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Recommendation 6

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The evaluation process can serve as an aid for risk analysis in apple orchards, promoting management benefits and reducing cost on farms.

Taxon: appleMalus domesticae0
Outcome: an aid for risk analysise1
Qualifier: promoting management benefits and reducing cost in the farmse1

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“incidence of aerial pests in a commercial apple orchard”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 237–292

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“The process of evaluation described in this study can serve as an aid for risk analysis, promoting management benefits and reducing cost in the farms”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1141–1290

Title

Analysis of pest incidence on apple trees validated by unsupervised machine learning algorithms

Eduardo Antonio Speranza; Célia Regina Grego; Luciano Gebler Revista Engenharia na Agricultura - REVENG 2022. doi:10.13083/reveng.v30i1.12919

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Bt corn use is an important strategy for reducing aflatoxin risk.

Taxon: cornZea mays subsp. mayse3
Outcome: reducing aflatoxin riske3

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“These results suggest that Bt corn use is an important strategy in reducing aflatoxin risk, with corresponding economic benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 692–820

Title

The Impact of Bt Corn on Aflatoxin-Related Insurance Claims in the United States

Jina Yu; David A. Hennessy; Felicia Wu Scientific Reports 2020. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-66955-1

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The authors conclude that 1:1 harvesting reduces risk while maintaining yields and benefits.

Taxon: rain-fed landt0
Outcome: water harvesting with a 1:1 crop: catchment ratioe0

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“Within-field water harvesting with a 1:1 crop: catchment ratio thus reduced risk by reducing investments in seed and animal draught power, whilst maintaining yields and net benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1002–1183

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“rain-fed land”
✓ located verbatim in the source · title, characters 77–90

Title

Catchment basin water harvesting as a means of improving the productivity of rain-fed land in upland Balochistan

D. J. Rees; Z. A. Qureshi; S. Mehmood; et al. The Journal of Agricultural Science 1991. doi:10.1017/s0021859600076188

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Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 55% for 1:1 plots.
Intervention effect Catchment runoff increased water storage by 43% for 2:1 plots.
Intervention effect Water harvesting increased yield per cropped area.
Intervention effect Across trials, 1:1 treatment yield was 95% of control yield.
Intervention effect Waterlogging reduced yields in 2:1 plots.
Intervention effect Overall costs fell 18% with 1:1 water harvesting.
Intervention effect Overall costs fell 31% with 2:1 water harvesting.
Intervention effect Net benefits for 1:1 harvesting equalled or exceeded the control.
Intervention effect Net benefits for 2:1 harvesting were 32% lower.

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An on farm trial supports risk reducing benefits from site specific phosphorus and potassium management.

Treatment: site-specific P&K managemente0
Outcome: risk-reducing benefitse0
Direction: risk-reducinge0
Setting: Eastern Cornbelte0

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“Empirical evidence from an on-farm trial of site-specific P&K management in the Eastern Cornbelt supports the hypothesis that precision farming can have risk-reducing benefits”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 491–666

Title

RISK MANAGEMENT POTENTIAL OF PRECISION FARMING TECHNOLOGIES

Lowenberg-DeBoer, James RePEc: Research Papers in Economics

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Method / resource A theoretical model suggests plausible conditions in which precision farming reduces temporal yield variability.

Intervention effectobservedoriginal resultpositivesimulated

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Elevated CO2 reduces the risk of Amazon tree mortality during drought through water-saving benefits.

Taxon: treee0
Treatment: eCO2e0
Outcome: risk of tree mortalitye0
Direction: reducinge0
Qualifier: during drought episodese0

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“eCO2 provides water-saving benefits, reducing the risk of tree mortality during drought episodes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1180–1276

Title

The impacts of elevated CO ₂ on forest growth, mortality, and recovery in the Amazon rainforest

Yitong Yao; Philippe Ciais; Emilie Joetzjer; et al. Earth System Dynamics 2024. doi:10.5194/esd-15-763-2024

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Intervention effect Elevated CO2 enhances Amazon forest growth in the simulations.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 promotes competition among Amazon forest trees in the simulations.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increases natural self-thinning of Amazon forest stands in the simulations.
Observation The simulated forest growth gain outweighs the associated tree loss under elevated CO2.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 increases background biomass density, making extra carbon loss possible during severe drought.
Mechanism Elevated CO2 may increase carbon losses during severe drought because more background biomass is available to lose.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 accelerates simulated drought recovery in the Amazon forest.
Intervention effect Elevated CO2 enhances simulated drought resistance and resilience in the Amazon forest.

