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Voluntary Collective Action to Address Growing Agricultural Challenges in Two Countries: Experimental Insights and Commonalities

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We conducted two framed field economic experiments with citrus farmers in Florida, United States and soybean farmers in Argentina to investigate their willingness to coordinate pest and weed management efforts. Despite the contrast between these two agricultural contexts, we find striking behavioral commonalities.
Ariel Singerman, Sergio H. Lence
wiley   +1 more source

Restoring degraded soils: The transformative impact of Fanya Juu terraces on soil characteristics in the erosion-prone Magera watershed, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

PLoS One
Falta FF, Fakana ST, Kassie NK.
europepmc   +1 more source

Complementary or Competitive? Emerging Interactions Between Restoration and Protection in the Conservation Reserve Program

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The USDA's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) delivers environmental benefits to society by enrolling cropland and grasslands to reestablish or safeguard long‐term vegetative cover. In recent years, the CRP has dramatically increased grassland enrollment while cropland enrollment has been in steady decline. This paper uses descriptive analysis,
Wesley Zebrowski, Tyler Lark, Rich Iovanna   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Imputing unjustified bulk density values to soils with biochar addition biases soil carbon sequestration estimates. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
Sun D.
europepmc   +1 more source

Heavy Metal Contamination: Impacts From Plants to the Food Chain and Eco‐Friendly Amelioration Strategies

AgriFood: Journal of Agricultural Products for Food, EarlyView.
Heavy metal pollution reduces soil health and threatens food safety by entering plants; however, the use of nanoparticles, biofertilizers, and organic fertilizers such as biochar offers a promising strategy for improvement and sustainable agriculture. ABSTRACT Heavy metal (HM) pollution, resulting from human activities such as mining and the excessive ...
Sina Siavash Moghaddam, Latifeh Pourakbar, Sevda Alizadeh, Zahra Alizadeh, Jelena Popović‐Djordjević   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Saturation of space weathering in shaping lunar regolith particle morphology. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Luo A, Cui Y, Wang G, Nie J, Xu C, Zhang Z, Zhang J, Li Y, Zhao Q, He H.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

How Competitive Is Myanmar's Rice Sector? A Comparison of Production Costs and Efficiency

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the cost competitiveness of rice production in Myanmar by examining production costs, cost efficiency, and the potential effect of improving cost efficiency on the country's global competitiveness. To achieve this, we conduct a comparative analysis of production costs among major rice‐producing countries and estimate the ...
Nandar Aye Chan, Orkhan Sariyev, Mohammad Ariful Islam, Manfred Zeller   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Root decomposition affects soil hydraulic properties in four contrasting herbaceous species. [PDF]

Plant Soil
Boldrin D, Leung AK, Marin M, Knappett JA, Bengough AG, Loades KW.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

An example of land-use relaxation and its effect on soil stabilization in the catchment of Lake Lavijärvi, Russian Karelia: insights from multi-proxy sediment analysis. [PDF]

J Paleolimnol
Haas M, Ajallooeian F, Belkina NA, Subetto DA, Haghipour N, Welte C, Schubert CJ, Eglinton TI, Dubois N.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Tidal Wetland Soil Carbon Accumulation Rates for Coastal California. [PDF]

Sci Data
Holmquist JR, Brown LN, Fard E, Ambrose RF, Hargan KE, Hammond DE, Kemnitz NJ, Smol JP, Thorne K, MacDonald GM.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source