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Kinkese, Theresa. "Climate change impacts and farmers' responses in Chilanga District, Zambia." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27524.

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Climate change and variability are predicted to threaten agricultural production in Southern Africa. For example, Zambia's agriculture remains vulnerable to climate change and variability due to the small-scale farmers' dependence on rain-fed agriculture. Some studies in Zambia have shown the quantitative negative impacts of climate variability on agriculture; however, there is limited knowledge on how farmers perceive the impacts and adapt their agricultural systems. To fill in the knowledge gap mentioned above, the aim of the present study was to evaluate farmers' observations of climate var

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Pam, Stephen John. "Essex agriculture : landowners' and farmers' responses to economic change, 1850-1914." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2004. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2677/.

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This thesis responds to the perennial quest for regional and local investigations into agricultural history, a theme reiterated in the recently published volume of the Agrarian History of England and Wales. It examines landownership and farming in Essex C.1850 and 1914, a large county with a variety of soils and market accessibility enabling investigation of the broader debate on agriculture. It has made use of official sources and returns, newspapers, oral evidence and, in particular, Essex estate papers, many of which have not been used before. Existing interpretations of 'golden age' agricu

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Diaw, Adja Adama. "Agricultural practices and perceptions of climate change in Keur Samba Guéye village, Senegal, West Africa." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50976.

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This research uses a mixed methods approach to analyze recent climate and land use changes, and farmers\' perceptions of climate change and its impacts on traditional agriculture in the village of Keur Samba Guéye (KSG). This work looks at the influence of social beliefs in adoption of new strategies by small farmers in this region, a topic that has received little or no study to date. Traditional agriculture in KSG is not very productive at present because of the impoverishment of the area and traditional agricultures strong dependency on natural climatic conditions. In this research, I ident

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Bailey, Meghan. "Unequal adaptation : socially differentiated responses to environmental change and food insecurity among smallholder farmers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:48688400-1c0f-4195-b9fd-38f214297d1f.

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Achieving food security in a changing climate is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. For subsistence-oriented farming families who experience firsthand pressures on their food system - population growth, environmental degradation and climate change, to name only a few - adaptation has become an urgent necessity. The ability to 'adapt and benefit' through a suite of climate change adaptation interventions that build adaptive capacity is touted by many humanitarian and development institutions as integral to food security today. However, adapting and benefiting is often a far rea

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Beaulieu, Antoine. "Farmers’ Responses to Drivers of Forest Cover Change: The Case of Mae Chaem District, Thailand." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36890.

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Empirical forest transition (shift from deforestation to reforestation) literature has historically struggled to establish a single universally-accepted forest transition “theory” due to various knowledge gaps hindering any efforts to do so. One such gap is the fact that very few studies have focused on how and why smallholder farmers respond to commonly accepted forest transition drivers, as well as how these responses impact forest cover and agricultural trends. Also, there remain many parts of the world where forest cover evolution has been insufficiently researched, as is the case of Mae C

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Cobb, Richard Norton. "The merging of agricultural and environmental policy : a study of farmers' responses to policy change." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.385192.

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The research aimed to examine the prospects for integration of agricultural and environmental policy in East Anglia. Farmers' responses to a less predictable policy environment and economic pressures are analysed. In addition, their reaction and attitudes towards recent initiatives with an environmental dimension, is explored. A total of 175 farmers were interviewed in 1990 and 1991 in Norfolk and Suffolk. Farmers were deliberately selected who control large areas of land, and who produce large volumes of outputs. The response of these farmers to an integrated agricultural and environmental po

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Awumey, Richard Cephas Yao. "Human responses in development : an exploratory study of frustration as a factor in farmers' post-adoption behaviour." Thesis, University of Reading, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.235861.

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Shayamunda, Locardia [Verfasser], and Benno [Akademischer Betreuer] Pokorny. "Small-scale farmers' strategies in dealing with crises: an analysis of household responses to crisis in four villages in rural Zimbabwe." Freiburg : Universität, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1240610734/34.

