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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
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0244]

, 1976
Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "With John Staub rallying for a 5-7, 7-6, 7-6 victory over favored AliKhan, the University of Oklahoma posted a 5-4 victory Tuesday night over cross-state rical Oklahoma State at the ...

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Larvicidal activity of essential oils and nanoemulsions against Culex pipiens larvae (Diptera: Culicidae). [PDF]

Sci Rep
Abdel-Ghany HSM, Ayoob F, Baiome BA, Allam SA, Youssef AA, Kabadaia MM, Abdel-Shafy S.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrodynamic Mechanisms in Cavitation Erosion [Elektronisk resurs]

, 2012
A refined description of the hydrodynamic mechanisms involved in determining the erosiveness of a collapsing cavity is presented. It highlights the impact of the possible presence of a partially glassy sheet and that collapse symmetry/asymmetry needs to ...
Lu, Nai Xian,, Bensow, Rickard,, Bark, Göran,   +2 more
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Acaricidal and synergistic activity of essential oils, their binary combinations, and nanoemulsions against larvae and unfed adult stages of brown dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Acari: Ixodidae). [PDF]

BMC Vet Res
Abdel-Ghany HSM, Ayoob F, Elsawy BSM, Alzan HF, Youssef AA, Abdel-Shafy S.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Arp2/3-dependent regulation of ciliogenesis governs adaptive distal tubular epithelial cell states in kidney disease. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Rogg M, Weißer L, Maier JI, Sigle A, Helmstädter M, Stigler M, Sammarco A, Gräwe K, Andreev G, Kark C, Ramakrishnan SK, Özel C, Butt L, Arnold F, Bechtel-Walz W, Schilling O, Tanriver Y, Brinkkötter P, Grabbert M, Simons M, Werner M, Kretz O, Benzing T, Huber TB, Schell C.   +24 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Topological Properties of International Commodity Market: How Uncertainty Affects the Linkages?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The study aims to explore the network topology of the international commodity market by examining the interconnections among 21 commodity futures across various categories, including energy, precious and industrial metals, and agriculture. We analyze the market structure of these commodity futures under both low and high uncertainty conditions
Ibrahim Yagli, Bayram Deviren
wiley   +1 more source