Devaux, A. Hareau, G. Ordinola, M. Andrade-Piedra, J.L. Thiele, G.
Once neglected by urban consumers, Andean native potatoes are now essential ingredients for some of the most sophisticated gastronomy of the world. From colored chips to delicacy vegetables and even liquors, new products are making their way into high-income market niches. At the same time, native potatoes continue to fulfill their basic role of pr...
Sapkota, Tek B Jat, Mangi L Rana, Dharamvir S Khatri-Chhetri, Arun Jat, Hanuman S Bijarniya, Deepak Sutaliya, Jhabar M Kumar, Manish Singh, Love K Jat, Raj K
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Reduction of excess nutrient application and balanced fertilizer use are the key mitigation options in agriculture. We evaluated Nutrient Expert (NE) tool-based site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) in rice and wheat crops by establishing 1594 side-by-side comparison trials with farmers’ fertilization practices (FFP) across the Indo-Gangetic Pla...
center, international potato
This video explains why gender matters in agriculture through the example of potato growers in Georgia. The targeted audience are women and men farmers across the world. Gender equity in agricultural development projects cannot be achieved without women and men farmers’ awareness of their own gender norms and their willingness to change. This video...
center, international potato
This video explains why gender matters in agriculture. The targeted audience are women and men farmers across the world. Gender equity in agricultural development projects cannot be achieved without women and men farmers’ awareness of their own gender norms and their willingness to change. This video will facilitate farmers’ involvement in discussi...
Bencová, Tatiana Boháčiková, Andrea
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: Risk is an important aspect of the agriculture business. The uncertainties inherent in the changes in input and output prices, climate and biological variables, agricultural policies and government decisions, global markets and the volatility, sales, world trends in the consumption, environmental legislation and other factors t...
Holúbek, Ivan Tóth, Marián Rábek, Tomáš Jakabovičová, Johana
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: Globalization is a powerful engine of structural changes in national, regional and global economies. Except for positive economic effects, globalization also has negative effects. One of them is the deterioration of the global environmental situation and the ongoing global climate change. Purpose of the article: The paper focus...
Boháčiková, Andrea Bencová, Tatiana Rábek, Tomáš
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SHS Web of Conferences
Research background: Risk in agriculture is a difficult concept to recognize, because farmers are exposed to different types of risks that influence their agricultural activity. The stability of farmer´s income is threatened by various factor interconnected to each other, such as market risks (price volatility, market shocks), financial risks (indeb...
Bailey, Adrian R. Fu, Jia Dong, Hao Martins, Tomas Sparano
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International Food and Agribusiness Management Review
Co-operatives play a vital role in supplying various goods and services in the UK, as well as in other parts of the world. In the past twenty years co-operatives have become important players in modern organic food supply chains, providing small-scale farmers with access to knowledge and markets, alongside opportunities to scale up their production...
Mukumov, Abdugani Xujakeldiev, Komil Xamidov, Fayzullo Narbaev, Sharafatdin Abdivaitov, Khudoyberdi
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E3S Web of Conferences
The features of the organization of production units agroclusters, which are one of the components of land management projects which aimed at organizing the rational and efficient use of available land resources are described in this article. The term “cluster” is a French word that means “bundle”, “collection” in Uzbek. It can be taken as “the geo...
Nguenha, Nicole Cunguara, Benedito Bialous, Stella Drope, Jeffrey Lencucha, Raphael
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Background: Tobacco growing has been considered a mainstay of Mozambique’s economy, but there is a dearth of analysis of the tobacco policy landscape in the country. Methods: Review of government and non-government documents and academic papers addressing Mozambique’s tobacco-growing history, the changes in the political economy of tobacco, and hea...