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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva, Angel Perni, Jesus Barreiro‐Hurle   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Policy uncertainty shocks and farm investments in Europe: Evidence from a newspaper‐based index

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract In order to quantify the impact of agricultural policy uncertainty on European farmers' investment behavior, we construct a newspaper‐based monthly index of European agricultural policy uncertainty from 2013 to 2023. We use 327,224 newspaper articles to assess and compare the trends in policy uncertainty across five top agricultural producers ...
Viviana Garcia, Scott M. Swinton, Robert Finger   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Land use patterns and climate change—a modeled scenario of the Late Bronze Age in Southern Greece

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
In this study, we present a modeling approach that investigates how much cultivable land was required to supply a society and whether societies were in need when environmental conditions deteriorated.
Daniel Knitter, Gerrit Günther, Wolfgang Berengar Hamer, Torben Keßler, Joana Seguin, Ingmar Unkel, Erika Weiberg, Rainer Duttmann, Oliver Nakoinz   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

First Record of Tasmanian Devils in the Pilbara: Late Quaternary Subfossils From Juukan Gorge, Puutu Kunti Kurrama Country, and Insights Into Human—Faunal Relationships and Extinction

Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first unequivocal evidence for the presence of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) in the Pilbara region of northwestern Australia, based on material recovered from archaeological excavations at Juukan Gorge on Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura country.
Timothy J. Churchill, Michael Slack, Elise Matheson, Liam Neill, Wanchese M. Saktura, Gavin Ashburton   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A microeconomic analysis of subsistence [PDF]

, 2021
We present a microeconomic analysis of subsistence in the consumer theory framework with two goods: the basic good (food) and the non-basic good (non-food).
Mitra, Manipushpak, Sen, Debapriya
core   +1 more source

The Economic and Ecological Impact of Dairy Production in Alpine Prehistory: A Numerical Approach

Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
The dairy industry has played a central role in the economy of the Alps for many centuries, and archaeological evidence suggests a prehistoric origin for this practice.
Francesco Carrer
doaj   +1 more source

Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics [PDF]

Science, 2008
Antibiotics are a crucial line of defense against bacterial infections. Nevertheless, several antibiotics are natural products of microorganisms that have as yet poorly appreciated ecological roles in the wider environment. We isolated hundreds of soil bacteria with the capacity to grow on antibiotics as a sole carbon source.
Gautam, Dantas, Morten O A, Sommer, Rantimi D, Oluwasegun, George M, Church   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources