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The Bitter Taste of Brazil's Temporary Import Ban on Robusta Coffee
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Brazil, a leading Robusta coffee producer and exporter, faced a significant drought in 2016–2017, which drastically reduced production and depleted stocks. Consequently, Brazil temporarily permitted the import of one million 60‐kg bags of Robusta coffee in the spring 2017. An import ban was imposed shortly afterward due to lobbying by domestic
Hanifi Otgun +2 more
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Egyptian Journal of Biological Pest ControlBackground India is the world’s leading producer of coconuts, with 2.08 million hectares under cultivation, yielding a total production of 22,167 million nuts annually. However, various biotic and abiotic constraints limit global palm yields.
M. Sujithra +5 more
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Insects, 2022 Xylosandrus crassiusculus (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) is reported causing damage to areca palm plantations (Areca catechu L.—Arecaceae) in Karnataka (India). In particular, X.
Shivaji Hausrao Thube +7 more
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The "plant and share" contract in Côte d'Ivoire. Incomplete contracting and land conflicts [PDF]
, 2009 This paper tackles the broad issue of contract incompleteness, property rights and conflicts in the context of rural Côte d'Ivoire. Since the beginning of the 2000s, a new type of contractual arrangement is developing rapidly: the "Plant & Share ...
Colin, Jean-Philippe, Ruf, François
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Social tensions and resource depletion pose significant challenges to the agri‐food sector, highlighting the need for coordinated strategies to ensure sustainability in supply chains. Despite its critical importance, the relationship between coordination mechanisms and sustainability performance remains underexplored.
Carlos Moreno‐Miranda, Liesbeth Dries
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The International Political Ecology of Industrial Shrimp Aquaculture and Industrial Plantation Forestry in Southeast Asia [PDF]
, 2003 This paper compares the trajectories over the last two decades of two export-oriented ‘boom crops’ in Southeast Asia: indsturial shrimp aquaculture and industrial plantation forestry. It focuses on differences in the establishment, operation and politics
Hall, Derek
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Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner +3 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2014 Promoters are regions in DNA that play important role in the regulation of gene expression. The ability to locate promoters within a section of DNA is known to be a very difficult and important task in DNA analysis.
MERIN K ELDO +5 more
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Monitoring of maize root growth on N, P, and K fertilization using rhizotron
Jurnal Ilmiah Pertanian, 2021 Maize roots will show varying growth responses to the type of fertilizer given. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of N, P, and K fertilizers on the growth of maize roots and the function of the relationship between root dry weight ...
Fajrin Pramana Putra, Roni Ismoyojati
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