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Intellectual property rights and plants made by new genomic techniques: Access to technology and gene-edited traits in plant breeding 知识产权与新基因组技术培育的植物：植物育种中的技术获取和基因编辑性状

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241277219

Joanna M Lukasiewicz, Clemens CM van de Wiel, Lambertus AP Lotz, Marinus JM Smulders

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Motivation and opportunity may drive Tunisian farmers to reduce chemical pesticides in horticulture 动机和机会可能促使突尼斯农民减少园艺中的化学农药

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-08-28 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241276209

Maria Raimondo, Daniela Spina, Gaetano Chinnici, Giuseppe Di Vita, Mario D’Amico, Francesco Caracciolo

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Deciphering the crux of women's empowerment in agricultural value chains – A scoping review 解读农业价值链中妇女赋权的关键--范围界定审查

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-08-19 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241267787

C Prithika, M Anjugam, B Sivasankari

{"title":"Deciphering the crux of women's empowerment in agricultural value chains – A scoping review","authors":"C Prithika, M Anjugam, B Sivasankari","doi":"10.1177/00307270241267787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241267787","url":null,"abstract":"This review paper highlights the essential requirement of women in agricultural practices and emphasizes gender equality and their contribution to household productivity and food security. The paper discusses the various stages of the value chain and identifies entry points for interventions aimed at enhancing women's participation and benefits and also evaluates the efforts meant to empower women within the agriculture sector, especially to determine women's involvement in the Agricultural Value Chain (AVC). Evaluation of women's empowerment using diverse approaches such as the REBT Framework, and WEAI in various countries was analyzed by using the PRISMA framework and concluded with the emerging new methodology of PRO-WEAI developed by IFPRI to focus on the empowerment of women relevant to the value chain. WEAI-type tools allow for direct comparison between men and women in the same households. This approach offers additional advantages, such as having an explicit link to empowerment theory and using both qualitative and quantitative data to develop and validate the Index. The paper concludes that the emergence of pro-WEAI offers a streamlined and improved tool for analyzing intrahousehold characteristics. It incorporates a gender parity index, enhancing the measurement process. This index is also utilized for calculating GDP per capita, providing a more accurate assessment of economic conditions. Overall, pro-WEAI's concise structure and comprehensive approach make it a superior choice for measuring women's empowerment in the agricultural sector.","PeriodicalId":54661,"journal":{"name":"Outlook on Agriculture","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142227427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in agri-food system and recovery pathways in India: A systematic review COVID-19 对印度农业食品系统和恢复途径的性别影响：系统回顾

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241263967

Sreenita Mondal, Erika Valerio

{"title":"Gendered impacts of COVID-19 in agri-food system and recovery pathways in India: A systematic review","authors":"Sreenita Mondal, Erika Valerio","doi":"10.1177/00307270241263967","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241263967","url":null,"abstract":"The agricultural sector, essential for food security and economic stability, especially in developing countries such as India, faced significant disruption during the COVID-19 pandemic. Impacts included labour shortages, limited market access, disrupted supply chains and wasted perishable goods due to mobility restrictions. While many studies have addressed these effects in India, a conspicuous gap remains in understanding how gender dynamics intensify these vulnerabilities within the country. This review synthesises findings from 32 studies, shedding light on the intersection of gender and the pandemic's influence on India's agri-food system. Results revealed a noticeable underrepresentation of gender-centric research on COVID-19's agricultural impacts in India, with many studies being geographically limited. When gender was considered, few critically examined it as a socially constructed role, often reducing it to a mere variable. Women farmers, constrained by societal norms like lack of land rights and limited access to resources, endured more pronounced negative effects. Their participation in wage employment dropped, and household food security dwindled. Furthermore, women in India faced augmented domestic burdens, heightened domestic violence risks and health challenges. Notably absent from current research is a focus on the long-term economic recuperation of rural women post-pandemic within the Indian context and an exploration of varied gender-category impacts. Future research in India must adopt a longitudinal, intersectional lens, combining qualitative and quantitative methodologies, to fully grasp and address these enduring gendered ramifications in the agri-food sector in the post-COVID-19 context.","PeriodicalId":54661,"journal":{"name":"Outlook on Agriculture","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141930612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Opinion leaders’ influence on knowledge transmission about crop diseases management: Exploring the attributes that matter to followers 意见领袖对作物病害管理知识传播的影响：探索对追随者至关重要的属性

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-08-02 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241267764

Michel Kabirigi, Julius B Adewopo, Zhanli Sun, Frans Hermans

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Transforming agriculture and the 70% myths 农业转型与 70% 的神话

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-05-29 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241258328

Jillian Lenné

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Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania 撒哈拉以南非洲经济繁荣的小农农业对土地和技术的要求：坦桑尼亚的证据

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-05-13 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241248667

