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Actor-network theory has undoubtedly been useful in the study of geographies of food
The corporate food regime uses this “commodity fetishism” to hide the socio-natural relations of productions that might dissuade consumers and inhibit endless capital accumulation . Work in economic geography on global commodity chains and circuits has sought to “lift the veil” on the secret lives of commodities in the apparel and agri-food industries . This work seeks…
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The Nobelists boldly used the approach to rethink how to fight global poverty
This result could indicate that having other managed systems nearby results in fewer source populations of pests in the immediate surrounding, whereas having widespread cropland in the landscape leads to a concentration of pests [i.e., resource concentration hypothesis ] or a lack of natural enemies [enemies hypothesis ] within the broader agricultural region. If so,…
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Crop models need to accurately represent the relevant impacts of weather and climate extremes
Development of next-generation crop models can be divided into several categories: significant improvements in simulation of important crop processes and responses to stress; extension from simplified crop models to cropping systems models that address complexity in space, time and the number of processes considered; and scaling up from field-based models to landscape, national, continental, and…
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The expression of both transgenes was quantified by using a specific assay
No differences in the vegetative growth were observed for any of the six and nine lines selected carrying VviINO.1 and VviINO.2, respectively , even though some variability was observed in the size of silique in mature plants . Careful observation of ovule phenotypes both by stereo and optical microscope showed that both VviINO.1 and VviINO.2…