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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Every winter, Delhi's polluted air draws national attention to the burning of rice stubble in neighbouring states. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Haryana in north India, this article shows how bureaucrats and scientists attempt to enact certainty around technological solutions to stubble burning even while privately acknowledging their ...
Nikhit Agrawal
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Global whole-genome comparison and analysis to classify subpopulations and identify resistance genes in weedy rice relevant for improving crops. [PDF]
Front Plant Sci, 2022 Han Z +15 more
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The Rice Thresher, Vol. 101, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 4, 2013
, 2013 twelve pages : ill. ; page 17 x 10 3/4 in.A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with ...
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pesticide use is expanding rapidly across sub‐Saharan Africa, while regulatory oversight and public protection structures remain weak, leaving smallholder farmers exposed to mounting health and environmental risks. In response, agrochemical industry actors have launched ‘safe use’ initiatives that emphasize training and personal protective ...
Elina Andersson +2 more
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The Rice Thresher, Vol. 99, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 2014
, 2014 twelve pages : ill. ; page 17 x 10 3/4 in.A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with ...
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No Cocoa Without Deforestation? A Field‐Type Analysis of Forest Frontiers in West Africa
Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper analyses the interrelations of production systems, class relations and deforestation in a smallholder forest frontier. Using the concept of field types, we provide a plot‐level analysis of deforestation processes in West Africa, where smallholders convert forest into cocoa farms.
Sarah Lena Graf +5 more
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The Rice Thresher, Vol. 101, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 30, 2013
, 2013 sixteen pages : ill. ; page 17 x 10 3/4 in.A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with ...
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Journal of Agrarian Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT What do pesticide companies do to keep their products on the market despite strong societal and scientific critiques of their environmental and health risks? This paper examines the herbicide paraquat, one of the most controversial pesticides, from the early 1960s to the present.
Kees Jansen
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The Rice Thresher, Vol. 100, No. 20, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 24, 2016
, 2016 twelve pages : ill. ; page 17 x 10 3/4 in.A weekly student newspaper from the Rice University in Houston, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with ...
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