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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková, Michiel van Dijk, Robert M'Barek, Hans van Meijl, Tomas Ratinger   +4 more
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Local consumer demands and domestic supply of sheep and goat meat

, 2021
Understanding consumer demand critical for the development of the sheep meat and goat meat industries. Past studies have, at a national level, found that diverse backgrounds increased demand for leaner cuts, and price being important to consumers.
Star, Megan, Rolfe, John, Lyons, Ben
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Price Premiums for Single‐Name and Compound‐Name Geographical Indications in Swiss Cheese Trade

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geographical indications (GIs) have become increasingly important in agri‐food markets, especially in Europe. For Swiss cheese imports and exports, we analyze whether GIs are associated with higher trade prices. We find that price premiums can be obtained for both exports and imports. However, this is only the case for cheeses with single name
Judith Irek
wiley   +1 more source

Sheep may not be an important zoonotic reservoir for Cryptosporidium and Giardia parasites

, 2005
Little is known of the prevalence of Cryptosporidium and Giardia parasites in sheep and the genotypes that they harbor, although potentially sheep may contribute significantly to contamination of watersheds.
Traub, R, Read, C., Read, C, Mcinnes, L, Bath, C, Besier, B, Elliot, A., McInnes, L., Traub, R.J., Elliot, A, Robertson, I., Robertson, I, Bath, C., Ryan, UM, Besier, B., Ryan, U.M.   +15 more
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Genome wide linkage disequilibrium and genetic structure in Sicilian dairy sheep breeds [PDF]

, 2014
Background The recent availability of sheep genome-wide SNP panels allows providing background information concerning genome structure in domestic animals.
TOLONE, Marco, DI GERLANDO, Rosalia, SARDINA, Maria Teresa, Maria Teresa Sardina, Rosalia Di Gerlando, TORTORICI, Lina, Baldassare Portolano, null null, MASTRANGELO, Salvatore, Salvatore Mastrangelo, PORTOLANO, Baldassare, International Sheep Genomics Consortium, Marco Tolone, Lina Tortorici   +13 more
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Risk of pathogen spillover to bighorn sheep from domestic sheep and goat flocks on private land

Wildlife Society Bulletin, 2016
Bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) across North America have suffered population losses due to polymicrobial pneumonia typically initiated by spillover events of bacteria from domestic sheep and goats.
Laura M. Heinse, Linda H. Hardesty, Richard B. Harris   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats [PDF]

Nature Communications, 2018
AbstractThe evolutionary basis of domestication has been a longstanding question and its genetic architecture is becoming more tractable as more domestic species become genome-enabled. Before becoming established worldwide, sheep and goats were domesticated in the fertile crescent 10,500 years before present (YBP) where their wild relatives remain ...
Florian Alberto, Frédéric Boyer, Pablo Orozco‐terWengel, Ian Streeter, Bertrand Servin, Pierre de Villemereuil, Badr Benjelloun, Pablo Librado, Filippo Biscarini, Licia Colli, Mario Barbato, Wahid Zamani, Adriana Alberti, Stéfan Engelen, Alessandra Stella, Stéphane Joost, Paolo Ajmone‐Marsan, Riccardo Negrini, Ludovic Orlando, Hamid Reza Rezaei, Saeid Naderi, Laura Clarke, Paul Flicek, Patrick Wincker, Éric Coissac, James Kijas, Gwenola Tosser-Klopp, A. Chikhi, Michael W. Bruford, Pierre Taberlet, François Pompanon   +30 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genomic signatures of adaptive introgression from European mouflon into domestic sheep

Scientific Reports, 2017
Mouflon (Ovis aries musimon) became extinct from mainland Europe after the Neolithic, but remnant populations from the Mediterranean islands of Corsica and Sardinia have been used for reintroductions across Europe since the 19th-century.
Mario Barbato, Frank Hailer, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, James Kijas, Paolo Mereu, Pierangela Cabras, Raffaele Mazza, Monica Pirastru, Michael W. Bruford   +8 more
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Causal analysis of trade loss from pathogens: A global study of foot and mouth disease impacts on meat exports

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman, Thomas L. Marsh   +1 more
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