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Entangled Foodways and Livelihood Pathways: Cinnamon, State Interventions, and Everyday Life in Hmong Communities of Northern Vietnam

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agroecological practices of ethnic minority farmers in Vietnam's northern uplands are being reshaped by intersecting pressures of land‐use reform, market integration, and state‐backed crop promotion. Among Hmong communities in the south of Lào Cai Province (former Yên Bái Province) cinnamon was once valued primarily for its medicinal ...
Mélie Monnerat, Sarah Turner
wiley   +1 more source

Soil organic carbon stocks after ten years of reduced tillage, compost and mulch application in temperate organic agriculture. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Niether W, Leisch-Waskönig S, Finckh MR, Junge SM, Bilibio C, Peth S, Schmidt JH, Kamau JW, Gattinger A.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Dependent Articulation in the Global Pesticide Complex: Argentina's Agrochemical Industry After the Generics Market Revolution

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the late 1990s, the pesticide industry has undergone a ‘generics revolution’ as the centre of production, and trade has shifted to the global South. China and India have become major producers, capturing Latin American markets from Northern multinationals. As a major pesticide user and a key node in global supply chains, Argentina offers
Christian Berndt, Tomás Palmisano, Marion Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimization of the parameters of tillage units. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Nadykto V, Golub G, Hutsol T, Kukharets S, Pohorilyi S, Kuboń M, Horetska I, Gajda J, Tabor S.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines rural enclosures for industrialized agriculture as a window into the local political economy and territorial politics underlying projects of agricultural modernization. In recent years, agro‐industrial parks with ‘characteristic’ industries have proliferated in China as the government viewed it as a technical solution to ...
Karita Kan
wiley   +1 more source

Optimizing abrasive wear in sustainable MCC reinforced hemp bamboo epoxy composites for tribological applications. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Gowda HDS, Hemaraju, Kumar VGP, Suresha B, Rachana CR, Bhat SK.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda

Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Although inequality between actors in agricultural value chains has been extensively studied, informal and semiformal arrangements in domestic value chains involving small‐scale actors have been explored less than formal arrangements involving large firms.
Malin J. Nystrand
wiley   +1 more source

Tribological Response of Basalt/Carbon Hybrid Laminated Composites After Water-Immersion Aging: Influence of Stacking Sequence Under Reciprocating Wear. [PDF]

Polymers (Basel)
Fidan S, Ürgün S, Özsoy Mİ, Bora MÖ, Kutluk T, Güleç E.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Do robots boost productivity? A quantitative meta‐study

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This meta‐study analyzes the productivity effects of industrial robots. More than 1800 estimates from 85 primary studies are collected. The meta‐analytic evidence suggests that robotization has so far provided, at best, a small boost to productivity. There is strong evidence of publication bias in the positive direction.
Florian Schneider
wiley   +1 more source

Other Notes, Part 2

Scottish Studies, 1959
I. Whitaker A. Fenton
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