Search Results - "Sichuan"

CASREN in Sichuan by International Livestock Research Institute

“…The video starts with a geographic discription of Sichuan, a town located in South East China. Sichuan is a major pig producer in China. …”
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Living Like There's No Tomorrow: Saving and Spending Following the Sichuan Earthquake by Filipski, Mateusz J., Jin, Ling, Chen, Kevin Z., Zhang, Xiaobo

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Living like there’s no tomorrow: Saving and spending following the Sichuan earthquake by Filipski, Mateusz J., Jin, Ling, Zhang, Xiaobo, Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Based on panel datasets from China’s Sichuan province, which was struck by an earthquake in 2008, and using distance from epicenter as a proxy for earthquake severity, we empirically show that the saving and consumption behavior of households closer to the epicenter changed after the earthquake. …”
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Experience with aeroponics for pre-basic seed potato production in Sichuan, China by He, W., Xie, K.Y., Vander Zaag, P.

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Farmers' coping strategies against an aggregate shock: Evidence from the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake by Jin, Ling, Chen, Kevin Z., Yu, Bingxin, Filipski, Mateusz J.

“…Using unique datasets collected before and after the disastrous 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the effectiveness of various coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. …”
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An impact evaluation of technology adoption by smallholders in Sichuan, China: The case of sweet potato-pig systems by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Toan, N.N., Zou, C., Liu, J., Li, X., Randolph, Thomas F.

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Assessing the impact of feed technology adoption by smallholders in sweet potato-pig systems in Sichuan, China by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Nguyen Ngoc Toan, Chengyi Zou, Jinyuan Liu, Xianglin Li, Randolph, Thomas F.

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An impact evaluation of technology adoption by smallholders in Sichuan, China: The case of sweet potato-pig systems by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Toan, N.N., Zou, C., Liu, J., Li, X., Randolph, Thomas F.

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An impact evaluation of technology adoption by smallholders in Sichuan, China: The case of sweet potato-pig systems by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Nguyen Ngoc Toan, Chengyi Zou, Jinyuan Liu, Xianglin Li, Randolph, Thomas F.

“…We employ propensity score matching (PSM) framework to examine the impact of sweet potatobased feed technology adoption on household-based pig production in Sichuan, China. An ex post survey in six villages was conducted in 2009, of which five villages were in project intervention sites (exposed area) and one village in the same township but not exposed to project intervention (nonexposed area). …”
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Assessing the impact of feed technology adoption by smallholders in sweet potato-pig systems in Sichuan, China by Lapar, Ma. Lucila, Toan, N.N., Zou, C., Liu, J., Li, X., Randolph, Thomas F.

“…This paper employs propensity score matching (PSM) to examine the impact of sweet potato-based feed technology adoption on household-based pig production in Sichuan, China. An ex post survey in six villages was conducted in 2009. …”
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Smallholder participation in hog insurance and willingness to pay for improved policies: Evidence from Sichuan province in China by Chen, Kevin Z., Hu, Wuyang, Xiao, Chengwei, Xing, Li

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Nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching from a rain-fed wheat-maize rotation in the Sichuan Basin, China by Minghua Zhou, Bo Zhu, Butterbach-Bahl, Klaus, Xunhua Zheng, Tao Wang, Yanqiang Wang

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Assessing the impact of the SASA/CASREN technology interventions in the sweet potato-pig production systems in Zitong County (Sichuan, China) by Pezo, Danilo A.

“…The present paper describes the processes applied by the Sichuan Animal Science Academy (SASA)/CASREN Team in Zitong County in order to improve the sweet potato-based pig production systems that are predominantly present in that area, which is representative of the rainfed uplands of Sichuan Province (China). …”
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中国西部农户的疾病成本及其应对策略分析—— 基于一个四川省样本的经验研究 by Jiang, Yuansheng, von Braun, Joachim

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The effect of the Wenchuan earthquake and government aid on rural households by Feng, Shuaizhang, Lu, Jingliang, Nolen, Patrick, Wang, Lei

“…This chapter discusses the impact of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake on household income, consumption, and income inequality using a unique dataset collected in rural Sichuan. …”
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Genetic diversity of tartary buckwheat based on the sequence analysis of PAL by Li, M., Zhang, Z., Wu, B., Gao, J., Li, Y.

“…The intra-specific mean distance of the Sichuan group was 0. 016,while the tartary buckwheat from Inner Mongolia group showed that the intra-specific mean distance was 0. 002. …”
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Effectiveness of rural households' coping strategies against aggregate shocks by Jin, Ling, Filipski, Mateusz J., Chen, Kevin Z.

“…Using unique datasets collected before and after the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, this paper examines the performance of all the principal coping strategies employed by the affected rural households. …”
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Mapping the potential northern limits and promotion extent of ratoon rice in China by Yang, Jingya, Hu, Qiong, You, Liangzhi, Cai, Zhiwen, Chen, Yunping, Wei, Haodong, Xu, Zilu, He, Zhen, Yin, Gaofei, Xu, Baodong

“…Potential northern limits contained a closed curve surrounding the Sichuan Basin, and the other curve ran from Yunnan Province to Jiangsu Province. …”
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Unveiling the heterosis pattern of modern maize breeding in Southwest China through population structure and genetic diversity analysis by Ma, Peng, Zhang, Hua, Shui, Hongxia, Zhang, Xuecai, Wang, Xiuquan, Gao, Shibin, Zhang, Haiying, Nie, Zhi, Qing, Chunyan, Lu, Tingqi, Pang, Qihua, Pei, Wenzheng, Chen, Hongmei, He, Chenyan, Luo, Bowen, He, Dan

“…Taken together, the results provide insight into the utilization of the current maize germplasm in Sichuan province to improve hybrid breeding.…”
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How do earthquakes shape economic behavior? by Chen, Kevin Z., Filipski, Mateusz J., Zhang, Xiaobo

“…Research shows how a disaster can impact an economy beyond the simple rebuilding process. The Sichuan earthquake induced a lifestyle shift in households toward greater spending and a structural shift of the economy away from industrial production.…”
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