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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

Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for the Influence of Community Turnover Along Environmental Gradients on Compositional Uniqueness. [PDF]

Ecol Lett
Hernández-Carrasco D, Gillis AJ, Lai HR, Siqueira T, Tonkin JD.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Impact of Sustainable Agricultural Practices on Labor Use Among Rice Farmers in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Mekong Delta (MKD), Vietnam has achieved high rice productivity through rapid intensification. However, this progress has led to environmental degradation and adverse economic and health effects. To mitigate these challenges, sustainable agricultural practices (SAPs) have been promoted.
Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, Ho Thanh Tam, Koji Shimada, Hoang Ha Anh, Nguyen Van Cuong, Le Cong Tru   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coupled geomorphic and climate-driven biogeochemical processes regulate soil organic carbon stocks in agricultural terraces. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Zhao P, Fallu DJ, Doetterl S, Cucchiaro S, Tarolli P, Pears BR, Lang A, Mainka MF, Ou X, Whitaker J, Wang Z, Brown AG, Six J, Van Oost K.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Role of Certifications in Improving Household Food Security Among Peruvian Farmers

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving global food security requires sustainable transformations in agri‐food systems. Voluntary Sustainability Standards (VSS) such as Organic and Fairtrade aim to internalize certain social and environmental costs while promoting more equitable value distribution, improved market access, and sustainable production practices.
Lisa‐Marie Schulte, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Livestock grazing boosts plant diversity in the Greater Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem. [PDF]

Ecol Appl
Kiwango Y, Venderbos R, Li Y, Olff H, Veldhuis MP.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From nitrogen addition to productivity: above-belowground mechanisms and nonlinear thresholds in Grasslands. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci
Zheng Y, Zhang X, Du X, Fan Y, Gao J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Real‐time fault detection in multicomponent nuclear‐waste slurries through data fusion of spectroscopic sensors

AIChE Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Three instruments–Raman spectroscopy, attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and focused beam reflectance measurement–were used to detect sensor faults, mixing faults, and unanticipated chemistry in a system of multicomponent slurries.
Steven H. Crouse, Ronald W. Rousseau, Martha A. Grover   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contrasting evolution of the Arabian Sea and Pacific Ocean oxygen minimum zones during the Miocene. [PDF]

Commun Earth Environ
Hess AV, Auderset A, Rosenthal Y, Sigman DM, Martínez-García A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source