Industrial grain production, driven by large-scale monoculture and intensive use of synthetic inputs, has become a cornerstone of global food systems. However, its environmental, social, and economic sustainability is increasingly called into question. The depletion of soil health, biodiversity...

This report reviews lessons learned from public stock management in developing countries with a long history of using them. It draws insights from the existing literature and the background studies prepared for this report on Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, and Uzbekistan in Asia; Ghana,...

The study investigated the determinants of adopting E-commerce among maize traders, focusing on the Savings Grains App. E-commerce implications on marketing effectiveness and the value co-creation opportunities were also analyzed. Primary data was sourced from 130 maize traders. Descriptive...

This paper attempts to provide insights into the current network configurations of the food-trade system and to study the short-term effects of one of the ongoing and lasting global crises, the Ukraine War, on the link intensity. Towards this end, this analysis (1) reveals the pattern of...

This study aimed to analyze the obstacles to lowering demurrage at a grain terminal. After conducting in-depth interviews with working-level staff in grain terminal, 12 factors were selected to derive key factors for reducing demurrage. The Consistent Fuzzy Preference Relations methodology,...

We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This article describes the sources and the methodology followed to create calendar-year-based price series in grams of silver per...

This paper assesses the impact of the Black Sea Grain Initiative on the grain futures market. We rely on counterfactual evaluation techniques and detailed futures price series to estimate how corn and wheat futures prices and historical volatility responded to the Grain Deal enforcement,...

Planning nationwide sustainable logistics for grain exports at a tactical level assumes flexibility in handling uncertainties. Despite the dynamic operations, the solution's approach focuses mainly on optimisation, leaving out the queuing requirements. This paper presents a...

Between 1829 and 1853, the Lower Danube region became one of the strategic grain supply points for the Mediterranean entrepôts and a source for supplementing Britain's food requirements. The Crimean War ended in 1856 with Russia's removal from the Mouths of the Danube. In this context, in...

Within the internal research plan of the Research Institute for Agrarian Economy and Rural Development, runs the project entitled "Marketing studies for sustainable agri-food products and consumption behavior analysis, in the European Strategy from farm to Fork objectives context". This paper...

The conflict between Ukraine and Russia raises several questions and uncertainty about the cereal supply chain and market trends. This international crisis and other factors influencing the market, such as the environmental and climate ones, have placed greater attention on Italy's dependence on...

Between 1829 and 1853, the Lower Danube region became one of the strategic grain supply points for the Mediterranean entrepôts and a source for supplementing Britain's food requirements. The Crimean War ended in 1856 with Russia's removal from the Mouths of the Danube. In this context, in...

China reached the Lewis turning point in the first decade of the twenty-first century. While the impact of increasing wages was insignificant in the pre-Lewis turning point era, its negative impact on agriculture may be substantial in the post-Lewis turning point era. By analyzing a theoretical...

We apply the GTAP multi-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to analyze the economic impacts of the major disruptions of exports of grains and metals from the combatants of the Ukraine War on their own economies and those of others. The simulation results indicate that these...

The Grain for Green Program (GFGP) in China, one of the largest Payment for Ecosystem Service (PES) schemes, has been regarded as an effective approach to achieving sustainable development. However, the conclusion of the impact of GFGP on farmers’ income reported in the existing literature is...

The current context generated by the armed conflict between Ukraine and Russia brings to the foreground an important issue concerning the international trade in cereals, mainly the transit of cereals from/to Ukraine via the Black Sea to/from Ukraine's trading partners. While the transit of...

Benefiting from pedoclimatic conditions favorable to grain cultivation, Romania was an important player in international trades. In the context of the current geopolitical changes, the paper aims to identify the position occupied by Romania in the global trade of maize and wheat in the period...

The paper presents the evolution of the market for the main cereal crops (wheat, corn, barley) at the national level in the period 2017-2021. These cereals, as well as others, constitute one of the groups of food carriers that occupy the largest share of the total food consumed, representing for...

This paper aims to assess the impact on the budget of the main cereal crops in Romania, following the disruptions in the fertilizer market that led to accelerated price increases for this category of inputs. The income and expenditure budgets will be studied, both for the technological framework...

It is widely recognized that climate change makes the weather more erratic. Since the combination of temperature and precipitation is a major driver ofgrain crop productivity, more frequent extreme rainfalls and heat waves, flooding and draught tend to make grain production and hence grain...

The importance of phospholipase C (PLC) in plant development has been demonstrated in several studies. OsPLC1, a member of PI-PLC in rice, although its role in the response to salt stress of rice seedlings has been reported, its functions in the growth and development of rice is elusive. Here,...

The study of evapotranspiration (ET) is of great theoretical and practical significance for understanding the regional ecological and environmental problems and hydrological cycle processes. The Grain for Green Project (GFGP) in the Chinese Loess Plateau was used as the study area. Based on...

An extraordinary high-strength dilute Mg-0.8Al-0.1Ca-0.6Mn (wt. %) alloy wire was successfully developed by hot drawing, which exhibits high tensile yield strength of 394 MPa, ultimate tensile strength of 431 MPa and moderate elongation to failure of 6.0%. The high strength was mainly attributed...

The aim of the present study is to investigate the microstructure and mechanical properties of the Al/Cu/Sn/Ni multi-layered composite (MLC) processed by accumulative roll bonding (ARB) at room temperature over seventh cycle. Microstructural results by scanning electron microscopy show that the...

Accepted theories explaining a principle cause for sharp yield points and the ductile-brittle transition in hypoeutectic plain carbon steels can be supplemented by the existence of hard grain boundary walls. Atomic Force Microscopy revealed that grain boundaries between adjoining grains in these...

A novel mathematical model based on the recently proposed Changing Grain Size Model (CGSM) was developed to take into account the grain size distribution, the sintering effect, and the grains overlapping phenomenon in the particle during the carbonation and calcination of pure limestone. The...

One of the key materials for all-solid-state batteries based on oxide electrolytes is the polycrystalline Li 7 La 3 Zr 2 O 12 (LLZO). It has been reported that metallic Li can accumulate at LLZO grain boundaries during operation, causing a short circuit and, hence, a failure of the battery....

Grain size is a critical factor determining materials properties but is challenging to be modulated in nanoscale. Here, we found the grain size can be enhanced from ~23 nm to ~557 nm for Cu but slightly from ~30 nm to ~145 nm for Cu 96 W 4 with the substrate temperature from 298 to 773 K using...