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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

Contract Farming and Children's Education: Evidence From Maize Producers in Ghana

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming (CF) has continued to proliferate in the small farm sector of developing countries. While its effects on smallholders across welfare outcomes such as income and food security have been well documented, there are growing concerns about its broader social implications especially on children.
Francis E. Ndip, Abraham M. Adongo, Perez L. Kemeni Kambiet   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sympatric genetic divergence between early- and late-season weedy rice populations. [PDF]

New Phytol, 2022
Wang Z, Cai X, Jiang XQ, Xia QY, Li LF, Lu BR.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Toxicity of Four Common Environmental Chemicals Across Caenorhabditis elegans Life Stages Supporting the One Health Concept

Environmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Pesticides and pharmaceuticals are among the most common chemical groups in waterbodies and soils, and their universal distribution raises concerns about potential adverse effects on nontarget organisms and humans. Reproductive output disruption is of particular concern, as it transposes effects from the individual to the next generations at ...
Fábio Campos, Maria D. Pavlaki, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares, Susana Loureiro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Porous borders at the wild-crop interface promote weed adaptation in Southeast Asia

Nature Communications
High reproductive compatibility between crops and their wild relatives can provide benefits for crop breeding but also poses risks for agricultural weed evolution.
Lin-Feng Li, Tonapha Pusadee, Marshall J. Wedger, Ya-Ling Li, Ming-Rui Li, Yee-Ling Lau, Soo-Joo Yap, Sansanee Jamjod, Benjavan Rerkasem, Yan Hao, Beng-Kah Song, Kenneth M. Olsen   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Genomic revolution of US weedy rice in response to 21st century agricultural technologies. [PDF]

Commun Biol, 2022
Wedger MJ, Roma-Burgos N, Olsen KM.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dwelling in a post‐fallout landscape: re‐shaping and sustaining life in a former evacuation zone in Fukushima Habiter après la catastrophe : redonner forme au monde et entretenir la vie dans une ancienne zone évacuée à Fukushima

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article explores the activities of daily life in a village neighbouring the TEPCO nuclear power plant in Fukushima. It argues that one of the potentials of taking a dwelling perspective – a phenomenological approach to living within the ecological and social environments – emerges most compellingly within a polluted landscape.
Tomoko Sakai
wiley   +1 more source

Compared analysis with a high-quality genome of weedy rice reveals the evolutionary game of de-domestication. [PDF]

Front Plant Sci, 2022
Ma J, Wei H, Yu X, Lv Y, Zhang Y, Qian Q, Shang L, Guo L.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

WASTELAND ACTIVISM: Political Weeds and Ecological Imaginaries in Montreal

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Montreal, this article examines the ways in which urban dwellers and activists engage with the living materialities of wastelands to illuminate evolving ecological imaginaries and their political potentials.
Daniela Giudici
wiley   +1 more source

Transcriptomic and QTL Analysis of Seed Germination Vigor under Low Temperature in Weedy Rice WR04-6. [PDF]

Plants (Basel), 2023
Wang W, Huang R, Wu G, Sun J, Zhu Y, Wang H.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source