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Mwaka, Innocent [Verfasser], and Michael [Gutachter] Bollig. "Agricultural improvement? Persistence and change in agricultural development ideas and farmers' responses in Kilombero Valley, Tanzania (1900-2015) / Innocent Mwaka ; Gutachter: Michael Bollig." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1226286402/34.

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Gosalamang, Dikgang Stephen. "Econometric analysis of supply response among beef farmers in Botswana." Thesis, University of Limpopo (Turfloop Campus), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/693.

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Thesis (M.Sc. (Agricultural economics)) --University of Limpopo, 2011<br>The cattle (especially beef) industry in Botswana has traditionally played an important role in the country’s economy, with significant contributions to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), exports, and employment, as well as playing an important role in social and cultural spheres. Agriculture contributes about 2.3 % of GDP, out of which 70% - 80% is attributable to cattle production. By 2004, beef exports amounted to P284m, approximately 1.7% of total exports of P16.2 billion. In recent years, however, there have been signs of

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Chereni, Simbarashe. "Smallholder farmers response to changes in the farming environment in Gokwe-Kabiyuni, Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2010. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_2950_1298634276.

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<p>Following Bryceson&rsquo<br>s article, &lsquo<br>De-agrarianisation in Sub-Saharan Africa: Acknowledging the Inevitable&rsquo<br>, and other related writings in the volume Farewell to Farms, rural development has become a contested academic and policy domain. One side of the debate is characterized by &lsquo<br>agrarian optimism&rsquo<br>, mirrored in various state policies and advice from the World Bank<br>the other side is typified by the de-agrarianisation thesis, which is sceptical regarding the agrarian path to rural development, because it doesn&rsquo<br>t accord with dominant trends.

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Fisher, Rhiannon. "The role of social capital in influencing the response capacity of farmers to bovine tuberculosis." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2012. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/1178/.

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Bovine tuberculosis (bTB) is one of the principal concerns currently facing the livestock industry in England. The disease has spread dramatically in recent years and is costing the country millions of pounds each year. Tens of thousands of cattle are being slaughtered annually; a huge financial and emotional burden to affected farmers. While various measures to control the disease have been taken, none have been successful in bringing it under control. Instead bTB continues to spread unabated. The essence of the bTB problem is that it necessitates industry buy-in in order to implement disease

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Folck, Alcinda L. "Trouble in the air: Farmers’ perceptions of risk, self-efficacy, and response efficacy regarding herbicide drift." The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1512135233700015.

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Gyamfi, Matthew Kwasi. "Environmental change and farmer response in the Forest-Savanna Transitional Zone of Ghana." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0006/NQ35170.pdf.

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Frimpong, Kwasi. "An appraisal of experiences of climate change and adaptive response to heat stress by farmers in rural Ghana." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2015. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1653.

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With the increase in average global temperatures, heat-related illnesses and deaths have unfolded as occupational and health issues. Periods of high to extreme temperatures are becoming more common and are a leading cause of weather-related deaths in many countries. In agricultural settings of African countries, heat stress is a major concern as many smallholder farmers work outdoors with limited access to cooling systems even in their resting and living environments. This study, conducted in the Bawku East part of Northern-East Ghana in 2013, examines, in the context of climate change, the tr

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Kerrell, Elaine. "Farmers' response to set-aside : an assessment of policy induced agricultural change in the European Union, 1988-1992." Thesis, University of Huddersfield, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327178.

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Riedo, Giulia. "Drought Response Mechanisms and Adaptation: An Analysis of Strategies Adopted by Wine Grape Farmers in the Western Cape." Master's thesis, Faculty of Science, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/31211.

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This thesis examines the response mechanisms and adaptation strategies adopted by grapevine farmers to counteract the effects of the 2015-2018 Western Cape drought, which was characterised as particularly rare and severe. The challenges that emerged during the drought within the study area were exacerbated by the increasing competition over water resources between urban and agriculture users, as investment to supply water to urban users are expected to bring more economic and social value than investments in water supply for agriculture. The study responds to the dearth of literature on climat

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Banham-Hall, Dominic. "Active power control response from large offshore wind farms." Thesis, Brunel University, 2012. http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/11051.

