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Food security, risk management and climate change [PDF]

, 2012
This report identifies major constraints to the adaptive capacity of food organisations operating in Australia. This report is about food security, climate change and risk management.
Rachel Crossley, David Michael
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Resistant Peanut Genotype Reprograms Rhizosphere Metabolism to Enhance Bacterial Wilt Suppression

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The resistant peanut genotype selectively recruits beneficial bacteria, which coincides with the activation of salicylic acid (SA)‐dependent systemic acquired resistance (SAR) against Ralstonia solanacearum. Keystone rhizosphere metabolites are positively correlated with both beneficial microbiome assembly and SAR gene expression.
Rui Ren, Xiaogang Li, Hao Li, Zenghui Cao, Mengtian Hou, Chunlei Zhao, Nan Lou, Sasa Hu, Yanzhe Li, Qian Ma, Yaoyao Li, Yi Fan, Kunkun Zhao, Kai Zhao, Ding Qiu, Fangping Gong, Zhongfeng Li, Haitao Liu, Xingli Ma, Xingxiang Wang, Dongmei Yin   +20 more
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Index based compensation for weather risk in the Italian agriculture. A feasibility study based on actual historic data

The paper explores the feasibility of the use of weather index based derivatives for farms' risk management in an Italian province. Based on a combination of detailed local weather data and of data on farms' yields, various possible weather indexes are ...
Angelucci, Federica, Capitanio, Fabian, Cafiero, Carlo, Vollaro, Michele   +3 more
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Tumor‐Specific Delivery of CD28 siRNA via Lyso‐PC C‐16 Modified Lipid Nanoparticles Overcomes Anti‐PD‐1 Resistance by Remodeling Tumor Microenvironment

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops 16:0 LPC‐modified lipid nanoparticles (LPC‐LNPs) with cancer cell specificity by exploiting altered tumor lipid metabolism. LPC‐LNPs encapsulating Cd28 small interfering RNA (LPC‐LNP‐Cd28) knock down cancer cell CD28 without affecting T cells, inflame the tumor microenvironment, and overcome anti‐PD‐1 resistance.
Yangyang Chai, Keyu Wang, Jiali Fang, Shaorui Jia, Yansong Shi, Wanfeng Gao, Xinpeng Liu, Jiaqiang Li, Zenghui Cui, Yazhi Qian, Xiaosu Chen, Dan Ding, Xuetao Cao   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Design of Weather Bonds

Replaced with revised version of paper 06/17/08.weather risk, weather bonds, reinsurance, securitisation, Agricultural Finance, Risk and Uncertainty,
Odening, Martin, Musshoff, Oliver, Xu, Wei   +2 more
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Causal‐Guided Ultra‐Long‐Term Time Series Forecasting Via Anticipated Covariates

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Often treated as unknown, information from the future remains underutilized.We demonstrate that in a coupled dynamical system, providing the future state of the effect enables accurate forecasting of the cause for a long timesteps. A time series forecasting paradigm that introduces anticipated covariates to represent such known future states is ...
Jintong Zhao, Yufei Liu, Ruixi Huang, Zhongxue Gan, Siyang Leng   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial and Temporal On-Farm Risk Management - Crop Production Scheduling and Index Insurance Strategies

An agronomic crop growth model, Decision Support System for Agro-Technology Transfer (DSSAT), is used to find optimal crop management strategies for cotton production in Mitchell, Miller, and Lee Counties in Georgia during the past 10 years.
Lin, Shanshan, Hoogenboom, Gerrit, Mullen, Jeffrey D.   +2 more
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Pitfalls and potential of institutional change: Rain-index insurance and the sustainability of rangeland management [PDF]

Rain-index insurance is strongly advocated in many parts of the developing world to help farmers to cope with climatic risk that prevail in (semi-)arid rangelands due to low and highly uncertain rainfall.
Karin Frank, Birgit Müller, Martin Quaas, Stefan Baumgärtner   +3 more
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Strain‐Adaptive Dielectric Metamaterials via Bioinspired “Ligament‐Bone” Architecture for Ultrahigh‐Energy Capacitive Storage

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A bioinspired strain‐adaptive ligament‐bone architecture achieves record‐high energy density of 26.1 J cm−3 and 90% efficiency at 600 MV m−1, coupled with a Young's modulus of 2.13 GPa. ABSTRACT Polymer dielectrics for capacitive energy storage face fundamental trade‐offs between breakdown strength, energy density, efficiency, and mechanical robustness.
Jian Wang, Xinyu Wang, Jiabao Wang, Biyun Peng, Yifei Zhang, Ning Zhu, Xin Hu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Weather derivatives: Concept and application for their use in South Africa

Recent innovations in energy markets suggest the possibility of addressing agricultural risk factors by issuing derivatives on weather elements. Such instruments appear particularly attractive, as asymmetric information and loss adjustment issues do not ...
Geyser, J.M.
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