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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Agricultural Communities"”.
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Early Agricultural Communities in Lejja Southeastern Nigeria: An Archaeobotanical Investigation
… and subsistence practices among early iron using communities in southeastern Nigeria. Lejja is a cluster of villages in Igboland, southeastern Nigeria where iron smelting flourished on an industrial scale from around the late first millennium BC. The huge number of slag blocks on the surface …
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Comparison of opinions of pupils in mining and agricultural communities toward home and social problems
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Human-environment interactions in rural and agricultural communities: identifying opportunities for sustainability efforts using quantitative, qualitative, and GIS methods
… to climate change. This makes the study of agricultural sustainability, and the sustainability of the many rural communities that rely on agriculture, essential for the future of our planet. However, given the complex nature of problems in agricultural and rural sustainability, solutions …
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Autonomous low-cost network of ozone sensors: to study the spatial distribution and exposure in underserved agricultural communities in central California
… poorly understood, particularly in underserved communities. In this study, we developed and deployed a network of 12 autonomous, low-cost, and solar-powered air quality monitoring units (VOZboxes) in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV). Co-located with a reference monitor in Fresno, CA, the …
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A GIS compilation of field data from the Smith's Fork Archaeological Site (23CL223), Clay County, Missouri
… River Valley system, such as Steed-Kisker phase agricultural communities, to time- and cost-effectively characterize deposits buried in these locations.
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Regenerative agriculture and soil carbon storage in the Upper Corn Belt
Land use conversion, agricultural mismanagement, and topsoil erosion have depleted global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in the top two meters of soil by an estimated 133 petagrams (Pg), resulting in a significant SOC debt. Regenerative cropping practices, such as no-till and cover cropping, are …
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Remotely Sensed Estimates of Evapotranspiration in Agricultural Areas of Northwestern Nevada: Drought, Reliance, and Water Transfers
… of northwestern Nevada is punctuated by agricultural communities that rely on water primarily supplied by the diversion of surface waters and secondarily by groundwater resources. Annual precipitation in the form of winter snowfall largely determines the amount of surface water that is …
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An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis
… Northern Cape, South Africa were inhabited by communities of hunter-gatherers and herders whose life ways are little understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large stone-built stock pens attest to the presence of substantial herds of livestock, very likely for …
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From Rural Ground to Rural Grocery: Designing a local food value chain
… effects ranging from economic hardship of agricultural communities, inequitable access to nutritional foods, asymmetrical distribution of subsidies, and harsh environmental strains. Further contributing to a problematic system is the growing division between urban and rural settings, with …
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Pushing Marginalization: British Colonial Policy, Somali Identity, and the Gosha 'Other' in Jubaland Province, 1895 to 1925
… groups, these refugees established agricultural communities and were forced to construct new identities. Initially these riverine peoples could easily access clan structures and political institutions of surrounding Somali sub-clans, which in pre-colonial Jubaland were relatively …
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Reinterpreting The Moral Economy – Building on the Economic Possibilities of Selflessness
… economy has originally been used to describe agricultural communities with shared values and practices of economic justice. Its reinterpreted form, which this dissertation has arrived at, reflects a social system realising the economic potential of selflessness, which economies above …
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Irrigators' Vulnerability to Drought in the Flathead River Basin, Montana
… been used to buffer the effects of drought in agricultural communities. However, drought events can still lead to drought damage for irrigators by reducing irrigation water supplies, increasing crop water demand, and creating habitats for invasive pests and weeds. Further, drought will be …
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Irrigators' Vulnerability to Drought in the Flathead River Basin, Montana
… been used to buffer the effects of drought in agricultural communities. However, drought events can still lead to drought damage for irrigators by reducing irrigation water supplies, increasing crop water demand, and creating habitats for invasive pests and weeds. Further, drought will be …
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Impacts of the Poultry Industry In Mississippi
… over the culture and landscape of rural communities in Mississippi and throughout the Southeast United States. It is my hope that by researching the relationship between the poultry industry and the Piney Woods agricultural communities, we can better understand how the large-scale …
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Exploring the Harmful Health Effects of Chlorpyrifos on Children: An Argument for Policy Reform
… policy as well as use and harmful effects in agricultural communities. Market research was conducted on chlorpyrifos use and residues on apples, from which a fact sheet was created advocating for organically grown produce. The EPA’s list of alternatives was analyzed for efficacy, price and …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… visions align with the experiences of the rural agricultural communities where restoration is taking place? How might restoration initiatives driven by state and federal policy and by environmental interests meaningfully involve and include the people who live alongside proposed projects? I …
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On This Piece of Ground: Landowner Perceptions of Restoration in the Deer Lodge Valley
… visions align with the experiences of the rural agricultural communities where restoration is taking place? How might restoration initiatives driven by state and federal policy and by environmental interests meaningfully involve and include the people who live alongside proposed projects? I …
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Nitrogen modeling of potato fields in the Bolivian Andes using GLEAMS
An increase in population in rural agricultural communities and higher demand for food throughout Bolivia create the need for increased agricultural production. The objective of this study was to assess the suitability of the GLEAMS model as a tool for evaluating fertilization and cropping system …
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Application of Fourier-transformed-infrared spectroscopy to quantitate amorphous silica in personal air samples in sugarcane cutters
… level in Latin America. Specifically, in agricultural communities of sugarcane cutters, the burden of the disease is unusually high. Several hypotheses exist as to the cause of the disease, focusing on various risk factors, including dehydration, nutrition, and thermal stress. Another …
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