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Mapping historical and contemporary agrarian transformations and capitalist infiltration in a complex upland environment: A case from eastern Nepal por Sugden, F., Seddon, D., Raut, M.

“…In recent years, the expansion of markets, rising demand for cash, and climate stress have solidified migrant labour as a core component of livelihoods, and the primary mechanism of surplus appropriation from the hill peasantry. …”
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Perceptions of Trees Outside Forests in Cattle Pastures: Land Sharing Within the Central Volcanic Talamanca Biological Corridor, Costa Rica por Sibelet, Nicole, Chamayou, Lucile, Newing, Helen, Gutiérrez Montes, Isabel A.

“…Farmers reported limitations to the maintenance of trees (lack of financial capital, labour, land area, technical assistance, and adapted species). …”
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Predicting the future of China's energy demand in terms of directed technological change por Zhang, Miao

“…In this paper, we examine the evolution of long-run energy demand owing to directed technological change (DTC) and predict the future behaviour of the energy demand in China by setting up a theoretical model of DTC with two inputs, energy and labour, and interactional factoraugmenting knowledge, then simulating the model with data about China since 1980. …”

Interseeding timing of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L. Walp.) living mulch on weed diversity, physical soil properties and performance of maize (Zea mays L.) por Berdjour, A.

“…Alternatively, those face with labour scarcity could adopt maize with cowpea interseeded at 1 WAPM.…”
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Quantitative gender analysis country report, Uganda: Building equitable climate resilient African bean and insect sectors por Babirye, Immaculate, Ouya, Frederick, Mugagga, Isaac, Paparu, Pamela, Lutomia, Cosmas, Ketema, Dessalegn, Nchanji, Eileen

“…Women are the primary labour providers on bean plots (71% overall), influence crucial production decisions, and achieve higher yields than men while having much lower landholdings. …”
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Market orientation of smallholders in selected grains in Ethiopia: implications for enhancing commercial transformation of subsistence agriculture por Gebremedhin, Berhanu, Hoekstra, Dirk

“…Improving the operations of factor markets of land, traction and farm labour could contribute to enhancing market orientation of farm households. …”
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Opportunities for feeding forages to pigs in Uganda por Maass, Brigitte L., Kabirizi, J.M., Pezo, Danilo A., Carter, N., Ouma, Emily A., Zziwa, Emmanuel, Chiuri, Wanjiku L.

“…Women and youth/children provide most of the pigproduction labour, especially for forage collection, feeding and watering; and they are responsible for about 90% of pigs produced in Uganda. …”
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Analysing costs for bio-based materials in agriculture : an application of activity based costing on crop coverage por Johansson, Emma

“…All indirect costs (generated from the cost activities), as well as the direct costs (direct material and labour), were compared to one another as costs per hectare. …”

Analysing costs for bio-based materials in agriculture : an application of activity based costing on crop coverage por Johansson, Emma

“…All indirect costs (generated from the cost activities), as well as the direct costs (direct material and labour), were compared to one another as costs per hectare. …”

“It’s like having three children when it comes to cooking with my husband” por Podieh, Kenza

“…This thesis aims to examine gendered labour division in consumer households of CSA by using the Welsh Vale Farm CSA scheme as an example. …”
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Evidence gap map on impacts of Socio-Technical Innovation Bundles (STIBs) on women’s empowerment and resilience. CGIAR Initiative on Gender Equality (HER+) por Pasha, Atika, Khan, Sarah, Urueña, Viviana, Huonen, Ruthus, Furlani, Irene, Delgerchuluun, Ankhbayar, Puskur, Ranjitha, Mishra, Avni, Mukhopadhyay, Prama, Gartaula, Hom Nath, Nchanji, Eileen, Ketema, Dessalegn Molla, Lutomia, Cosmas Kweyu, Everisto, Mapedza

“…This “fits all” approach is particularly problematic as women constitute about half of the agricultural labour force, and if they face greater difficulties in accessing these bundles, and reaping the benefits derived from them, then these bundles fail to empower half of the target population. …”
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Direct seeded rice in Haryana (India) ABY districts: impact and lessons for scaling por Mutum, Lamnganbi, Mizan, Syed Adil, Bhatpuria, Dhyey, Taneja, Garima, Mitra, Archisman, Gupta, S. K., Sikka, Alok

“…This traditional method, while effective and very popular amongst farmers, is highly labour, water, and energy-intensive, that leads to significant groundwater depletion and higher energy usage in pumping groundwater. …”
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Agricultural cooperatives: Finding strength in numbers por Tschopp, Maurice, Jaquet, Stéphanie, Jacobi, Johanna, Douangphachanh, Maliphone, Bieri, Sabin

“…Smallholder farmers grow a major share of the food consumed around the world and preserve rich, biodiverse landscapes.1 But despite their fundamental importance, many small farmers lead lives of deepening vulnerability – caught between subsistence strategies threatened by ecological degradation and commercial food systems that devalue them as cheap labour. Alternative agricultural models are urgently needed. …”
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Can a cash crop be a women’s crop?: Examining gender norms, relations and equity around lentil commercialization in Ethiopia por Nomunume Baada, Jemima, Najjar, Dina, Seifu, Mahelet Hailemariam

“…The study also found that lentil commercialization is often accompanied by labour commercialization, which has exclusionary effects on farmers of low socioeconomic status and unmarried women. …”
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Which urban agriculture conditions enable or constrain sustainable food production? por Lee, S., Shin, S., Lee, H., Park, M.S.

“…The following conditions are required for both high-income and low/ middle-income countries: Motivation/public awareness; labour/human resources; policy and institutional infrastructure; social capital; and arable land and resources for farming. …”
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Delving deeper into the agricultural transformation and youth employment nexus: The Nigerian case por Adesugba, Margaret Abiodun, Mavrotas, George

“…Recent estimates from the International Labour Organisation (ILO) (2013a) suggest that high and rising unemployment rates among youth remain a key challenge to global development, especially in the developing world. …”
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A cohort analysis of wages in Indonesia por Skoufias, Emmanuel, Suryahadi, A.

“…The growing wage sector has been absorbing many of the young entrants into the labour market but more male workers than female workers. …”
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Mixed farming systems initiative enhances productivity and resilience in Nepal’s hill agriculture por International Water Management Institute

“…As a result, farmers are now diversifying risks, optimizing labour, and increasing productivity—all while preserving the environment. …”
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(Afterword) Riska: memories of a Dayak girlhood por Colfer, C.J.P.

“…Building on her own ethnographic experience, Colfer highlights important changes that have affected women’s lives, such as increasing wage labour opportunities for men, new technological devices for men, negative stereotypes of dayaks on the part of outsiders, and agricultural extension programs that focus on men. …”
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The economics of home grown forestry por Putz, F.E.

“…For forest owners who are not concerned solely with maximising short-term profits from their forests, the opportunity costs of forest labour are often lower than official minimum wages. …”
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