1903 papers
This ethnographic study of 30 rural households in Kabezi, Burundi, demonstrates that "agroecological behavioral resilience"—the capacity to adapt farming practices, social networks, and food trade-offs to climatic and economic shocks—is a socially constructed phenomenon that underscores the need for public policies integrating local knowledge to support food security and sustainable development.
This review highlights the nutritional richness, bioactive properties, and technological potential of velvet tamarind (Dialium guineense) as an emerging functional food ingredient for various applications, while emphasizing the need for further research into its bioavailability, standardization, and industrial scalability.
This study demonstrates that microwave, infrared, and ultrasound treatments serve as effective, residue-free alternatives to chemical fumigants for controlling the red flour beetle across various stored grains, with their efficacy significantly dependent on treatment parameters and the specific physicochemical properties of each grain type.
This study demonstrates that the myxospermous (mucilage-producing) light-brown seeds of shepherd's purse (*Capsella bursa-pastoris*) exhibit superior hydration and germination traits compared to non-myxospermous dark-brown seeds, and that a seedbank of these mucilaginous seeds significantly improves water-use efficiency for neighboring barley seedlings in sandy soils by modifying microsite hydrology.
This study utilized the STICS model to demonstrate that the influence of ENSO phases on soybean productivity in Brazil's Savanna region varies significantly by location, with La Niña benefiting the northwest, El Niño and neutral conditions hindering the central region, and minimal ENSO impact observed in the southeast, thereby validating the model as an effective tool for optimizing sowing dates and harvest forecasting.
This study evaluates the efficacy of tympanic membrane temperature and thermal imaging as non-invasive indicators of stress and brain lateralization in cattle, finding that while both methods successfully detect psychological stress through symmetric temperature increases, they fail to identify lateral brain activity and are limited by environmental factors, underscoring the need for species-specific monitoring approaches.
This study demonstrates that low-cost biofunctionalization of swine manure-derived activated charcoal and agro-waste ashes using aged fermented palm sap effectively modifies their physicochemical properties and surface chemistry, creating functionally differentiated materials with potential applications in nutrient recycling, soil amendment, and sustainable agriculture.
This study utilized an integrated Principal Component Analysis-Minimum Data Set entropy-weighting approach to assess and map soil quality across Northern Vietnam's Mountainous/Midland and Red River Delta regions, revealing significantly higher quality and lower variability in the Delta while identifying a seven-indicator set (including heavy metals and organic carbon) as critical for regional soil management.
This study demonstrates that while hydroponic floating systems inherently offer greater salinity tolerance for Formosa papaya than sand-based systems, the application of melatonin at concentrations of 50 µM or higher effectively mitigates the negative growth effects of salt stress in both hydroponic setups.
This study demonstrates that rhizobacterial strains isolated from perennial wheat can suppress phytopathogenic fungi, particularly *Aspergillus flavus*, through the release of volatile organic compounds, with dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl trisulfide identified as the key inhibitory agents.