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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Checking the adequacy of rainwater harvesting system for housing and landscaping [PDF]

, 2007
Rainwater harvesting has been the main source of water supply for potable and non-potable uses in the old days because the water conveyance systems were not used for water distribution and the method used for rainwater harvesting was simple and primary ...
Ghazali, Abdul Halim, Megat Mohd Noor, Megat Johari, Mohammed, Thamer Ahmed   +2 more
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Examining the Impact of Row Planting on Labor Use for Sustainable Food Production Among Maize Farmers in Rural Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Smallholder farmers are reverting to traditional production methods due to the high opportunity costs and unintended consequences of new technologies. This study focuses on row planting technology, which is labor‐intensive and slow without mechanized operations.
Emmanuel Tetteh Jumpah, Habtamu Alem, Abdulai Adams, Tomáš Ratinger, Miroslava Bavorová   +4 more
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Legal implications of compulsory rainwater harvesting in Malaysia [PDF]

, 2013
Rainwater harvesting refers to a process that capture rainfall and use it for non-portable use like flushing and general washing. Although it has been promoted in Malaysia since 1999, the implementation of rainwater harvesting as an alternative supply of
Ab Rahman, Suhaimi, Md Khalid, Rasyikah, Mohd Shahwahid, Farah, Othman, Mohd Shahwahid   +3 more
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VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee, Chanhong Hwang, Hyunseok Kang, Yechan Park, Hangwoo Jin, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Eunmi Choi, Dugki Min   +7 more
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Climate change and perennial crop production: Evidence of yield impact and adaptation in California

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Perennial crops are economically important. They contribute to food security, providing essential nutrients that are often lacking in annual crops, and provide additional environmental benefits compared with annual crops. Despite their importance, empirical research on the impacts of climate change and adaptation on perennial crops remains ...
Yuanyuan Wen, Wei Zhang, Julian M. Alston   +2 more
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Gleaning the Rocky Shore? 2500 Years of Coastal Resource Use at Red Bluff 1, GunaiKurnai Country, SE Australia

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Shell middens in Gippsland along the eastern half of Victoria's coastline have usually been characterised as small, short‐duration camp sites with relatively low shell densities and low taxonomic diversity. Here we present new excavation results from a dense, high‐diversity site at Red Bluff near the eastern end of GunaiKurnai Country, a ...
Patrick Faulkner, Bruno David, David M. Kennedy, Fiona Petchey, Joanna Fresløv, Ashleigh J. Rogers, Jillian Garvey, Rachel Kirby, Runjie Yuan, Russell Mullett, John Stanisic, Kyne Krusic‐Golub, V. Ruth Pullin, Matthew C. McDowell, Robert J. Skelly, Anthony Romano, Vanessa N. L. Wong, GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation   +17 more
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The significance of local water resources captured in small reservoirs for crop production – A global-scale analysis [PDF]

, 2010
Rainwater harvesting, broadly defined as the collection and storage of surface runoff, has a long history in supplying water for agricultural purposes. Despite its significance, rainwater harvesting in small reservoirs has previously been overlooked in ...
Douglas, Ellen M, Fekete, Balazs M, Frolking, Steve, Schumann, Andreas H, Vorosmarty, Charles, Wisser, Dominik   +5 more
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Zooarchaeological Analysis of an Atoll Assemblage From Central Micronesia

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There has been a dearth of archaeological research on atolls in the central‐eastern Caroline Islands of Micronesia. This has limited our understanding of pre‐contact subsistence and settlement strategies in these more marginal and remote environments, particularly in regards to zooarchaeological data.
Philippa Jorissen, Gabriel Sanchez, Scott M. Fitzpatrick   +2 more
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Enhancing food and livelihood security in the context of the food and financial crisis: challenges and opportunities for small scale rainwater harvesting and conservation [PDF]

The world recently experienced the food and financial crisis. The food crisis was an indicator of the challenges towards sufficiently feeding an increasing world population.
Baiphethi, Mompati N., Kundhlande, Godfrey, Ralehlolo, N.G., Viljoen, Machiel F.   +3 more
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