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Adapting to Changing Rainfall and Developing Off‐Farm Employment: Implications for the Adoption of Direct Seeding in Rice Production

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rice is the main staple food for more than half of the world's population and the income from rice is an essential source for livelihoods of millions of households. We examine whether direct seed in rice production is an adaptation of rice farmers to rainfall changes and farm labor scarcity.
Manh Hung Do
wiley   +1 more source

The Conservation Contributions of Conservation Easements: Analysis of the San Francisco Bay Area Protected Lands Spatial Database

open access: yesEcology and Society, 2008
Conservation easements have emerged as an important tool for land trusts and government agencies aiming to conserve private land in the United States. Despite the increase in public investment in conservation easement acquisitions, little is known about ...
Adena R. Rissman, Adina M. Merenlender
doaj   +1 more source

Bakery Products Enriched With Fruit and Vegetable Wastes: A Functional Approach

open access: yesAgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Enrichment of bakery products with bioactive compounds from fruit and vegetable wastes. ABSTRACT Bread and other bakery goods are among the most critical components of the human diet, which make them attractive carriers for functional ingredients aimed at improving public health.
Sena Bakir
wiley   +1 more source

#Palladium of the People: A Kantian Right to Internet Access [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Lack of high-speed internet access remains a problem in the United States, particularly in rural areas, Tribal lands, and the U.S. territories. High-speed internet should be considered a basic right because it connects people to social media, the new ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Swedish farmers' approval of nudges

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Interest in the use of behavioral policy approaches, such as nudges, has strongly increased over the past years, including in the domains of food, agricultural and environmental policies. While the approval of nudges among the general public has been studied extensively, we know little about the attitude of farmers toward nudging. Farmers may (
Liesbeth Colen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reaffirming Indigenous data sovereignty in New Mexico as a result of COVID-19

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health
Despite New Mexico’s history of working with and enhancing collaboration with the 23 Tribes in the state, data sharing and collaboration with Tribes was poor during the COVID-19 pandemic. New Mexico’s policies of state collaboration with Tribes conflicts
William O. Carson   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Expanding vulnerability assessment for public lands: The social complement to ecological approaches

open access: yesClimate Risk Management, 2017
In recent years, federal land management agencies in the United States have been tasked to consider climate change vulnerability and adaptation in their planning.
Shannon M. McNeeley   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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