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The GB power system will see huge growth in transmission connected wind farms over the next decade, driven by European clean energy targets. The majority of the UK’s wind development is likely to be offshore and many of these wind farms will be interfaced to the grid through power converters. This will lead to a loss of intrinsic inertia and an increasing challenge for the system operator to keep grid frequency stable. Given this challenge, there is increasing interest in understanding the capabilities of converter control systems to provide a synthesised response to grid transients. It is int

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Ohlsson, Moa. "Exploring Social-Ecological Response Capacity to Drought of Swedish Farms." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-170264.

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Ecosystem services are intrinsically social-ecological. The capacity to provide them over time is both dependent on the functional attributes of species that contribute to ecological processes and social assets underpinning management practices. Yet, these two dimensions are rarely integrated or empirically assessed, even though their interaction contributes to the overall capacity of a social-ecological system to respond. In this study, theoretical frameworks of resilience, adaptive capacity, and ecosystem services are combined to explore “social-ecological response capacity” as the ability o

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Singh, Chandni. "Understanding water scarcity and climate variability : an exploration of farmer vulnerability and response strategies in northwest India." Thesis, University of Reading, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631701.

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Rainfed farming in semi-arid India is marked by its vulnerability to climate variability, accelerating resource degradation, and asset constrained populations. With climate change poised to exacerbate existing stresses on smallholder farming, there is a need to understand the factors constraining and enabling farmer adaptation. Integrated watershed development has emerged as a policy instrument to encourage and institutionalise sustainable natural resource use, to diversify rural livelihoods, and to build local capacity and propel rural development. Against this backdrop, this study had three

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Vuong, Thao Thi Phuong. "Farmers' perceptions of the "Unleashing the Power of Cassava in Africa in Response to the Food Crisis" (UPoCA) project : Experiences from Malawi." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för geovetenskaper, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-171455.

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The “Unleashing the Power of Cassava in Africa in Response to the Food Price Crisis” (UPoCA) project carried out by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture from 2008 to 2010 aimed to assist farmers to increase food security and improve livelihoods through promoting cassava cultivation. In this study, 120 beneficiary households of the UPoCA project in Kasungu and Dowa provinces in Malawi were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire together with key informant interviews and focus group discussions. The aim was to find out their perceptions of the UPoCA project, food securi

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Kjeldahl, Rasmus. "Direct income payments to farmers : uses, implications and an empirical investigation of labour supply response in a sample of Danish farm households." Thesis, Imperial College London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.283728.

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Le, Rouge Mary Frances. "How Literate Responses to Technical Communication Can Promote Practical Responses to Environmental Change." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1622204365670828.

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Beyer, Molly. "The Public Health Response to an Ebola Virus Epidemic: Effects on Agricultural Markets and Farmer Livelihoods in Koinadugu, Sierra Leone." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2019. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1538797/.

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During the 2013/16 Ebola virus disease outbreak in West Africa, numerous restrictions were placed on the movement and public gathering of local people, regardless of if the area had active Ebola cases or not. Specifically, the district of Koinadugu, Sierra Leone, preemptively enforced movement regulations before there were any cases within the district. This research demonstrates that ongoing regulations on movement and public gathering affected the livelihoods of those involved in agricultural markets in the short-term, while the outbreak was active, and in the long-term. The forthcoming thes

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Larson, Jennifer Lynn. "The Comparison of Airway Responses of Normal Horses Fed Round Bale versus Square Bale Hay." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/43464.

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Background – Feeding horses round bale hay (RBH) has been associated with airway inflammation. The purpose of this study was to determine if horses fed RBH for a 6-week period demonstrated more evidence of airway inflammation than horses fed square bale hay (SBH) of comparable quality. Hypothesis - The respiratory health of horses fed RBH will not differ from horses fed SBH of comparable quality. Animals – Two feeding groups of 15 healthy horses (mixed ages, breeds) from the University riding program. Methods – This was a prospective study performed during fall of 2009. At the beginning

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Barkerud, Rickard. "Welfare Evaluation of Stunning Practices for Farmed Fish in the European Union." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för biologi och miljö (BOM), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-107042.

