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These research results were passed on to extension agents before they would get to farmers
As the first project coordinator recounted, since the project’s preparatory missions the focus was on the possibilities for technical cooperation with the research institutes, rather than finding solutions to the cotton sector at large. However, even if the local research institutes were not formally submitted to the cotton companies, and neither were the latter the…
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Coverage can be provided for by using the residue of the crops that rotate with cotton
The soil in some of the peasant cotton fields I visited in Mali and Burkina Faso was so hard and light-colored that one would be amazed at how such a fragile a plant could ever have sprouted and grown in there. In genetic terms, these cotton plants are not fundamentally different; they came from either the…
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The second focus in the capacity-building demonstrations concerned public policies for agriculture
In other words, the sheer existence and full-fledged operation of a public research institute was portrayed not as something to be taken for granted, but as the outcome of an active, continuous work of persuasion and building the right alliances with political groups and constituencies, both domestically and abroad. Those in African institutes did perform…
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This is less the case of front liners who had a longer-term engagement in cooperation activities
As the video comes to a close and one hears increasingly loud background music playing the Brazilian national anthem in samba rhythm, the narrator concludes during a shot of Embrapa employees wearing white coats with hands on their hearts: “And it is for this country, a star and master player in tropical agriculture, that we…
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G estimates comparisons resulted in a slightly closer agreement across vineyards and within years
The five soil heat flux measurements collected over the vineyard interrow were corrected to represent a surface approximation by accounting for the heat storage in the overlying soil layer. Once G observations were corrected to the surface level, the individual half-hourly measurements of the soil heat flux were averaged to produce a representative G flux for each vineyard .ETa…
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Official technical cooperation in agriculture remains fundamentally driven by Itamaraty
In the Brazilian public sphere, there hasn’t been much debate on its growing status as a provider of cooperation – even if, as one of my interlocutors in diplomacy claimed, there is always a press that will “pick on whatever the government does”. Indeed, in the national media, Congressional debates and in informal conversations with…
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The data set could be supplemented with at least three more pieces of information
The survey data set provides data over a five-year period from 1987 to 1991, and State Controller financial data is available over this same time period. A pooled-time series analysis would likely provide a richer view of how districts manage their finances over a longer period, particularly given the apparent large fluctuations in net income and…
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Agriculture undoubtedly contributes to biosphere change in the Anthropocene era
Under agroecological management coffee and cacao can be designed to mimick the surrounding natural landscape to promote wildlife friendly practices that enhance synergetic interactions between organisms and provide sustainable food products that increase food sovereignty for local communities . In the case of shade-grown coffee this management is reflected in habitat provision for wildlife, increased…
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The scores in these domains were higher as the distance categories increased
Because of these findings and our previously reported positive associations between AChE activity and neurobehavioral performance in boys and transient alterations in neurobehavioral performance in relation to a peak pesticide spray season , we hypothesized that children living near greenhouse floricultural production sites, assessed during the same time period with respect to harvest season, had worse…
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This dilemma becomes more or less sharp depending on the theoretical perspective
My focus is therefore not on the terms but on the hyphen in South South cooperation. There is, as especially Chapter 1 will suggest, a whole politics behind this hyphen. Mine would have to be therefore a take on relationality that did not fail to attend to the play of power relations, more specifically those of…