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South Africa as the actor and the intermediary of Africa's agricultural transformation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
L'Afrique du Sud investit dans l'agriculture de 28 pays africains, par l'exportation de ses agriculteurs, de son industrie agroalimentaire, et de son expertise technique et managériale.
Anseeuw, Ward   +2 more
core  

4‐Hydroxybenzyl Alcohol Mitigates Hyperlipidemia‐Associated Depression by Inhibiting Neuroinflammation via the NKIRAS2/NF‐κB Pathway

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
4‐HBA upregulates NKIRAS2 levels, inhibiting the activation of the NF‐κB pathway and subsequently reducing the levels of neuroinflammatory markers. This modulation helps restore normal mood and behavior in hyperlipidemic conditions, providing a potential therapeutic strategy for managing hyperlipidemia‐associated depression.
Ying Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk governance in agriculture [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper identifies and assesses the efficiency of major modes for risk governance in agriculture on the base of Bulgarian dairy farming. Firstly, the New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics is incorporated and a framework for analysis of the
Bachev, Hrabrin
core   +1 more source

Contract Farming for Better Farmer-Enterprise Partnerships: ADB\u27s Experience in the People\u27s Republic of China [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
[Excerpt] Agriculture should provide safe and nutritious food to people. In the People’s Republic of China (PRC ) and many other developing members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), agriculture is also the main source of income for rural residents ...
Asian Development Bank
core   +1 more source

A Feasibility Study on the Use of a Structured Light Depth-Camera for Three-Dimensional Body Measurements of Dairy Cows in Free-Stall Barns [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Frequent checks on livestock\u2019s body growth can help reducing problems related to cow infertility or other welfare implications, and recognizing health\u2019s anomalies. In the last ten years, optical methods have been proposed to extract information
Guarino, Marcella   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Long‐Tea‐CLIP: An Expert‐Level Multimodal AI Framework for Fine‐Grained Green Tea Grading Across Five Sensory Dimensions

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Long‐Tea‐CLIP (Contrastive Language‐Image Pre‐training) presents a multimodal AI framework that integrates visual, metabolomic, and sensory knowledge to grade green tea across appearance, soup color, aroma, taste, and infused leaf. By combining expert‐guided modeling with CLIP‐supervised learning, the system delivers fine‐grained quality evaluation and
Yanqun Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade, Standards and Poverty. Evidence from Senegal [PDF]

open access: yes
The debate on trade and poverty is reinforced by recent studies on the role of standards. It is argued that increasing standards act as trade barriers for developing countries and cause further marginalization of the poor.
Maertens, Miet, Swinnen, Johan F.M.
core   +1 more source

Dundee Discussion Papers in Economics 178:The impact of farm income support on absolute inequality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper focuses on the impact of agricultural support policies on the distribution of farming incomes, using measures to characterise and quantify the redistributive effects that are based on the change in the absolute Gini index.
Allanson, Paul
core   +1 more source

RENAL‐CHIP: Rejection Evaluation via Non‐Invasive Analysis of Circulating Podocytes With Herringbone‐Chip Isolation Platform

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
RENAL‐CHIP converts 1 mL of peripheral blood into a biopsy‐equivalent readout of renal‐allograft fate. By magnetic capture and release of donor‐derived circulating podocytes through a herringbone microfluidic chip, 84% capture, 96% release and single‐cell RNA evidence of rejection‐specific immunity are achieved.
Juan Song   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Risk Governance in Bulgarian Dairy Farming [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper identifies and assesses the efficiency of major modes for risk governance in Bulgarian dairy farming. Firstly, New Institutional Economics is incorporated and framework for analyzing governance of natural, market, private, and social ...
Bachev, Hrabrin Ianouchev, Nanseki, T.
core   +1 more source

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