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An optimal method for stunning animals before slaughter should result in instantaneous and irreversible insensibility. Today, there are various stunning and slaughter practices used around the world for farmed fish. With aquaculture being a growing food sector, the welfare of the animals used has become increasingly important in the consciousness of consumers, researchers and regulatory bodies. With growing research into the subject matter, an overview to summarize and examine how these practices impact on the welfare of the fish, and how well they conform to animal welfare legislation, is war

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Buseva, Teiksma. "The vulnerability of Latvia’s agriculture: Farm level response to climatic and non-climatic stimuli." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema vatten i natur och samhälle, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-71589.

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Agriculture is a climate sensitive sector whether it changes moderately and slowly or radicallyand rapidly. Many studies that focus on the vulnerability of agriculture, use climate scenariosand crop models to assess the potential impacts. This study seeks to identify (1) farmers‘awareness and perceptions of climate variability and change; (2) the types of adjustments theyhave made in their farming practices in response to these changes (farm responses, adaptivestrategies); and (3) other external factors (government policies, social, technological andeconomic conditions) that have significant i

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Maina, Immaculate Njuthe. "Research extension farmer linkages and the gender factor perspectives on the demand-driven agricultural technology and information response initiative (ATIRI) in Nakuru District, Kenya." Weikersheim Margraf, 2008. http://d-nb.info/993761291/04.

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Ferreira, Ana Filipa Cordeiro. "Análise econométrica da formação do preço do porco no produtor em Portugal." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11013.

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Mestrado em Econometria Aplicada e Previsão<br>O comportamento dos preços do porco no produtor em Portugal são influenciados pela trajectória dos preços do porco em Espanha, sendo que os produtores no mercado português são price-takers face ao mercado espanhol. Tal deve-se à proximidade entre ambos os países, ao facto de Espanha ser o principal parceiro comercial de Portugal neste setor, e ainda à grande dimensão do setor suinícola espanhol face ao português. Os resultados obtidos a partir da estimação de um modelo VAR(2), corroboram esta premissa, de que o preço do porco no mercado espanhol

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Zhang, Wei, Xue Zhang, Yuling Tian, et al. "Risk Assessment of Total Mercury and Methylmercury in Aquatic Products from Offshore Farms in China." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/2624.

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Contamination of methylmercury (MeHg) in aquatic products has been a wide spread health concern. The objective of this study is to determine total mercury (THg) and MeHg concentrations in different species of aquatic products from major offshore farms in China, and to assess health impacts from consumption. Results showed that the concentrations of THg and MeHg ranged 5.6–328.4 ng/g (wet weight) and 4.3–303.6 ng/g (wet weight) in aquatic products, respectively, and were very variable among species and origin sources. Target hazard quotient (THQ) suggested that MeHg exposure via consumption pos

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Hammond, Katie L. "Coping with the Coffee Crisis: A Household Analysis of Coffee Producers' Response to the Coffee Crisis in Polo, Dominican Republic." Ohio : Ohio University, 2010. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1269003517.

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Brown, Jennifer. "Human responses, resilience and vulnerability : an interdisciplinary approach to understanding past farm success and failure in Mývatnssveit, northern Iceland." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/2828.

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This thesis presents a new perspective on the study of past farm success and failure; it builds on the concepts of resilience and vulnerability to construct a theoretical framework which integrates environmental, historical and ethnographical data. The basic framework establishes that the resilience or vulnerability of a social-ecological system is a function of three factors: i) the exposure of the system to external (environmental) stresses, ii) the sensitivity of the system to these stresses and iii) the ability of the human component of the system to respond to them. The research focused o

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Meyer, Ryan C. "Vegetation Response to Restoration Treatments in a Former Pine Plantation in North Florida." UNF Digital Commons, 2009. http://digitalcommons.unf.edu/etd/316.

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As the human population in Florida continues to expand, development follows, and tree farms give way to homes and businesses. As parks are established, restoration of these semi-natural plantations may provide critical habitat for species conservation. This study evaluates vegetation response to restoration treatments at two study sites, formerly tree farms, now preserves in NE Florida. Treatments included thinning, clearing, or control (no treatment) within 10m^2 plots. Thinning reduced tree canopy to 20% (2-3 pines/plot) and removed all other vegetation; clearing treatments removed all bioma

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Ollion, Emilie. "Evaluation de la robustesse des vaches laitières : entre aptitudes biologiques des animaux et stratégies de conduite des éleveurs." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF22622/document.

