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Livestock or crop? Which deserves more investment to reduce greywater footprint emissions and improve water use efficiency?
There are two distinct directions of agricultural development when considering only crops and livestock. They are integrated crops and livestock...
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Applying livestock thresholds to examine poverty in Karamoja
In pastoralist and agro-pastoralist areas, wealth and poverty are closely aligned to levels of livestock ownership and social inclusion. Whereas cash...
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The impact of environmental regulation and economic expectations on crop-livestock integration among hog farmers: a field study from China
Decoupling of crop-livestock systems increases the risks of pollution, waste of nutrient resources, and biodiversity loss. Crop-livestock integration...
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New sustainable utilization approach of livestock manure: Conversion to dual-reaction-center Fenton-like catalyst for water purification
Rural pollution is largely caused by the accumulation of waste biomass, such as livestock manure and crop straw, which is extremely difficult to...
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Management and Treatment of Livestock Wastes
Livestock waste management has recently become a topic of interest. Due to the increasing desire in transforming waste products into profit, it is...
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Livestock trade and devolution in the Somali-Kenya transboundary corridor
After the collapse of the central Somali state in 1991, Somali livestock trade has increasingly been re-oriented towards terminal markets in central...
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Analysing the impact of idiosyncratic and covariate shocks on households’ food and non-food consumption: empirical evidence from Benazir Income Support Program
In many develo** countries, poor households face multiple shocks that disrupt their consumption patterns and lead to an increased welfare loss....
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Cash transfers and residential demand for electricity: insights from BISP, Pakistan
We examine the causal impacts of the cash transfer program, namely the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), on residential demand for electricity...
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Decoupling livestock and crop production at the household level in China
Animal manure used to be the major source of additional nutrients and crucial for maintaining soil fertility and crop yield in traditional farming...
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An increased dependence on agricultural policies led European grazing agroecosystems to an unsustainability trap
As all production processes, the agrifood system is driven by energy and materials. The origin and relative contribution of these resources to the...
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Anthropogenic Vector Ecology and Management to Combat Disease Spread in Aquaculture
Anthropogenic vectors (transfer mechanisms) can facilitate the introduction and spread of aquatic disease in marine farming regions. Preventing or...
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Friendship, kinship and social risk management strategies among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda
This paper describes risk-pooling friendships and other social networks among pastoralists in Karamoja, Uganda. Social networks are of critical...
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Selecting Appropriate Climate Adaptation Interventions: The Case of Cash Transfers for Rural Smallholders
The effects of global climate change are forcing actors at all levels to consider possible adaptation measures. However, climate adaptation...
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Selecting Appropriate Climate Adaptation Interventions: The Case of Cash Transfers for Rural Smallholders
The effects of global climate change are forcing actors at all levels to consider possible adaptation measures. However, climate adaptation...
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Global trend of methane abatement inventions and widening mismatch with methane emissions
Substantially reducing methane emissions is the fastest way to repress near-term warming and is an essential prerequisite for reaching the 1.5 °C...
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Impact of Future Climate Change on Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture: Challenges and Policy
Agriculture around the world is vulnerable to climate change. Therefore, adaptation measures are required to sustain agricultural productivity,...
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Unleashing the association between technical efficiency of agro- processing industry and economic growth: A pathway towards development sustainability
Under the influence of market rules, state intervention in development process is obviously necessary, especially in the context of emerging...
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Assessment of livelihood development and diversity as a strategy to cope with livelihood vulnerability in Leh, India: a PCA-based approach
Due to its peripheral location and formidable geography, the livelihood of people in Leh mostly depends on locally accessible resources, particularly...
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The Sustainability Challenge of Dairy Livestock Systems
In this chapter, the authors describe the current situation of the global dairy livestock industry under the influence and challenge of the...