“While we recognise that the Port of Cape Town (PoCT) management is implementing a terminal turn-around strategy and welcome the acquisition of new infrastructure, the worryingly slow pace at which it is happening remains a deep concern and has direct cost implications for the agricultural sector...
Cost-effectiveness (CE) versus income loss (W) tradeoff of alternative per hectare PES and F incentive mixes.Jan BörnerEduardo MarinhoSven Wunder
Aboveground biomass (AGB) is a widely used agronomic parameter for characterizing crop growth status and predicting grain yield. The rapid and accurate estimation of AGB in a non-destructive way is useful for making informed decisions on precision crop m
According to the consensus of scenarios, without adaptation measures a wide range of changes in cereal yield is reported, with an overall average yield reduction unevenly distributed over a region for grains (e.g., pearl millet, sorghum, maize, and rice), tubers and root crops, groundnuts, c...
2010). For example, if a forest were replaced with cropland , the cost of planting trees or allowing natural regeneration (if still feasible) and cost of maintaining the new plantation or protecting the trees until they reach maturity has to be taken into account. Additionally, the opportunity...
Water scarcity is one of the most important climatic threats in recent times. In Chile, the north and north-central areas, with predominantly arid or semi-arid climates, have been strongly affected by the low availability of water, as well as by overexpl
Moreover, the adoption of drought-tolerant GM maize in Sub-Saharan Africa has been shown to mitigate the impacts of climate change on agriculture, providing a buffer against food shortages during dry spells [27]. This stability is particularly crucial for regions prone to agricultural challenges,...