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Les systèmes d’élevage répondant aux principes de l’agroécologie doivent pouvoir s’adapter aux variations de leur environnement, en particulier parce qu’ils sont pensés pour maximiser l’utilisation des ressources locales et minimiser l’utilisation d’intrants. La composante animale des systèmes d’élevage peut dans ce contexte représenter un levier d’adaptation aux perturbations de l’environnement et contribuer à la pérennité des systèmes. Ainsi, produire des connaissances qui permettront de sélectionner des animaux robustes c’est-à-dire capables de se maintenir et de maintenir leurs performance

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Picard, Sánchez María Amparo. "Control of enteric parasitic diseases of farmed gilthead sea bream: New insights into Enteromyxum leei (Myxozoa) and Enterospora nucleophila (Microsporidia) infections." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/167035.

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[ES] La producción en acuicultura se ha visto menguada por aparición de enfermedades en los sistemas de cría de peces. En concreto, en la dorada (Sparus aurata), hay dos parásitos destacados: Enteromyxum leei (Myxozoa) y Enterospora nucleophila (Microsporidia). Hasta la fecha, para ninguno de los dos se ha establecido un cultivo in vitro, y solo para E. leei se ha conseguido establecer un modelo de mantenimiento de la infección in vivo. La presente tesis pretende incrementar el conocimiento sobre estos parásitos y sus relaciones con el hospedador, sentando las bases para generar soluciones que

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Mallows, Catriona Joelle. "Cultivating solutions: oyster farmers’ responses to environmental change in British Columbia." Thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13001.

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Climate change is already impacting many coastal ecosystems and the communities that depend upon them. Efforts to mitigate and adapt to it will likely further strain these socio-ecological systems. This points to the need for research that explores the socio-ecological dynamics of environmental change, in order to better understand how community resilience can best be supported during a period of rapid global environmental change. This research uses a case study of the oyster farming industry on the West Coast of British Columbia (B.C.). This thesis explores two interrelated clusters of questi

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Stozek, Troy. "BSE, farmers and rural communities: impacts and responses across the Canadian Prairies." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/3094.

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The emergence of the zoonotic disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Canada resulted in a severe agricultural crisis. However, little is known about the ways in which farmers and rural communities were affected. The overall objective of this study is to characterize and better understand the impacts on and responses of farmers and rural communities as they relate to this crisis. Research was undertaken in strata throughout the diverse three Canadian prairie provinces – Alberta, Saskatchewan and Alberta – by employing surveys and focus groups. Results indicated there were numerous

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Gray, Lyndon Robert. "Kwanalu commercial farmers' perceptions of and management responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/6095.

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In South Africa commercial agriculture employs approximately 8.5% of the national workforce. Therefore, information about commercial farmers’ perceptions of and management responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic are likely to be of interest to policy makers and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the health sector, as well as practitioners in rural development and commercial agriculture. HIV/AIDS affects businesses such as commercial farms by decreasing productivity, increasing costs and therefore decreasing overall profitability. Farm business’ responses to the challenges posed by HIV/AIDS ma

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Nishi, Maiko. "Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Land in Japan: Farmers’ Perspectives and Responses to Farmland Banking." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-htaa-vv53.

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This dissertation examines the emergence and implementation of a new intermediary mechanism of farmland tenancy in Japan with a focus on farmers’ perspectives. Japan’s government introduced the Farmland Bank (FB) program in 2014 in an attempt to avoid further farmland abandonment and revitalize the farming industry. By design, the program gives more power to prefectural authorities to accommodate new actors and resources in tenancy arrangements even without farmland owners’ consent so as to expedite farmland aggregation and generate better economies of scale. This is a major turning point sinc

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Trang, Thi Thu Nguyen, and 阮氏秋莊. "Risk Perception and Responses to Climate Change of Rice Farmers in Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r39z49.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>農業經濟學研究所<br>105<br>Rice is the most important food crop in Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. The region is the Vietnam’s rice bowl which produces rice accounting for more than 80% of Vietnam’s annual rice exports. Impacts of climate change in forms of more frequent droughts, floods, crop diseases, and salinity intrusion have undermined rice production, consequently destabilizing rice prices and creating food security issues in the region. To deal with this urgent problem, farmers cultivating rice in the region have changed their actions autonomously and purposely to adapt to the cha

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Nguyen, Thao Cong. "Changing traditions and identities : the ecology of the differential responses of Tai and Kinh farmers to governmental agrarian and technological initiatives in Northwest Vietnam." Thesis, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/12065.

