Publications
NIBIOs employees contribute to several hundred scientific articles and research reports every year. You can browse or search in our collection which contains references and links to these publications as well as other research and dissemination activities. The collection is continously updated with new and historical material.
2015
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Martin T. Moroni Dave M. Morris Cindy Shaw Jogeir N. Stokland Mark E. Harmon Nicole J. Fenton Katarina Merganičová Jan Merganič Kimiko Okabe Ulrike HagemannAbstract
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Nenad Djuro Keča Ned Klopfenstein Mee-Sook Kim Halvor Solheim Steve WoodwardAbstract
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The Cableway Location Problem (CLP) is a facility location problem usually studied as a part of a hierarchical approach for large cable yarding systems outside of Europe. Small adaptable cable yarding systems are used in Europe. This increases the number of possible landing sites and makes the layout problem hard to solve to optimality. Here, two approaches are presented that solve the novel European CLP (E-CLP). The methods are tested on several generated cases and one real world case. The lateral yarding distance is introduced in the cost calculations to improve the quality of the solutions.
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Ranjan Roy Ngai Weng Chan Stefanos XenariosAbstract
An evaluation is needed to monitor the progress of sustainable development (SD) in rice production systems. The purpose of this study is to provide policy inputs, examine the sustainability of rice production, and determine major policy areas. A requisite set of 12 indicators of three dimensions of SD, namely economic, was generated by employing an assemblage of top–down and bottom–up approaches. The data were gathered from farm households’ survey as well as in-depth discussion with stakeholders from the regions that represent irrigated, rain-fed lowland, rain-fed upland, flood-prone, and saline-prone rice-growing ecosystems in Bangladesh. By constructing composite indicators, the results revealed that 44 % of rice growers were economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially developed. The irrigated rice production system was found to be the most sustainable. The path analysis measured the contribution of the indicators to the index, and results highlighted that rice growers’ knowledge, skills, and social networks development, improving land productivity, and integrated nutrient management were essential for promoting sustainable rice production. However, the study findings suggest that pluralistic (i.e., government and non-government) agricultural advisory services can serve as an engine of transition to rice production sustainability in which a multi-year planning and strategy formulation are crucial besides investing in the modernization of extension services. Overall and ecosystem-specific policy implications that emerged from the findings of this study are outlined.
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Belén Cotes Linda-Marie Rännbäck Maria Björkman Hans Ragnar Norli Nicolai V. Meyling Birgitta Rämert Peter AndersonAbstract
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Giovanna Sacchi Vincenzina Caputo Rodolfo M. Jr. NaygaAbstract
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France Caillavet Gayaneh Kyureghian Rodolfo M. Jr. Nayga Coline Ferrant Pierre ChauvinAbstract
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