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Optimize the farming system to improve the physical and chemical properties of soil in Northeast China, thereby increasing maize yield

Frontiers in Plant Science
Northeast China’s black soil region faces soil fertility decline, inadequate straw usage, and low maize yields. To address these issues, we conducted a two-year field experiment. The seven treatments comprised rotary ridge tillage (Con), no-tillage (T1),
Xiangkun Qi, Weidong Huang, Yicong Li, Jiachuang Xie, Fenglin Huang, Yufeng Wang, Jian Fu, Kejun Yang   +7 more
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INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Black Soil Quality Under Contrasting Straw Management–Tillage Systems: Associations with Aggregate Stability and Labile Carbon Dynamics

Agriculture
The degradation of soil structure and organic carbon in the black soil region of Northeast China threatens sustainable crop production, and straw return combined with appropriate tillage may offer an effective strategy for soil restoration.
Meiren Rong, Zhipeng Cheng, Lanfang Bai, Qun Ma, Xingxing Guo, Yao Wu, Tiantian Meng, Jingjing Shi, Hongwei Liang, Fang Luo, Hao Wu, Xiangqian Zhang, Zhigang Wang   +12 more
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GHOSTLY ENCOUNTERS IN LAGOS: Virtual Reality between Urban Marketing and Media Activism

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of virtual reality (VR) technologies in mediating and contesting dominant visions of urban futures in West Africa. Drawing on theoretical insights from a hybridization of the work of the German‐born Jewish critic Walter Benjamin and the Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, I introduce the concept of phantasmagoria as a ...
Hervé Roquet
wiley   +1 more source

Straw return promotes soil organic carbon sequestration through aggregate protection and chemical bonding mediated by iron oxides

Agricultural Ecology and Environment
Straw serves as a major source of soil organic matter, yet the specific pathways and mechanisms by which straw incorporation regulates different forms of iron oxide, and thereby their influence on organic carbon accumulation, remain poorly understood in ...
Bingjie Li, Jing Huang, Lisheng Liu, Dongchu Li, Yinghua Duan, Minggang Xu   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Valorizing Erasure: Imperial Knowledge Production in Anglo‐American Coverage of Chad's ‘Toyota War’

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How does imperial knowledge production operate when Western media coverage of a Global South subject is predominantly admiring instead of hostile? This article addresses that question through critical discourse analysis of sixty‐three Anglo‐American news articles covering the Chad‐Libya conflict of the 1980s, the ‘Toyota War’.
Harmata Aboubakar
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

Natural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina, Jonathan Kwangulero, Jonathan Òlal Ogwang, Natalie Boyd Williams, Elizabeth Tilley   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

George "Pappy" Straw and [Unknown] Blair

, 2010
George "Pappy" Straw and [Unknown] Blair, Inje, Korea, May ...

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Reallocation Effects of Internalizing Externalities: Evidence From China's Straw Burning Ban

Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the reallocation effects of a typical environmental policy aiming to internalize externalities: the straw burning ban across China. The ban prohibited the traditional farming practice of burning straw while compelling the labour‐intensive practice of straw utilization.
Wenyuan Hua
wiley   +1 more source

Fallow Fields, Falling Incomes: The CAP 2023–2027 Framework in the Italian Cereal Sector Champs en jachère, revenus en baisse : Le cadre de la PAC pour 2023–2027 dans le secteur céréalier italien Brachliegende Felder, sinkende Einkommen: Die GAP 2023–2027 im italienischen Getreidesektor

EuroChoices, EarlyView.
Summary Analysis of recent Eurostat data shows a progressive decline in EU cereal production. While cultivated acreage has contracted steadily since 2013, the most severe output reduction occurred during 2022–2024, driving a surge in import volumes. This is mirrored in Italy, exposing systemic vulnerabilities within high‐value agri‐food supply chains ...
Emanuele Spada, Fabian Capitanio, Giacomo Falcone, Giovanni Gulisano, Anna Irene De Luca   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source