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SUGARCANE EXPANSION ON TRIANGULO MINEIRO AND ALTO PARANAÍBA (MG-BRAZIL) ACROSS THE 2000 DECADE: the role of governance

open access: yesArgumentos, 2017
This paper seeks to analyze the role played by governance on the expansion process of sugarcane on TMAP. In order to achieve this goal, quantitative data were collected to illustrate which agricultural activities were substituted by cane. Next,
Bruno Benzaquen Perosa   +2 more
doaj  

An assessment of the vulnerability and adaptation potential of sugarcane production to water stress, southern Africa

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture and Food Research
The high spatial variability of precipitation, heightened frequency of droughts and concomitant increases in exposure to water stress across southern Africa due to climate change, presents significant challenges for sugarcane production and the regional ...
S. Ngcobo   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ploughing for Justice: Land Return, Clientelism and Citizenship in Central Burma

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article asks if clientelism is a form of citizenship in an agrarian society under military domination. It focuses on the efforts made by villagers in central Burma to recover land previously grabbed by force by the military state. A promise of land return during the political transition of the 2010s enabled dispossessed farmers to define ...
Stéphen Huard, Mya Dar Li Thant
wiley   +1 more source

Simulation of the length of sugarcane (Saccharum spp.) crop rows in the operational management of spraying

open access: yesBioscience Journal, 2019
Brazil is the world’s largest producer of sugarcane destined to mills and has an average productivity higher than that of other producing countries of this raw material.
Neisvaldo Barbosa dos Santos
doaj   +3 more sources

Saving energy by improving the moisture of final bagasse using perforated with longitudinal channels rollers cane mills [PDF]

open access: yesEgyptian Sugar Journal
After the process of crushing the sugarcane and extracting the juice, the bagasse remains. The bagasse is used in many industries, such as making paper, wood, fodder and fertilizer, also as fuel that is burned in steam boilers to generate steam used in ...
Mohammed Helal   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Figures of an Agrarian Nation: Indonesia's Agricultural Census, 1963–2023

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Why have Indonesia's decennial agricultural censuses defined their key unit of analysis, the ‘agricultural household’, differently? How do changes to that category shape knowledge production among those who rely on census data? This paper compares definitions of the agricultural household across seven censuses with international ...
Colum Graham
wiley   +1 more source

From Social Justice to Indigenous Peoples' Rights: Continuities and (Re)framings in Ejido Property Claims in Yucatán, Mexico

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how long‐standing local conflicts concerning the nature of common property, the distribution of access and administrative rights associated with it, and more broadly the nature of the community and the forms of citizenship that organise its governance shape demands for justice regarding land transfers to outside investors
Eric Léonard   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pesticide Supply Chains From China to Australia: Examining Paraquat Amid the Global Pesticide Complex

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Following recent calls to deepen understanding of the Global Pesticide Complex, this article delves into the China‐to‐Australia supply chain of a single herbicide—paraquat. First released in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, acutely toxic paraquat is now primarily produced in China.
Sarah Rogers   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a Sugarcane Yield and Productivity Prediction Model

open access: yesInternational Journal of Technology
Indonesia’s sugar industry has yet to become self-sufficient in sugar production. This is due to the unpredictable and fluctuating relationship between yield (sugar content (%)) and sugarcane productivity (Ton/Ha) in all state-owned and private ...
Napthaleni Napthaleni, Muhammad Asrol
doaj   +1 more source

‘Civilizing’ Smallholders Through Oil Palm: The Politics of Subsumption Across Southern Mexico's Commodity Frontiers

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While most frontier studies associate commodity expansions with dispossession, I argue that such expansions can also function as ‘civilizational’ projects aimed at overcoming traditional farming and creating new rural subjects better suited to the needs of capitalist development. Using a Gramscian approach to study subsumption, I analyse three
Antonio Castellanos‐Navarrete
wiley   +1 more source

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