ABSTRACT Sugar crops, including but not limited to sugarcane, sugar beet, sweet sorghum and stevia, are major sources of sugar production in the world. However, conventional breeding approaches, limited by long breeding cycles, low efficiency and restricted capacity to improve complex traits in sugar crops, are increasingly insufficient to address the ...
Peilin Wang +7 more
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Holding on to tradition: continuation of ethnic and festival food traditions by Nepalese students in the United States. [PDF]
Karki A +3 more
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The Coloniality of Measurement and the Making of Smallness as Deficit
ABSTRACT In global environmental governance, small island developing states (SIDS) are routinely described as vulnerable, fragile and capacity constrained. These characteristics are treated as natural consequences of smallness and are frequently interpreted as markers of deficit, despite the diversity, agency and resilience that characterise many SIDS.
Stacy‐ann Robinson
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Forest Degradation as a Potential Driver of Shifting Baseline Syndrome in Northeastern Brazil: A Case Study. [PDF]
da Silva WF +3 more
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Cultural practices for large cassava plantations
Meeting: Cassava Cultural Practices, 18-21 Mar.
Correa, H.
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ABSTRACT The invasive weed Parthenium hysterophorus L. presents a severe socio‐economic threat to Ugandan agriculture. This nationwide study of 244 farmers in infested districts reveals near‐universal recognition of the weed and widespread negative impacts: 88.3% of the farmers report increased labour demands, 62.1% cite yield reduction and significant
Irene Bayiyana +6 more
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The political economy of novel food taxes and subsidies in India: insights from stakeholder interviews and a scoping review. [PDF]
Summan A +3 more
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Soil related cultural practices for cassava
Meeting: Cassava Cultural Practices, 18-21 Mar.
Howeler, R.H.
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Biocultural Ethnoecology of <i>Nasua narica</i> (Procyonidae, Mammalia) in Northeastern Oaxaca, México. [PDF]
Vásquez-Dávila MA +4 more
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Transgenic sugarcane harboring <i>cry1Ab</i> and <i>vip3Aa</i> Bt genes for the management of <i>Diatraea saccharalis</i>. [PDF]
Budeguer F +6 more
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