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Different Human–Dog Interactions in Early Agricultural Societies of China, Revealed by Coprolite

Frontiers in Earth Science, 2021
Dogs served in a variety of capacities in prehistory. After their domestication in Paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies, the emergence of agriculture shifted their partnerships with people.
Yunan Zhang, Yunan Zhang, Guoping Sun, Dong Zhang, Xiaoyan Yang, Xiaohong Wu   +5 more
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Vývoj interakce přírodního prostředí a subsistenční strategie raně středověké společnosti: Pohansko u Břeclavi a okolí

Archeologické Rozhledy, 2020
Multidisciplinární výzkum založený na korelaci a interpretaci dat získaných archeologickými a přírodovědnými metodami. Hlavním cílem je rekonstrukce interakce faktorů životního prostředí a životních podmínek lidských komunit od 6. do počátku 12. století.
Nela Doláková, Petr Kočár, Petr Dresler, Gabriela Dreslerová, Romana Kočárová, Martin Ivanov, Slavomír Nehyba   +6 more
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Do Socio-Economic Indicators Associate with Covid-2019 Cases? Findings from a Philippine Study

IMCC Journal of Science, 2021
In this study, seven socio-economic indicators were associated with Covid-2019 cases across 17 regions in the Philippines. The number of Covid-2019 cases as of April 7, 2020, was considered for the analysis.
Mark Alipio, Grace Meroflor Lantajo
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Traditional Knowledge About Polar Bears (Ursus maritimus) in East Greenland: Changes in the Catch and Climate Over Two Decades

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
In Greenland, polar bears (Ursus maritimus) are nutritional, economic, and cultural subsistence resources for Inuit. Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) collected from subsistence hunters can provide important insights and improve management decisions
Kristin L. Laidre, Allison D. Northey, Fernando Ugarte   +2 more
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Early to Middle Holocene Estuarine Shellfish Collecting on the Islands and Mainland Coast of the Santa Barbara Channel, California, USA

Open Quaternary, 2020
Terminal Pleistocene to Middle Holocene sea level rise resulted in a number of changes to coastal ecosystems around the world, providing new challenges and opportunities for coastal peoples.
Torben C. Rick
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Assessment of a pragmatic strategy to improve health of kacang goats in subsistence agricultural communities in Indonesian Borneo

Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics, 2019
Poverty limits options available to smallholder, subsistence farmers to prevent or reverse livestock malnutrition and endoparasitism, two of the global drivers of goat morbidity and mortality in resource-constrained, tropical, agricultural communities ...
Jeffrey D. Wyatt, Andrew N. Winterborn, Ibu Setiawati, Yusuf Muhammad   +3 more
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
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Cash crop or food crop? socioeconomic and geopolitical factors affecting smallholder farmer crop selection in times of crisis in southwestern Tajikistan

Frontiers in Agronomy, 2023
Tajikistan's agricultural sector, primarily dominated by cotton cultivation, has experienced significant changes since the Soviet era. Although farmers introduced food crops into agricultural production to ensure food security after the collapse of the ...
Aksana Zakirova, Aksana Zakirova, Henryk Alff, Matthias Schmidt   +3 more
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Evaluating Differences in Household Subsistence Harvest Patterns between the Ambler Project and Non-Project Zones [PDF]

, 2016
Western Alaska is one of largest inhabited, roadless areas in North America and, indeed, the world. Access, via a new road that would transverse Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve (GAAR), to a mining district in a vast roadless section of ...
Greenberg, Joshua, Guettabi, Mouhcine, Joly, Kyle, Little, Joseph   +3 more
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Foreign labor, peer‐networking and agricultural efficiency in the Italian dairy sector

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract While the presence of immigrants in the agricultural sector is widely acknowledged, the empirical evidence on its economic consequences is lacking, especially from a microeconomic perspective. Using the Farm Accountancy Data Network panel data for Italian dairy farms in the period 2008–2018, the present study investigates the relationship ...
Federico Antonioli, Simone Severini, Mauro Vigani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source