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The significance of political economies as a factor influencing food choice cannot be underestimated
By not solely relying on typological distinctions witnessed in the present, largely an effect of colonial efforts conducted over the last 500 years , we can more fruitfully reimagine ancient culture contact scenarios, which often involved the exchange of foodstuffs, as well as the technologies needed to process and serve them. A final goal of this…
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Consider the case where habitat for an endangered species the ES to be provided
The ability to store commodities also means that they can be sold and stored strategically according to current and expected market conditions. Among crops that are produced as mono-cultures, breeding of crops for a few key traits has also contributed to reduced genetic diversity and increased specialization . Increased opportunity costs of time for farmers…
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With e-extension organizations can contact farmers through their mobile devices
Digital agriculture technologies, then, increase the advantage of large commercial farms and perpetuate certain data-legible decisions. In the Global South, digital agriculture more often takes the form of e-extension. Conventionally, agricultural extension consists of field workers, on behalf of the state or development organizations, visiting farmers to educate them on better practices.This digitalization enables new actors,…
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The effort to create and implement this new regulatory framework is widespread
The regulations also seek to simplify administrative processes and increasing the transparency of regulations and policies.For example, during the last stage of WTO negotiation, each ministry formed its leading group or committee to work on all of the laws and regulations under its jurisdiction. These committees typically were comprised of decision makers and experts who…
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Changes in the legal status of farm workers also affected the U.S. farm labor force
Several new U.S. laws and additional funding for border enforcement made crossing more difficult: the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996, the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the USA Patriot Act of 2002, the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002, the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of…
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Both the physical environment and infrastructure also affect adoption
While it is beyond the scope of this article to explain the relative performance of China’s breeding programs, most likely, it is a combination of historic investment priorities, fortunate breakthroughs and availability of international germplasm. China’s breeding efforts also have enhanced the quality of its seed stock. Using experiment station yields of each major variety during…
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Data is further organized by the SKOS and brought into the semantic web by the OWL
There are no options to add semantics to Shape files linking it in an ontology-based data network to represent and use it in an interoperable way for multiple sinks over a long period of time, which is necessary if resilience is considered.Also, the composition of several “part-files” complicates processing .Further important limitations of Shape files are listed in reflectsions…
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The harvesting cost calculated as a lump sum is lower in the SA season
The wide application of the super-efficiency method included sensitivity testing, identification of outliers, and a method for overcoming the bounded range problem in the second stage of linear regression.Hence, instead of the Tobit regression, we can use standard ordinary least squares regression methods in the next stage.In paddy production, the reduction strategy of inputs will not always…
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Pleiotropic effects are often inferred where strong genetic correlations exist between traits
The genetic architecture of traits and trait responses is recognized as a key regulator of intraspecific variation in plant responses to environmental change . Patterns of G × E are sometimes attributed to architectural aspects such as pleiotropy, differential sensitivity and non-additive effects. Pleiotropy occurs when a single gene affects two apparently unrelated phenotypic traits. Differential…
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One-fourth of an acre of farmland is harvested on average
We collected UCCE expenditure budget data by county offices for the years 1992 through 2012. Some counties in California have a shared budget allocation with another county; such counties include Humboldt and Del Norte, Inyo and Mono, Placer and Nevada, Plumas and Sierra, Sutter and Yuba, Shasta and Trinity, and San Mateo and San Francisco.…