Search Results - "Decadence"

The genes and genomes of the potato by Ghislain, M., Douches, D.S.

“…During the last decade, genomics research has generated new insights into potato genetics and made possible new strategies for varietal improvement. …”
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Determinants of changes in harvested area and yields of major crops in China by Yin, Fang, Sun, Zhanli, You, Liangzhi, Müller, Daniel

“…Global agricultural production has risen substantially in recent decades and needs to rise further to meet the ever-growing food demand. …”
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The evolving livestock sector in Ethiopia: Growth by heads, not by productivity by Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart, Tadesse, Fanaye, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Overall livestock output has grown rapidly over the last decade, estimated at almost 6 percent per year, but about 80 percent of that growth came from increases in the number of livestock. …”
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Large-scale fire: creator and destroyer of secondary forests in Western Indonesia by Dennis, R.A., Hoffmann, A., Applegate, G., Gemmingen, G. von, Kartawinata, K.

“…Large scale, catastrophic fires have become a significant and visible part of the tropical forest landscape in the past two decades with increased commercial exploitation of forests, forest conversion and increased population pressure. …”
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Is agricultural adaptation to global change in lower-income countries on track to meet the future food production challenge? by Thornton, Philip K., Kristjanson, Patricia M., Förch, Wiebke, Barahona, Carlos, Cramer, Laura K., Pradhan, Sonali

“…While farmers have made some changes in their farming practices over the last decade, most changes have been incremental and piecemeal. …”
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The future of food: biotechnology markets and policies in an international setting by Pardey, Philip G.

“…Everyone agrees that feeding the world in the decades ahead will require substantial increases in crop yields. …”
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The evolution of Chinese entrepreneurial firms: Township-village enterprises revisited by Xu, Chenggang, Zhang, Xiaobo

“…As private ownership was gradually recognized legally, TVEs lost their edge in competing with private firms. In the past two decades, industrial clusters with a concentration of private entrepreneurial firms coordinated by local governments have emerged rapidly in many areas. …”
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AgTrials: Repurposing data for adaptation research by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…The AgTrials database collects decades of agricultural field experiments to help understand and adapt to climate change impacts.…”
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Predicting famer demand for Bt Maize in Kenya by Smale, Melinda, de Groote, Hugo, Owuor, George

“…Corn Belt in preceding decades (Gerhart 1975). In the past few decades, however, a number of factors have contributed to stagnating national maize production, including a secular (long-term) decline in soil fertility and decreasing public research investments.…”
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Editorial: the livestock revolution and ICTs by Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation

“…Over the last decade the growing global demand for livestock products has given rise to a real ´livestock revolution´.…”
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Maintenance of UK bread baking quality: Trends in wheat quality traits over 50 years of breeding and potential for future application of genomic-assisted selection by Fradgley, Nick, Bentley, Alison R., Gardner, Keith A., Swarbreck, Stéphanie M., Kerton, Matthew

“…Changes in the frequency of positive alleles of QTL over recent decades reflected trends in trait variation and reveal where progress has historically been made for improved baking quality traits. …”
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Agricultural intensification: Who intensifies and how does it contribute to income growth? by Berhane, Guush, Abate, Gashaw T., Wolle, Abdulazize

“…Ethiopia has made substantial efforts in the last three decades to increase agricultural productivity through modern input intensification and stimulate overall economic growth. …”
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Evolving livestock sector by Bachewe, Fantu Nisrane, Minten, Bart, Tadesse, Fanaye, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum

“…Overall livestock output is shown to have grown rapidly over the past decade, estimated at almost 6 percent per year, but about 80 percent of that growth came from increases in the number of livestock. …”
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The impact of climate change on African economies and opportunities for agrifood system transformation by Tankari, Mahamadou, Fofana, Ismael

“…As in the rest of the world, the climate is changing in Africa, with data showing a slightly faster warming trend than the global average of around +0.2°C per decade for the 1991–2022 period. In Africa, the average rate of change of temperature was around +0.3°C per decade between 1991 and 2022, while it was estimated at +0.2°C per decade between 1961 and 1990. …”
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Implications of farming trends for agricultural research in mainland Southeast Asia by Cramb, R.A., Gray, G.D., Gummert, M., Haefele, S.M., Lefroy, Rod D.B., Newby, Jonathan Craig, Stür, Werner W., Warr, P.

“…In this chapter we review the farming trends in the region and highlight the implications for agricultural research in coming decades.…”
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Population viability analysis of the Danube sturgeon populations by Jarić, Ivan

“…Populations of six sturgeon species in the Danube River (Beluga, Russian sturgeon, Stellate sturgeon, Sterlet, Ship sturgeon and Atlantic sturgeon) have experienced severe decline during the last several decades, mostly due to the unsustainable fishery, river fragmentation and water pollution. …”
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How countries can reduce child stunting at scale: Lessons from exemplar countries by Bhutta, Zulfiqar A., Akseer, Nadia, Keats, Emily C., Vaivada, Tyler, Baker, Shawn, Horton, Susan E., Katz, Joanne, Menon, Purnima, Piwoz, Ellen, Shekar, Meera, Victoria, Cesar, Black, Robert

“…Child stunting and linear growth faltering have declined over the past few decades and several countries have made exemplary progress.…”
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Climate change and food supplies: bit of a drag or major upheaval? by Vermeulen, Sonja J.

“…The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change confirms that in the next few decades climate change will result in crop losses. …”
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The influence of local environmental and socio-economic conditions on the impacts of ash storms by Forte, Pablo, Dominguez, Lucia, Bonadonna, Constanza, Lamberti, Maria Clara, Gregg, Chris E., Bran, Donaldo Eduardo, Castro, Jonathan M.

“…Volcanic ash wind-induced remobilization events have increasingly been reported in different areas around the worl during the last decades…”
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Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) with vegan and BiodiversityR, including a graphical method to identify potential migrants by Kindt, R.

“…Whereas the manual is now more than a decade old (although many methods are still relevant; those interested could compare with this recent Review of Best Practices Population Genetic Analysis), in my opinion it remains valid to still highlight the connections between AMOVA and several methods of community ecology that are directly available via the vegan and BiodiversityR packages.…”
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