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Inventorization of ethnobotanical use of some medicinal halophytes plants in the Algerian arid zone (Biskra) [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research
Context: The population's use of halophyte plants in traditional medicine is a fundamental component of the exploration of natural remedies. Aims: To analyze a list of halophyte plants and their ethnobotanical characteristics, with a focus on those ...
Zohra F. Behaz, Fatma Demnati Allache, Naima Mebrek, Amina Belhadj   +3 more
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Do crop diversity and livestock production improve smallholder intra-household dietary diversity, nutrition and sustainable food production? Empirical evidence from Pakistan

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Crop diversification and livestock production is an important strategy to enhance nutrition, sustainable food production, and improve food security, especially at the smallholder household level.
Muhammad Waseem, Xiaoyun Li, Ihsan Jamil, Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam, Qasir Abbas, Muhammad Haseeb Raza, Moataz Eliw   +6 more
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Cultural diversity and plant-level productivity [PDF]

Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012
Abstract Using comprehensive data for German establishments, we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce (the micro level) and in the aggregate labor force of the region where the plant is located (the macro level). We find
Trax, Michaela, Brunow, Stephan, Suedekum, Jens   +2 more
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Labor diversity and firm productivity

European Economic Review, 2014
Using a matched employer–employee data-set, we analyze how workforce diversity associates with the productivity of firms in Denmark, following two main econometric routes. In the first one, we estimate a standard Cobb–Douglas function, calculate the implied total factor productivity and relate the latter to diversity statistics in a second stage.
Parrotta, Pierpaolo, Pozzoli, Dario, Pytlikova, Mariola   +2 more
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Association between genotypic diversity and biofilm production in group B Streptococcus [PDF]

, 2016
Background: Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of sepsis and meningitis and an important factor in premature and stillbirths. Biofilm production has been suggested to be important for GBS pathogenesis alongside many other elements ...
Davies, H. Dele, Gaddy, Jennifer A., Laut, Clare, Manning, Shannon D., Parker, Robert E., Zadoks, Ruth   +5 more
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Leveraging farm production diversity for dietary diversity: evidence from national level panel data

Agricultural and Food Economics, 2022
Dietary diversity is the key to improved health and nutrition. Farm production diversity has the potential of enhancing dietary diversity but this interrelationship varies and is ambiguous in many societies.
Sayla Khandoker, Alka Singh, Shivendra Kumar Srivastava   +2 more
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Localisation of primary food production in Finland: production potential and environmental impacts of food consumption patterns [PDF]

, 2008
The potential for and environmental consequences of localising primary production of food were investigated by considering different food consumption patterns, based on conventional and organic production.
Helenius, Juha, Hietala, Reija, Ketomäki, Hanna, Risku-Norja, Helmi, Virtanen, Hanna   +4 more
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Does production diversity support dietary diversity? Evidence from pastoral and agro-pastoral households in West Pokot County, Kenya

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Consumption of part of own-produced food is regarded as a sustainable approach to attaining dietary diversity and a pathway to improved food and nutrition security.
Billy Okemer Ipara, David Jakinda Otieno, Willis Oluoch-Kosura, Angela Adhiambo Andago, Magnus Jirström, Heather Mackay, Fredrik Fernqvist, Elisabeth Rajala   +7 more
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The role of rubber farming in household dietary diversity in the upper Mekong region, Southwest China

Food and Energy Security, 2021
The expansion of cash tree crops, such as natural rubber, in the tropical region of South Asia has resulted in an agricultural transformation from subsistence production to market‐oriented production, implicating the local ecological environment, economy,
Yajie Luo, Shi Min, Junfei Bai
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Impact of agricultural diversity and market accessibility on dietary outcomes for households, women, and children in Bangladesh

International Journal of Agricultural Research, Innovation and Technology
Diversified agricultural production increases household food diversity, especially in developing nations where subsistence farming is prevalent. The goal of this study was to determine the factors associated with farm production, commercialization ...
Musammet Rasheda Begum, Injamamul Hasnine, Klinton Barua, Md. Shafiqul Islam Khan   +3 more
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