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Botterill, Linda. "Muddling through or just a muddle : Australian government responses to farm poverty 1989-1998." Phd thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148109.

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Chenoweth, Florence Alletta. "Small farmers' response to economic incentives a case study of small farmers in Liberia /." 1986. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/15543596.html.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1986.<br>Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-246).

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JIN, YUAN-TAI, and 金元泰. "An econometric studyon the supply response of beef-cattle raising farmers in Korea." Thesis, 1987. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09008157143675546513.

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Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel. "Adapting to land reform : self-selection, production and the response of subsistence farmers to land restitution in post-socialist Romania /." 2001. http://www.library.wisc.edu/databases/connect/dissertations.html.

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Kephe, Priscilla Ntuchu. "Risk and vulnerability analysis of dryland agriculture under projected climate changes : adaptive response in South African summer rainfall areas." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/3352.

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Thesis (Ph.D. (Geography)) -- University of Limpopo, 2020<br>Agriculture in South Africa, particularly in the summer rainfall areas, faces the challenge of optimal crop production in the face of climate change. Climate change scenarios for South Africa have been predicted to have a negative impact on agriculture particularly in the summer rainfall areas because of its dependence on climate variables. Within the context of the South African agricultural sector, it has become important to identify who and what is most vulnerable to impacts of climate change, so that support for adaptation can

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Castanheira, Maria Filipa Bento de Oliveira Falcão. "Plasticity of coping styles in farmed fish: behavioural and neuro-endocrine profiling." Doctoral thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/8997.

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Tese de doutoramento, Ciências Biológicas, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade do Algarve, 2016<br>Intensive aquaculture practices frequently expose fish to a range of stressors. Gilthead seabream (Sparus aurata) is the most important farmed species in the Mediterranean, and like in other vertebrates, exhibit pronounced individual differences in stress responsiveness, however to which extent such variability is part of coping styles remains unclear. As such, this Thesis aimed to provide methods and tools to analyse coping styles in seabream, with specific reference to the presence

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Alcorn, Philip John. "Crown dynamics and pruning response in young plantation-grown Eucalyptus pilularis and Eucalyptus cloeziana trees." Phd thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150339.

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Nembudani, Nkhumeleni Lesly. "Response of rodents to land use gradients in small-holder farms in Northern Limpopo: implications for ecologically-based rodent management (EBRM)." Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/958.

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MENVSC<br>Department of Ecology and Resource Management<br>Rodents can quickly respond to land use changes whether the change positively or negatively influences their life. In the case of positive influence, rodents exploit the additional food resources and increase their numbers to potential pest level, especially in the absence of predators. Such a population increase can potentially be harmful to humans due to the diseases that rodents carry and the costs due to damage to crops, stored foods and personal possessions that they may cause to small holder farmers. Small holder farmers liv

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HUNG, LI CHIH, and 李志鴻. "Research into Countermeasures Adopted by Large Scale Farms in Response to Adjustments in the Kinmen Sorghum Contracted Cultivation System:The Huang Family Farm a Case Study." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/70786800446801587741.

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碩士<br>國立中興大學<br>農業推廣教育研究所<br>92<br>Abstract The sorghum industry constitutes the largest part of the agricultural sector in Kinmen and currently faces major changes brought about by the internationalization of trade. On the basis of these two main, this research has two broad objectives: (1) An analysis of the current management status and difficulties of large-scale farms, (2) An analysis of countermeasures adopted by large-scale farms against adjustments in the Kinmen Sorghum Contracted Cultivation System. Having adopted purposive sampling, this research concentrates on a case stu

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