455 papers
This exploratory study examines how UK sheep farmers navigate diverse knowledge sources—from family traditions and peer networks to veterinary advice and international expertise—by prioritizing trust, practical relevance, and strong relationships to make informed animal welfare decisions.
This mixed-methods study in rural North Cotabato, Philippines, reveals that while women's agricultural decision-making agency is associated with reduced household food insecurity, its effectiveness is fundamentally limited by structural constraints such as unequal resource access, heavy domestic labor burdens, and entrenched gender power dynamics.
This district-level analysis of Maharashtra reveals a severe and worsening soil nutrient stress crisis driven by agro-climatic confounding and urea-dominated practices, finding no corrective impact from current Soil Health Card diagnostics and highlighting the urgent need for pulse promotion and subsidy restructuring.
This study characterizes the phenological progression of thirteen guava genotypes in West Bengal using the BBCH scale, revealing significant varietal differences in developmental timing and Growing Degree Day requirements to optimize crop management practices.
This qualitative study of 90 women in rural Northern Ghana reveals that while participants express a strong desire for better nutrition, their dietary quality is primarily hindered by economic constraints, seasonal food scarcity, and cultural food-sharing practices, necessitating community-based interventions such as financial support, cooperative farming, and nutrition education.
This study demonstrates that integrating Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Program with Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture significantly improves maternal and child nutritional outcomes, particularly by reducing acute wasting and chronic stunting, while highlighting the critical roles of socioeconomic factors and behavioral determinants.
This study demonstrates that while germination and extrusion processing significantly alter the ruminal degradation kinetics and protein subunit profiles of soybeans, extrusion specifically reduces crude protein degradability by preserving key subunits of β-conglycinin and glycinin that are otherwise broken down in raw soybeans.
Although *Picralima nitida* leaves offer a viable dry-season protein source for ruminants in northern Nigeria, their extremely low mineral content and high levels of anti-nutritional factors necessitate calcium supplementation and processing before safe utilization as feed.
This paper appraises 343 research articles to reveal that while machine learning is increasingly vital for global rice food security, its application is unevenly distributed, with disease management, yield forecasting, and crop monitoring receiving significantly more attention than weed, irrigation, and fertilizer management.
This study demonstrates that feeding Black Bengal goats a ration containing 60% Berseem fodder significantly improves their weight gain, feed conversion ratio, and milk yield compared to diets based on road-side grass or Napier grass, establishing Berseem as an optimal winter roughage source for this breed in the Habiganj district.