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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

Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas

, 2016
The Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI) and the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of European Commission announce the writing of the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas (GSBA) in the frame of the Global Soil Biodiversity Assessment. The Atlas is a series of amazing photos, maps, charts, statistics, and shared information that scientists, educators, policy ...
Blaud, Aimeric, Vizzini, Alfredo, Quadros, Aline, Bastos, Ana, Bissett, Andrew, Young, Andrew, Zaitsev, Andrey S., Murray, Andy, Yin Yee Kong, Angela, Fitzgerald, Anna, Zangerlé, Anne, Adams, Byron J., Macdonald, Catriona, Gardi, Ciro, Menta, Cristina, Bagyaraj, Davis Joseph, Renard, Delphine, Abalos, Diego, Mckey, Doyle, Velasquez, Elena, Silva, Elisangela A., Doblas-Miranda, Enrique, Blanchart, Eric, Lumini, Erica, Barreno, Eva, Sillo, Fabiano, Vaz-De-Mello, Fernando Z., Bampa, Francesca, Buscot, Francois, Verheijen, Frank G. A., Janssen, Frans, Wallender, Håkan, Segers, Hendrik, Okada, Hiroaki, Barois Boullard, Isabelle, Tuf, Ivan H., Bloem, Jaap, Keizer, Jan Jacob, Belnap, Jayne, Mathieu, Jérôme, Tondoh, Jerome E., Jiménez, Juan J., Louzada, Júlio, Zhang, Junling, Cares, Juvenil Enrique, Totsche, Kai Uwe, Ritz, Karl, Purdy, Kevin, Küsel, Kirsten, Gongalsky, Konstantin, Ranjard, Lionel, Galli, Loris, Giordano, Luana, Seldin, Lucy, Schrama, Maarten, Girlanda, Mariangela, Dunbar, Martha B., Zimmer, Martin, Nagano, Masahiro, Dita, Miguel, Pulleman, Mirjam, Pauli, Natasha, Chemidlin Prévost-Bouré, Nicolas, Carrera, Noela, Trivedi, Pankaj, Gonthier, Paul, Mele, Pauline, Mortimer, Peter, Andrés, Pilar, Creamer, Rachel, Guicharnaud, Rannveig Anna, Constantino, Reginaldo, Dick, Richard, Griffiths, Robert I., van Klink, Roel, Zanetti, Ronald, Schmelz, Rüdiger, Dequiedt, Samuel, Emery, Sarah, Ohdachi, Satoshi, Shimano, Satoshi, Karasawa, Shigeori, Yu, Shixiao, Stürmer, Sidney L., Adl, Sina, Konaté, Souleymane, Banwart, Steven, Fonte, Steven J., Trumbore, Susan, Loureiro, Susana, Komatsu, Takashi, Tsunoda, Tomonori, Nielsen, Uffe N., Bianciotto, Valeria, Orgiazzi, Alberto, Bardgett, Richard, Barrios, Edmundo, Behan-Pelletier, Valerie, Briones, Maria J. I., Chotte, Jean-Luc, de Deyn, Gerlinde B., Eggleton, Paul, Fierer, Noah, Fraser, Tandra, Hedlund, Katarina, Jeffery, Simon, Johnson, Nancy, Jones, Arwyn, Kandeler, Ellen, Kaneko, Nobuhiro, Lavelle, Patrick, Lemanceau, Philippe, Miko, Ladislav, Moreira, Fatima M. S., Ramirez, Kelly S., Scheu, Stefan, Singh, Brajesh, Six, Johan, van Der Putten, Wim, Wall, Diana   +119 more
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Assessing Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity in Latin America

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The agricultural sector in Latin America plays a vital role in ensuring food security while impacting the environment. However, there remains a lack of analysis regarding the inputs responsible for pollution within its sub‐technologies. Hence, this article aims to assess agricultural green total factor productivity (TFP) through a novel ...
Tianxiang Li, Vanessa Ormeño‐Candelario, Xueli Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foundations for a national assessment of soil biodiversity

Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment
Soils, just like all other ecosystem compartments, change over time and, consequently, conditions for soil‐inhabiting organisms are also changing, affecting their composition and diversity.
Carlos A. Guerra, Nico Eisenhauer, Christoph C. Tebbe, Willi E. R. Xylander, C. Albert, Doreen Babin, Bartosz Bartkowski, Benjamin Burkhard, Juliane Filser, Dagmar Haase, Karin Hohberg, Janina Kleemann, Sanina Kolb, Christina Lachmann, Matthias C. Rillig, Jörg Römbke, Liliane Ruess, Stefan Scheu, Nicole Scheunemann, Bastian Steinhoff‐Knopp, Nicole Wellbrock, Christian Ristok   +21 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainability Strategies in the Cocoa‐Chocolate Value Chain: An Analysis Using Stakeholder Theory, Global Value Chain Theory, and Resource Dependence Theory

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The cocoa‐chocolate value chain faces significant environmental and social challenges, driving firms to adopt sustainability strategies ranging from individual practices to third‐party certifications. This study investigates the factors associated with these strategies by analyzing 304 cocoa‐chocolate companies using firm‐level data from the ...
Stella Marschner, Luigi Orsi, Alessandro Olper, Stefanella Stranieri   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reduced soil moisture caused by human disturbance mediates the biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality across stand ages in the temperate forests of North-Eastern China

Global Ecology and Conservation
Human-influenced soil moisture significantly shapes the biodiversity effects on ecosystem functions in temperate forests. However, its role in regulating the biodiversity effects on ecosystem multifunctionality at different stages of stand development ...
Feifei Zhao, Minhui Hao, Chunyu Fan, Juan Wang, Senxuan Lin, Xiuhai Zhao, Yanxia Cheng, Klaus von Gadow, Chunyu Zhang   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biodiversity and (soil)health

, 2023
A powerpoint slide deck of a presentation given to a group of visiting councillors from Ikast-Brande, Denmark who had an interest in soils, biodiversity, climate change and social resilience.
openaire   +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

Regional Differences in U.S. Consumer Preferences for Native Woody Shrubs With Varying Aesthetic Characteristics

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native plants offer a variety of aesthetic (e.g., fall colour, fruit, flowers) and functional benefits (e.g., pollinator friendly, wildlife friendly, water management). How these benefits influence consumer choice and perceived value of native versus introduced plants is not well understood.
Alicia Rihn, Ariana P. Torres, Sue Barton, Bridget K. Behe   +3 more
wiley   +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