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A Non‐Destructive Method for Sex Identification in a Tubuliferan Thrips
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, EarlyView.Accurate sex identification of the biological control agent Pseudophilothrips ichini Hood (Thysanoptera: Phlaeothripidae) is a useful tool for colony management and experimental applications in biological control. Destructive methods of sex identification limit specimen usage, prompting the need for a sex identification method for live thrips.
Brianna Foster +2 more
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From shifting agriculture to sustainable rubber agroforestry systems (jungle rubber) in Indonesia: a history of innovations processes. [PDF]
The aim of this chapter is to describe changes in the Indonesian jungle rubber system from the angle of the production of innovation by farmers themselves (indigenous knowledge) and the process of integration of external technical innovations in an ...
Eric Penot
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Social Relations in Clove and Rubber Plantations
Plantations are a vital non-oil and gas sector that contributes to state revenues. However, the potential of plantations in Indonesia has not fully provided welfare for planters due to the complexity of social networks in management and harvesting.
Gunawan, Gunawan +4 more
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Agriculture, 2018 The increasing global demand for vegetable oils has resulted in a significant increase in the area under oil palm in the tropics during the last couple of decades, and this is projected to increase further.
Sanjutha Shanmugam +4 more
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Between famine and freedom: Food prices during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945–9
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This paper investigates how the Indonesian War of Independence (1945‒9) influenced staple food prices, and how fluctuations in those prices, in turn, shaped the trajectory and dynamics of the conflict. We compiled a dataset comprising more than 8600 prices for staple foods covering the entire Indonesian archipelago from 1939‒49, allowing us to
Ingrid de Zwarte +2 more
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Rubber smallholders' flexibility No windfall, no crisis [PDF]
A few decades ago rubber was one of the first tree crops to be characterized by a spectacular breakthrough, the production of new, highly productive clonal material.
F. Ruf, E. Penot
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Remote SensingThe booming nature rubber industry has contributed to the extensive expansion of rubber plantations in the Lancang-Mekong River Basin over recent decades.
Hongfeng Xu +6 more
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PLoS ONE, 2013 Forest-to-rubber plantation conversion is an important land-use change in the tropical region, for which the impacts on soil carbon stocks have hardly been studied.
Marleen de Blécourt +4 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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THE RUBBER SHOWCASE IN SUMATRA [PDF]
As with cocoa a combination of available land and centres with fairly dense population is a prerequisite for a boom. But in the case of rubber the boom has been far more progressive than that for cocoa due to 3 main factors.
Eric Penot
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