D. Harris, K. Mausch, J. Chamberlin

{"title":"Land and technology requirements for economically prosperous smallholder farming in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Tanzania","authors":"D. Harris, K. Mausch, J. Chamberlin","doi":"10.1177/00307270241248667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241248667","url":null,"abstract":"Making a living from a small farm is difficult in sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, we quantify how difficult, using a simple, robust, relation between per capita daily income from farming (FPDI), land per capita and whole-farm net profitability per hectare. This relation allows the calculation of the land area required to generate various levels of household income as a function of farm performance. We use nationally representative household data for Tanzania to investigate the range of whole-farm profitability and to estimate an upper limit for it. For 6818 cases where households with land reported figures for gross crop and livestock revenues and for costs in any of the three years 2009, 2011 or 2013, actual median whole-farm net profitability was only $454/ha/y even without including the opportunity cost of family labour. When those were considered, median net profitability was negative $238/ha/y, i.e. a net loss. The maximum whole-farm profitability achieved was $4485/ha/y without family labour costs and $2742/ha/y with it. We evaluated actual and potential farm performance for their ability to generate a range of values of FPDI up to $10 per person per day. Most farms are not very profitable, particularly when household labour costs are considered, and few would be considered economically prosperous. Our analysis underscores the fact that improving their operations or adopting new technologies alone is unlikely to lift many smallholder farmers out of poverty in developing countries, given typical farm size distributions and reasonable assumptions about the realized economic returns to adoption of currently available agricultural technologies. While continued agricultural R&D investments are certainly worthwhile, such efforts alone will be insufficient to meaningfully address welfare needs of the world's rural poor. This suggests that agricultural development programs should expand their attention to incorporate off-farm and non-farm components of the rural economy.","PeriodicalId":54661,"journal":{"name":"Outlook on Agriculture","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140936563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Retracted: “Addressing the challenges and leveraging the opportunities of automation and robotics technologies adoption in agriculture: The case of Ontario, Canada” 撤回："应对农业采用自动化和机器人技术的挑战并利用其带来的机遇：加拿大安大略省的案例"

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241252219

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Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis 乌拉圭农业研究合作网络：基于社会网络分析的探索

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-04-13 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241240779

Mariela Bianco Bozzo, Cecilia Tomassini

{"title":"Collaboration networks in agricultural research in Uruguay: An exploration based on social network analysis","authors":"Mariela Bianco Bozzo, Cecilia Tomassini","doi":"10.1177/00307270241240779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241240779","url":null,"abstract":"Scientific collaboration networks connect researchers across institutions and academic disciplines. Agricultural research involves multiple stakeholders and academic disciplines to address increasingly complex and diverse research agendas. However, the dynamics of collaboration and the patterns of interaction in the agricultural sciences have been little investigated. Uruguay has a rich tradition in agricultural research, but little is known about the ways in which institutional and interdisciplinary collaboration occur and have evolved recently. This article uses relational data from projects documented in researchers’ vitas (CVs) to examine patterns of collaboration in agricultural research in Uruguay during the period 2000–2017. Collaboration networks were explored with social network analysis (SNA) resulting in networks involving varied institutions and academic disciplines. An inter-institutional network with a center and periphery structure is revealed with long-standing science and technology centers as the fundamental nodes. Interdisciplinary collaborations show diversification over time with more academic fields involved in research projects in the agricultural sciences. Joint research between agricultural sciences and other academic fields to address complex current phenomena could benefit from increasing connections with multiple fields in the environmental, social, and health sciences. The study shows the usefulness of SNA and research project data to improve the understanding of collaboration patterns in agricultural research.","PeriodicalId":54661,"journal":{"name":"Outlook on Agriculture","volume":"40 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140571268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture 塑造印度的气候未来：利用农业碳信用额的视角

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Outlook on Agriculture Pub Date : 2024-03-27 DOI: 10.1177/00307270241240778

Ananya Khurana, Dilip Kajale, Adeeth AG Cariappa, Vijesh V Krishna

{"title":"Shaping India's climate future: A perspective on harnessing carbon credits from agriculture","authors":"Ananya Khurana, Dilip Kajale, Adeeth AG Cariappa, Vijesh V Krishna","doi":"10.1177/00307270241240778","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00307270241240778","url":null,"abstract":"Human activities are responsible for emitting greenhouse gases (GHGs) that contribute to global warming and climate change. As the world's second-largest producer of staple food and the third-largest emitter of GHGs, India has been witnessing an increase in demand for food and energy, resulting in increased emissions. Thus, to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2070, India must focus urgently on climate change mitigation. Its agriculture sector has the potential to transition from being a net emitter to a net absorber of GHGs by adopting sustainable farming practices such as zero tillage, laser-assisted precision land leveling, direct seeding of rice, intercropping, biochar application, use of solar energy, and more efficient management of irrigation water, soil nutrients, livestock feed, and manure. To incentivize climate consciousness, a voluntary carbon credit trading system could be utilized in agriculture, supported by a measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification platform. This system would also bring about social, environmental, and financial co-benefits for its stakeholders. Specifically, the agriculture sector could substantially reduce the country's annual emissions by 84% from 2019 to 2070. But to realize their potential, the carbon markets must overcome the limitations currently set by policy, economic, cultural, and biophysical factors.","PeriodicalId":54661,"journal":{"name":"Outlook on Agriculture","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140315610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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