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Mapping direct seeded rice in Raichur district of Karnataka, India
Publicado 2015“…Across South Asia, the cost of rice cultivation has increased due to labor shortage. Direct seeding of rice is widely promoted in order to reduce labor demand during crop establishment stage, and to benefit poor farmers. …”
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Farmers nutrient management practices in indigenous cropping systems in southern Cameroon
Publicado 2003“…Application of internal inputs was considered too labor demanding. The use of purchased inputs was limited by high prices. …”
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AI-powered detection and quantification of Post-harvest Physiological Deterioration (PPD) in cassava using YOLO foundation models and K-means clustering
Publicado 2024“…This approach is much faster and more streamlined compared to the labor-intensive and time-consuming manual visual scoring methods. …”
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Genetic divergence of sweet potato genotypes based on morpho-agronomic traits
Publicado 2021“…The low relative importance of leaf size, internode diameter and secondary peel color makes further evaluation of these traits unnecessary, reducing labor costs, cost and execution time.…”
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Empowerment through technology: Gender dimensions of social capital build-up in Maharashtra, India
Publicado 2007“…Strong kinship ties were developed among diverse classes all over the village including landless tribal women, who formed the major labor force for this technology. …”
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Empowerment through technology uptake: gender dimensions in social capital build-up
Publicado 2005“…Strong kinship ties were developed among diverse classes including the landless tribal women, which formed the major labor force for this technology. …”
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The HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa: sectoral impacts and unemployment
Publicado 2001“…Nevertheless, large differences in remuneration trends across labor classes and standard economic theory point to these trends as major contributing factors. …”
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The beef chain in Costa Rica: Identifying critical issues for promoting its modernization, efficiency and competitiveness
Publicado 2008“…The cow-calf operation, with its low productivity, remunerates family labor with wages below the legal minimum. On the assumption that the only cash cost is that of labor, cow-calf farms pay family workers at a wage that is equivalent to 60% of the legal minimum. …”
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Growth, distribution and poverty in Madagascar: learning from a microsimulation model in a general equilibrium framework
Publicado 2000“…The model is primarily focused on labor markets and labor allocation at the household level, but consumption behavior is also modeled. …”
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Natural farming promotion in low-input, remote districts: A feminist political ecological analysis
Publicado 2023“…We found that in this context, the push for natural farming—particularly the focus on producing on-farm bio inputs—was unattractive to women who were either only first enjoying the fruits of less laborious production or who were marginal farmers that principally relied on labor work. Yet we also highlighted uneven impacts of weedicide adoption on women along the lines of class, and pointed to opportunities natural farming policy has to better address structural conditions that make chemical agriculture attractive to resource-poor women farmers. …”
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Ambivalences of collective farming: Feminist political ecologies from the Eastern Gangetic Plains
Publicado 2019“…Our results in Saptari/ Eastern Terai in Nepal, Madhubani/Bihar, and Cooch Behar/West Bengal in India demonstrate how intra-household, group and community relations and emotional attachments to the family and neighbors mediate the redistribution of labor, land, produce and capital. We find that unequal gender relations, intersected by class, age, ethnicity and caste, are reproduced in collective action, land tenure and water management, and argue that a critical feminist perspective can support a more reflective and relational understanding of collective farming processes. …”
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Innovation in African food processing enterprises: Patterns and drivers
Publicado 2022“…It has also become a key strategy to tap into growing opportunities such as the high rates of urbanization, the growing labor force and its level of qualification, a high proportion of young people in the population structure, a growing domestic market, an increasing relative size of the middle class, the decrease in the severity of internal political confrontations and attenuation of intercountry armed conflicts, and the development of digital technologies (Ledeneva et al. 2020). …”
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Development and equity: A gendered inquiry in a swidden landscape
Publicado 2019“…We employ the gender asset agriculture project (GAAP) framework and apply an intersectional lens to highlight power relations underlying gendered differences in land, labor and social capital in this process of transformation. …”
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Gendered analysis of rice product profiles, Côte d’Ivoire
Publicado 2024“…A focus on agronomic, traits reveals benefits associated with productivity-enhancement including ability to participate in better markets and the resulting better prices and incomes, however the difficult access to labor was noted to increase drudgery, especially to women.…”
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Digital framework for georeferenced multiplatform surveillance of banana wilt using human in the loop AI and YOLO foundation models
Publicado 2025“…Traditional methods for disease monitoring and detection are often time-consuming, labor-intensive, and prone to inaccuracies. This study introduces an AI-powered multiplatform georeferenced surveillance system designed to enhance the detection and management of banana wilt diseases. …”
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Gender and aquaculture value chains: A review of key issues and implications for research
Publicado 2018“…It does so by presenting a review of existing evidence on gender issues in aquaculture value chains along five key dimensions: gender division of labor, distribution of benefits, access and control over assets and resources, gender and social norms, power relations and governance. …”
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Transformative engagements with gender relations in agriculture and water governance
Publicado 2019“…The activities stimulated enthusiasm and inspiration to reflect on possible change towards more equal labor division and empathy towards those with weaker bargaining power. …”
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Farmers' preferences for high-input agriculture supported by site-specific extension services: evidence from a choice experiment in Nigeria
Publicado 2019“…We control for attribute non-attendance and account for class as well as scale heterogeneity in preferences using different models, and find robust results. …”
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