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Rural Areas [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter assesses the impacts of climate change on, and the prospects for adaptation in, rural areas. Rural areas include diverse patterns of settlement, infrastructure, and livelihoods, and relate in complex ways with urban areas. The chapter shows that rural areas experience specific vulnerabilities to climate change, both through their ...
Dasgupta, Purnamita, Morton, John, Dodman, David, Karapinar, Barış, Meza, Francisco, Rivera-Ferre, Marta G., Toure Sarr, Aissa, Vincent, Katharine E.   +7 more
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Strategy for the agricultural human resource potential development and management in priority and border geostrategic territories (regions) of Russia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2021
Analysis of agricultural sub-sectors personnel of some priority and border geostrategic territories (regions) revealed negative trends and main problems in the human resources formation and management in the agricultural business. The personnel potential
Semkin Alexander, Altukhov Anatoly, Silaeva Lydia, Bykov Vasily, Belyakova Ksenia   +4 more
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Mapping farmer vulnerability to target interventions for climate-resilient agriculture: science in practice

Water Policy, 2023
Farmers in dryland regions are highly vulnerable to rainfall variability. This vulnerability is unequal, as it is mediated by biophysical and social factors.
Pooja Prasad, Parth Gupta, Hemant Belsare, Chirag M. Mahendra, Manasi Bhopale, Sudhanshu Deshmukh, Milind Sohoni   +6 more
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Areas of placement and specialization in the development of agricultural production management in Russia [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences, 2020
The article discusses the issues of strategic development of the management of accommodation and specialization of the municipal level agricultural entities, where the main threats associated with the justification of the strategic management object at ...
Semkin Alexander, Silaeva Lydia, Voronin Evgeny, Pyatinsky Alexander   +3 more
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Mapping combined with principal component analysis identifies excellent lines with increased rice quality

Scientific Reports, 2022
Quality-related traits are some of the most important traits in rice, and screening and breeding rice lines with excellent quality are common ways for breeders to improve the quality of rice.
Qi Wang, Xiaonan Li, Hongwei Chen, Feng Wang, Zilong Li, Jiacheng Zuo, Mingqian Fan, Bingbing Luo, Pulin Feng, Jiayu Wang   +9 more
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Analysis of Adhesive Distribution over Particles According to Their Size and Potential Savings from Particle Surface Determination

Fibers, 2022
Wood and its processing into particles are, combined, the largest cost factor in the production of particleboard, followed by the cost of adhesive. Thus, reducing their cost is a goal of process optimization.
Jan T. Benthien, Jördis Sieburg-Rockel, Nick Engehausen, Gerald Koch, Jan Lüdtke   +4 more
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Agricultural intensification and risk in water-constrained hard-rock regions: a social-ecological systems study of horticulture cultivation in western India

Ecology and Society, 2020
Developing countries frequently find their poverty reduction initiatives to be at odds with promotion of sustainable practices. In India too, agricultural intensification through horticulture cultivation is an important government strategy to raise farm ...
Pooja Prasad, Milind Sohoni
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Assessing inequalities and regional disparities in child nutrition outcomes in India using MANUSH – a more sensitive yardstick

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020
Background India is strongly committed to reducing the burden of child malnutrition, which has remained a persistent concern. Findings from recent surveys indicate co-existence of child undernutrition, micronutrient deficiency and overweight/obesity, i.e.
Ayushi Jain, Satish B. Agnihotri
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Contextual knowledge co-production and capacity building for sanitation planning: experience from Kerala, India

Water Policy, 2022
Small towns in the global South face huge infrastructure deficits in sanitation due to the lack of technical, institutional and financial capacity to establish treatment systems.
Sruthi Pillai, N. C. Narayanan
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Small Papillae Regulated by SPD25 are Critical for Balancing Photosynthetic CO2 Assimilation and Water Loss in Rice

Rice, 2023
Background The leaf epidermis plays an important role in the transmission of light and the regulation of water and gas exchange, which influences the photosynthesis of mesophyll cells.
Lin Zhu, Faliang Zeng, Yinpei Liang, Qi Wang, Hongwei Chen, Pulin Feng, Mingqian Fan, Yanshuang Cheng, Jiayu Wang   +8 more
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