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Nutrition av sällskapspapegojor by Johnsson, Frida

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Eventos climáticos extremos de precipitación y sus efectos en la migración interna en Guatemala by Lozano Sivisaca, Deicy C.

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Soil properties evaluation in horticultural farms of Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, Argentina by Paladino, Ileana Ruth, Sokolowski, Ana Clara, Irigoin, Julieta, Rodríguez, Hernán A., Gagey, María Cristina, Barrios, Mónica Beatriz, De Grazia, Javier, Debelis, Silvina, Wolski José Enrique, Buján, Alfonso

“…Only few of the horticultural farmers receive professional agronomic advice. For this reason, an excess of supplies are being used, irrigation water quality is unknown and soils are not analyzed. …”
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Examining the relationship between farm size and productive efficiency: a Bayesian directional distance function approach by Khataza, R.R., Hailu, A., Doole, G.J., Kragt, M.E., Alene, A.

“…The results highlight the need for policies that could incentivize farmers to adopt productivity‐enhancing technologies and, where possible, to allocate excess land to lease markets.…”
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Global water resources affected by human interventions and climate change by Haddeland, Ingjerd, Heinke, Jens, Biemans, Hester, Eisner, Stephanie, Flörke, Martina, Hanasaki, Naota, Konzmann, Markus, Ludwig, Fulco, Masaki, Yoshimitsu, Schewe, Jacob, Stacke, Tobias, Tessler, Zachary D., Wada, Yoshihide, Wisser, Dominik

“…In parts of Asia and the United States, the effects of human interventions exceed the impacts expected for moderate levels of global warming. …”
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Cultivating Resilience: Climate-Smart Grass pea as a Multifunctional Feed, Forage, and Fodder Crop in Dry Areas through Integrated Genomic Approaches by Hassan, Sawsan, Louhaichi, Mounir, Agrawal, Shiv Kumar

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Effect of different growth conditions on physiological characteristics in two genotypes of Urochloa humidicola by Mayorga, Mildred, Cardoso Arango, Juan Andrés

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International collaboration in times of pandemics: An urgent need for reforming our global financial system by Arsel, Murat, Demena, Binyam Afewerk, Floridi, Andrea, Gómez, Georgina M., Haile, Genet, Kalfagianni, Agni, Farhad, Mukhtarov, Murshed, Syed Mansoob, Papyrakis, Elissaios, Pellegrini, Lorenzo, Rieger, Matthias, Shigute, Zemzem, Uzín P., G. J. Andrés, van der Hoeven, Rolph, Vos, Rob, Wagner, Natascha

“…This requires better international tax coordination with a higher global minimum corporate tax, comprehensive coverage of sectors and firms, inclusion of all current tax havens and more generous redistribution of excess profits to developing nations based on user location. …”
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Demand heterogeneity for index-based insurance: The case for flexible products by Ceballos, Francisco, Robles, Miguel

“…We analyze a set of flexible insurance products against excess rainfall and exploit the substantial variation in insurance portfolios demanded by farmers. …”
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Synopsis: Economy-wide impacts of the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) by Filipski, Mateusz J., Taylor, J. Edward, Abegaz, Getachew Ahmed, Ferede, Tadele, Taffesse, Alemayehu Seyoum, Diao, Xinshen

“…The findings from this study reveal that, on an economy-wide ba-sis, the benefits of PSNP significantly exceed the cost of PSNP transfers. New income created by PSNP benefits households that do not receive cash transfers; these non-beneficiaries benefit as markets transmit PSNP impacts to them through local and national markets. …”
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Efficacy and other nutrition evidence for Vitamin A crops by De Moura, Fabiana F.

“…Because the bioconversion of provitamin A carotenoids to vitamin A is homeostatically regulated, excess toxic accumulation of retinol is prevented. …”
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Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest by Fuglie, Keith O., Nin-Pratt, Alejandro

“…By getting more output from existing resources, global agriculture has grown, proving wrong past concerns that the world’s population would exceed its food supply. In fact, at the global level, the long-run trend since at least 1900 has been one of increasing food abundance: in inflation-adjusted dollars, food prices fell by an average of 1 percent per year over the course of the 20th century (Figure 1). …”
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Irrigation financing and cost recovery policy in India: Case studies from Bihar and Haryana by Bhatia, Ramesh

“…Among the widespread problems encouraged by subsidies are chronic excess demand for water and water projects, poor operation and maintenance of completed systems, and inattention to water conservation opportunities. n a multicountry study of financing and cost recovery mechanisms in Asia, Small and others (1986) conclude that it is probably not feasible to collect irrigation service fees based on the volune of water used because of two factors: the inability of most agencies to measure water consumption accurately at the turnout ard the administrative costs of collecting fees from the large nurrber of individual farmers usually found in the irrigation system:: of developing countries. …”
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Determination of administered prices of foodgrains in India by Sarma, J. S.

“…Agricultural price policies and allied instruments evolved in India in the context of shortages and excess demand during World War II (India 1975). Procurement and distribution of major foodgrains were begun and statutory maximum prices were set, though not strictly enforced. …”
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Automatic Feedback Control to Maintain Constant Soil Moisture Tension in the Study of Drought Tolerance in Rice by Alvarez, E.I., De Datta, S.K.

“…Water can flow freely from the tank to the pots through the distribution system whenever the soil moisture tension exceeds that desired. Response to the sensors' demand for water is rapid.We have successfully used this setup to compare relative drought tolerance of rice (Oryza sativa L.) varieties and breeding lines. …”
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Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Kenya: Estimates of Food Loss and Waste, associated GHG emissions, nutritional losses, land use and water footprints by Axmann, H., Guo, X., Broeze, J., Harbers, C., Viquez-Zamora, M., Soethoudt, J.M.

“…Under this definition, FLW does not include food that is consumed in excess of nutritional requirements nor food that incurs a decrease of market value due to over-supply or other market forces, and not due to reduced quality.…”
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Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Colombia: Estimates of Food Loss and Waste, associated GHG emissions, nutritional losses, land use and water footprints by Axmann, H., Guo, X., Broeze, J., Harbers, C., Viquez-Zamora, M., Soethoudt, J.M.

“…Under this definition, FLW does not include food that is consumed in excess of nutritional requirements nor food that incurs a decrease of market value due to over-supply or other market forces, and not due to reduced quality.…”
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Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile China: Estimates of Food Loss and Waste, associated GHG emissions, nutritional losses, land use and water footprints by Axmann, H., Guo, X., Broeze, J., Harbers, C., Viquez-Zamora, M., Soethoudt, J.M.

“…Under this definition, FLW does not include food that is consumed in excess of nutritional requirements nor food that incurs a decrease of market value due to over-supply or other market forces, and not due to reduced quality.…”
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Mitigate+: Food Loss and Waste country profile Vietnam: Estimates of Food Loss and Waste, associated GHG emissions, nutritional losses, land use and water footprints by Axmann, H.B., Guo, X., Broeze, J., Harbers, C., Viquez-Zamora, M., Soethoudt, J.M.

“…Under this definition, FLW does not include food that is consumed in excess of nutritional requirements nor food that incurs a decrease of market value due to over-supply or other market forces, and not due to reduced quality.…”
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The IITA farming systems program by Okigbo, B.

“…The humid tropics is defined as the broad belt girdling the earth in the lower latitutes on both sides of the equator where precipitation exceeds evaporation for more than half the year and where normally the tropical rain forest constitutes the climax vegetation.…”
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