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"Assessing the sustainability of cacao production in Davao Region, Philippines"
Continuously increasing global demand for cacao products serves as an opportunity for the emerging cacao industry in the Philippines. Catching up with the market demands led to conventional intensification, raising environmental burdens on cacao... Read more.MS in Agricultural Economics (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Communication initiatives and the socio-cultural construction of disaster risk in a riverine community in Infanta, Quezon, Philippines"
Natural disasters and climate variability pose insurmountable challenges to sustainable human development because they shake the structure of social systems and the built environment. Contrary to existing literature, risk is not a neutral concept... Read more.PhD in Development Communication (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Comparative analysis of mixed-transcriptomes between tomato and rice infected with the plant pathogenic fungi Botrytis cinerea and Magnaporthe oryzae"
Fungal pathogens persistently develop different strategies to circumvent plant defenses so that they can attack and enter their host. Botrytis cinerea is a devastating necrotrophic pathogen of tomato. However, most previous studies have explored... Read more.MS in Global Agriculture Technology and Genomic Science (National Taiwan University)"Dynamics of carbon stock, greenhouse gas emissions, and energy use of selected coffee-based (Coffea arabica L.) agroforestry farms in Timor Leste"
Agroforestry is an important carbon sequestration strategy because of carbon storage potential in its multiple plant species and soil as well as its applicability in agricultural lands and in reforestation. The study was conducted in selected... Read more.PhD in Forestry: Forest Resources Management (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Economic analysis of supply chain of mud crab in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam"
The thesis on economic analysis of the supply chain of mud crabs (Scylla paramamosain) in the Mekong Delta aims to propose solutions to improve the economy of the mud crabs in the Mekong Delta. The thesis used the economic analysis method of supply... Read more.PhD in Agricultural Economy (Cantho University)"Economic and spatio-temporal analysis of food and nutrition security in Mindanao, Philippines"
Despite efforts to address hunger and malnutrition, pockets of food and nutrition insecurity persist in Mindanao. This study examined the economic and spatio-temporal aspects of macro level food and nutrition security (FNS) in Mindanao, focusing on... Read more.PhD in Agricultural Economics (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Economic effects of strategic interaction in the irrigated rice-based system in the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar"
In the irrigated area of the Central Dry Zone of Myanmar, spatial interdependence as an indicative of strategic interaction among farmers in the choice of cropping system was observed by the analysis using the Binary Spatial Auto-Regressive (BSAR... Read more.PhD in Agricultural Economics (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Economic improvement of Queen pineapple farmers through production innovations and marketing strategies"
This dissertation examines ways to improve the economic condition of Queen pineapple through production innovations and marketing strategies. Pineapple cultivation provides sustainable livelihood to many smallholder farmers in developing countries... Read more.PhD in Agricultural Science (Nagoya University)"Epidemiology of rice blast and productivity of rice-corn intercropping system in Sulawesi, Indonesia"
Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating rice diseases worldwide. Intercropping supports sustainable rice farming practices by promoting biodiversity and potentially inhibiting the spread of plant diseases. This study... Read more.PhD in Plant Pathology (University of the Philippines Los Baños)"Evaluation of agro-morphological, molecular, and input factors for seed production and detection of seed after ripening period of Timor-Leste rice landraces"
Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the main staple food in Timor-Leste. Various rice landraces are found but the available data and information on their existence is still very limited. This study aimed to obtain information on genetic diversity based on... Read more.PhD in Seed Science and Technology (Institut Pertanian Bogor)