Christina Antwiago Amarchey, Paul Adjei Kwakwa   +1 more
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