One such simplification will be to focus on a single crop for any given region

The relationships between crop yields, weather and climate have been the focus of a great deal of attention in the Earth system science literature.This is due to concerns about securing food supplies for our growing populations and the potential challenges that climate change poses.Most studies have been concerned with establishing the current relationships between climate …

Gillin provides interesting insight into the importance of water for the people of Moche

In Gillin’s ethnographic account of the town of Moche, he observed that many dishes were cooked or boiled over an open flame, either in ceramic or metal containers placed on an adobe brick stove or on rock supports placed on the ground. Gillin lists a variety of one pot meals, including soups, stews, or gruels, which often …

It is likely that some of these rodents survive baiting by consuming a sub-lethal dose

The higher incidence in the western states may suggest that workers in this region are at higher risk of drift exposure; however, it may also have resulted from better case identification in California and Washington states through their higher staffed surveillance programs, extensive use of workers’ compensation reports in these states, and use of active surveillance …

Individuals working on a resources or database should be named on the website

Distributed and independent genome projects produce assemblies and annotations that can be beneficial to research on related species, if researchers can discover them. However, even a multi-species database that manages gene families may not contain all gene data of interest to the communities it serves. Services that assign new data, supplied by researchers or by …

The 20th century brought significant changes to the economics of global agriculture

Beginning in the 1970s, economic researchers began to study the potential impacts of bans on the use of sub-therapeutic antibiotics on the pork, poultry, and beef sectors and on U.S. consumers, but there has been little study of how heterogeneity impacts antibiotic use, and in turn, how it impacts returns to using antibiotics in U.S. …

We use digital agriculture for its semantic breadth and increasing currency

The ‘urbanization of hinterland’ requires the ability to observe, interpret, and manage processes of extended urbanization from zones of concentration. We then “bring information back in” by introducing a more materialist analysis of the role of information in global capitalist space, which centers on computation capital: the infrastructure necessary to transport and make legible enormous amounts …

The proportion of retail commodities sold at market prices has kept rising

The Great Recession reduced weekly hours by 1.3 hours in the hotel sector but not in the other sectors. Thus, for most employed workers in these three sectors, weekly hours remained constant during recessions. This result contrasts with that in the agricultural sector where weekly hours rose substantially during recessions.China’s economic liberalization and structural change …

There is also a literature that challenges the dominant role of agricultural growth for poverty reduction

From the point of view of our exercise, this greater variance produces a ‘bias’ in the resulting estimates of the connection between agricultural income and welfare, since we are interested not in the short-run effect of things like weather shocks on expenditures but on the longer-run effects of things like improvements in agricultural productivity. We are …

The process of carbon sequestration can be accelerated by coconut plantation and inter crop management

Based on a field study, Kumar et al.reported that the presence or absence of over-canopy had little effect on the rhizome yield of galangal , a medicinal plant, implying its shade tolerance.Being a shade-tolerant crop, galangal yield remained steady across a wide range of light availability conditions, from full light to a photosynthetic photon flux density as low …

Most stakeholders interviewed in this study share a demand for applying AI to agriculture

Agricultural farms are extremely pressed to get a rewarding return on their investments which leads to, at times of the year with high workload, farmers not getting much sleep at all.This is confirmed by a farmer who says that since he works so much, some hours are nearly unpaid.Implementing AI in agriculture could potentially mitigate …