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Bioeconomic Entrepreneurship and Key Factors of Development: Lessons from Argentina
(2022-02-21)
For Argentina, a country with large biomass availability, scientific-technological capacities
and a strong agro-industrial sector, bioeconomy comes with an opportunity for sustainable local and
national development. As ...
New or Traditional Approaches in Argentina's Bioeconomy?: Biomass and Biotechnology Use, Local Embeddedness, and Sustainability Outcomes of Bioeconomic Ventures
(2022-11-04)
The bioeconomy continues to be a contested field in the political debate. There is still no consensus on how a bioeconomy should be designed and anchored in society. Alternative bioeconomy concepts that deviate from the ...
Trends and Prospects of Change in Wheat Self-Sufficiency in Egypt
(2022-12-20)
Egypt is the largest wheat importer in the world; however, it produces only half of the 20 million tons of wheat that it consumes annually. The population of Egypt is currently growing by 1.94% per year, and projections ...
Metrics Assessment and Streamflow Modeling under Changing Climate in a Data-Scarce Heterogeneous Region: A Case Study of the Kabul River Basin
(2022-05-25)
Due to many uncertainties in hydrological data and modeling, the findings are frequently regarded as unreliable, especially in heterogeneous catchments such as the Kabul River Basin (KRB). Besides, statistical methods to ...
Spatiotemporal Analysis of Groundwater Storage Changes, Controlling Factors, and Management Options over the Transboundary Indus Basin
(2022-10-15)
Intensive groundwater abstraction has augmented socio-economic development worldwide but threatens the sustainability of groundwater resources. Spatiotemporal analysis of groundwater storage changes is a prerequisite to ...
Testing the mHM-MPR Reliability for Parameter Transferability across Locations in North–Central Nigeria
(2022-09-02)
Hydrologic modeling in Nigeria is plagued by non-existent or paucity of hydro-metrological/morphological records, which has detrimental impacts on sustainable water resource management and agricultural production. Nowadays, ...
Pixel-Based Long-Term (2001–2020) Estimations of Forest Fire Emissions over the Himalaya
(2022-10-23)
Forest/wildfires have been one of the most notable severe catastrophes in recent decades across the globe, and their intensity is expected to rise with global warming. Forest fire contributes significantly to particulate ...
Performance Evaluation and Water Availability of Canal Irrigation Scheme in Punjab Pakistan
(2022-01-28)
The supply of surface water by century-old infrastructure causes substantial water loss and triggers huge abstractions of groundwater, resulting in low irrigation efficiency. We evaluated the irrigation performance ...
Women’s participation in household decisions and gender equality in children’s education: Evidence from rural households in Pakistan
(2022-01-29)
In this study we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children’s education incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. To this end, we estimate changes in households’ share ...
Severe climate change risks to food security and nutrition
(2022-12-30)
This paper discusses severe risks to food security and nutrition that are linked to ongoing and projected climate change, particularly climate and weather extremes in global warming, drought, flooding, and precipitation. ...
