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East compared to the West. Yet, these patterns were not uniform and diverging patterns of intensification in areas highly … to a spatial reorganization of land use (i.e., co-occurring area decline and intensification or co-occurring area …
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this, we develop literature that examines ICT intensification, i.e., the increased use of technology, and mobile … mediums other than the dominant theme of e-mail. Regarding the pure intensification aspect, e-mail use is associated with a … intensification and rearrangement lead to similar results regarding commitment, highlighting a more dominant role of rearrangement in …
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CONTEXT: Feeding strategy is a major dimension of intensification and largely determines the environmental and economic … livelihoods. Literature suggests that a key driver of intensification is increasing population density – associated with decreased … rangeland environments implying important trade-offs to intensification which merit further study. …
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Thailand has experienced steady economic growth and structural changes in the economy in the last four decades that enabled her to gain a position among the newly industrialized nations. The structural changes associated with economic growth reflect the changing role of agriculture in the...
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facilitates intensification among others through intercropping of maize with legumes such as beans and pigeon peas; c) the welfare …
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Against the global trend towards sedentary, specialised and feed-intensive cattle farming, we explore current patterns of production in Kazakhstan's traditionally nomadic livestock sector. Experts see considerable potential for output expansion, and the government hopes to promote the sector as...
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Water withdrawals for irrigated crop production constitute the largest source of freshwater consumption on Earth. Monitoring the dynamics of irrigated crop cultivation is crucial for tracking crop water consumption, particularly in water-scarce areas. We analyzed changes in water-dependent crop...
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investigate changes in crop rotations as one intensification metric for half of the croplands in Germany with annual field … important metric of land-use intensity and can reveal the patterns of land-use intensification. …
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farmers are forced to increase their output. Nevertheless, the level of intensification is still lower than what is considered … farmers’ intensification choices and their interdependent determinants. We propose a novel modeling approach for identifying … determinants of intensification and their interrelationships by combining a Bayesian belief network (BBN), experimental design, and …
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affects agricultural prices and intensification of farming. We then test these predictions using large-scale survey data from … an array of econometric models. We find that agricultural price behavior and intensification is determined by proximity … on uptake of modern inputs and yields on farms, the effects on prices and intensification measures are lower for farmers …
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