This cropland expansion would impact biodiversity most in countries such as the United States, Spain, France, India and Brazil. The cessation of Russia’s participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative would lead to a doubling of cropland expansion and biodiversity loss compared with the baseline...
“Wind power is already making a huge contribution to power generation globally, and there is the potential for it to contribute even more as part of the decarbonization agenda outlined in the UN-led 2016 Paris agreement. At Abdul Latif Jameel, we’re acutely aware of wind’s potential to ...
Since 1983, legislators and advocates have introduced Land Access Policy Incentives in twenty of the fifty United States. These bills share a demographic goal: to fund land rental or purchase for young and beginning farmers and ranchers. States’ efforts to facilitate land access are part of a ...
The variation in variable costs was mainly due to incurred expenses with the purchase of seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, weedicides, and labor involved in field operations. In the drip irrigation system, the labor cost was half, as compared to the furrow irrigation system, because in furrow ...
The First Crisis 1949–1950: This chapter describes how China in 1949–1950 dealt with the decade-long hyperinflation crisis that had crumbled the old regime. The crux was how to keep the speculative economy at bay by consolidating a real economy.
Land degradation, food and tenure insecurity are significant problems in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, particularly in the region known as the country’s famine corridor. Addressing these twine issues in the region has become a focal point for both