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Breeding by Design: Advances in Vegetables

Horticulturae
As design breeding has been increasingly adopted in staple crops such as rice and maize, its application in vegetable crops is also rapidly expanding—driven by the continuous identification of functional genes and the completion of genome sequencing for numerous vegetable species [...]
Junshen Lin, Yuxin Xie, Yuyang Zhang
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Too Complex to Choose? The Role of Heuristics in Shaping Farmers' Willingness to Pay for Income Stabilization Tool in Italy

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT European agriculture is increasingly exposed to economic instability driven by extreme weather events, market volatility, and geopolitical tensions. To manage these growing risks, farmers are encouraged to adopt innovative risk management strategies such as the Income Stabilization Tool (IST), which offers protection against severe income ...
Alice Stiletto, Ruggiero Rippo, Samuele Trestini, Elisa Giampietri, Roberta Raffaelli, Simone Cerroni   +5 more
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THE PROSPECTS FOR CULTIVATION OF UZORCHATAYA VARIERTY, EDIBLE CHRYSANTHEMUM

Овощи России, 2011
Edible chrysanthemum is a new plant culture that can be very valuable source of vitamins, mineral substances, particularly potassium and biologically active matters.
P.F. Kononkov, M.S. Gins, M.E. Trishin, R.G. Velieva   +3 more
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Classification List for Land Use and Livestock Data [PDF]

, 2006
This classification list for land use and livestock data was processed by the EISfOM project in order to provide a structured classification systematic to obtain comparable data and enable the exchange of data between national and Eurostat databases.
Rippin, Markus
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Seeds of change: The impact of Ethiopia's direct seed marketing approach on smallholders' seed purchases and productivity

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract While multiple factors explain low adoption rates of improved varieties by small‐scale farmers in sub‐Saharan Africa, a key supply‐side constraint is the limited availability of seed embodying new traits in the volume, quality, price, and timeliness required by farmers. This constraint is partly attributable to classical failures in the market
Dawit Mekonnen, Gashaw T. Abate, Seid Yimam, Rui Benfica, David J. Spielman, Frank Place   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leading in agroindustry, research institute for vegetable breeding and seed production marked by 90 year since date of establishment

Овощи России, 2009
In 2010, All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding and Seed Production is celebrating 90 years of existence. This article covers the latest scientific results and current explorations at the Institute.
V.F. Pivovarov, L.K. Gurkina, T.S. Naumenko   +2 more
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Report on the ECO-PB Workshop on the proposed EC Organic Seed Regime 2004 [PDF]

, 2003
From the Introduction to the Proceedings "The European Consortium for Organic Plant Breeding (ECO-PB) is an active network supporting the production and use of organic seeds. It sees the European Union’s Organic Seed Regime as potentially a great step

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Lost in aggregation? On the importance of local food price data for food poverty estimates

American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores within‐country variations in food price dynamics and food poverty estimates by employing local market price data and national consumer price index (CPI) data. Our results show that national CPI data may be useful for approximating national trends but they fail to detect and identify spatial variations in local trends, which
Stephan Dietrich, Valerio Giuffrida, Bruno Martorano, Georg Schmerzeck, Marco Tiberti   +4 more
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Economic efficiency of breeding and seed production in vegetable crops

Овощи России, 2009
The subject of breeding and seed production has been studied as an innovative process, the result of which is new varieties and hybrids. At All-Russian Research Institute of Vegetable Breeding Production where the results of this complex system work can ...
A.N. Chuprov, D.S. Novikov, S.S. Pronin
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Social Determinants of Health and Health‐Related Quality of Life: The Potential Mediating Role of Social Activities, Access to Medical Services, and Access to Social Services

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study explored the mediating influences of access to social activities, social services, and health and medical services on the relationship between social determinants of health and health‐related quality of life. A survey of 602 adults was conducted in a regional area of Australia.
Candice Oster, Ashleigh Powell, Claire Hutchinson, Richard Leibbrandt, Svetlana Bogomolova   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source