Intervention effectauthor interpretationoriginal resultpositivemeasured

Claim · model-written summary

An on-farm trial supported risk reduction from site-specific phosphorus and potassium management.

Treatment: site-specific P&K managemente0
Outcome: risk-reducing benefitse0
Direction: risk-reducinge0
Setting: Eastern Cornbelte0

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“Empirical evidence from an on-farm trial of site-specific P&K management in the Eastern Cornbelt supports the hypothesis that precision farming can have risk-reducing benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 500–676

Title

Risk Management Potential of Precision Farming Technologies

J. Lowenberg-DeBoer Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 1999. doi:10.1017/s1074070800008555

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Method / resource A theoretical model suggests precision farming can reduce temporal yield variability under plausible circumstances.

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Reduced tillage and compaction were associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Taxon: sugarcanee1
Treatment: reducing tillage and compactione0
Outcome: water quality riske1
Direction: reducee1

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“They included improving fallow management and reducing tillage and compaction, practices that have been promoted for production rather than N discharge benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1452–1613

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“agronomic practices that could be promoted to reduce water quality risk while maintaining or improving yields of sugarcane crops”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1793–1921

Title

Assessing water quality for cropping management practices: A new approach for dissolved inorganic nitrogen discharged to the Great Barrier Reef

Peter J. Thorburn; Jody S. Biggs; Kevin McCosker; et al. Journal of Environmental Management 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115932

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Method / resource The NiLRI metric expresses nitrogen discharge risk as fertilizer applied per cane yield.
Method / resource NiLRI values from experiments and commercial crops spanned all seven risk classes.
Association Practices most influential for NiLRI had little direct impact on nitrogen management.
Association Improved fallow management was associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Associationauthor interpretationoriginal resultmeasured

Claim · model-written summary

Improved fallow management was associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Taxon: sugarcanee1
Treatment: improving fallow managemente0
Outcome: water quality riske1
Direction: reducee1

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“They included improving fallow management and reducing tillage and compaction, practices that have been promoted for production rather than N discharge benefits.”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1452–1613

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“agronomic practices that could be promoted to reduce water quality risk while maintaining or improving yields of sugarcane crops”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1793–1921

Title

Assessing water quality for cropping management practices: A new approach for dissolved inorganic nitrogen discharged to the Great Barrier Reef

Peter J. Thorburn; Jody S. Biggs; Kevin McCosker; et al. Journal of Environmental Management 2022. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115932

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Method / resource The NiLRI metric expresses nitrogen discharge risk as fertilizer applied per cane yield.
Method / resource NiLRI values from experiments and commercial crops spanned all seven risk classes.
Association Practices most influential for NiLRI had little direct impact on nitrogen management.
Association Reduced tillage and compaction were associated with lower nitrogen water quality risk.

Associationobservedoriginal resultsimulated

Claim · model-written summary

Shorter intervals between avoided outbreaks increase the modeled benefit of nursery practices.

Outcome: benefit of introducing best practicese0
Direction: greatere0
Setting: nursery sectore0

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“The costs and benefits of introducing best practices in the nursery sector and for society at large were explored in relation to avoiding potential impacts of introductions of new pathogens in the wider woodland environment. The analysis formed part of a wider project on the drivers of introduction and spread of Phytophthora species and opportunities for mitigation by plant nurseries. The effect in reducing the risk …” Show full quote
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 234–823

Title

Reducing disease risks to British forests: an exploration of costs and benefits of nursery best practices

Gregory Valatin; Colin Price; Sarah Green Forestry An International Journal of Forest Research 2022. doi:10.1093/forestry/cpac003

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Claim · model-written summary

GE technology reduced production risk exposure.

Taxon: cornZea mays subsp. mayse1
Treatment: GE technologye1
Outcome: risk exposuree1
Direction: reducinge1

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“reducing risk exposure”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 413–435

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“A significant part of the benefits of GE technology comes from protecting corn yield and reducing risk exposure”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 324–435

Title

Selecting corn hybrids in the transgenic era

Joe Lauer; Guanming Shi; Jean-Paul Chavas Proceedings of the Integrated Crop Management Conference 2015. doi:10.31274/icm-180809-165

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Observation Some GE corn technologies increased yield.
Observation Some GE traits decreased corn yield.
Observation GE technology protected corn yield.
Mechanism Gene interactions affected corn productivity through yield lag and yield drag.
Observation New GE technologies often required 3 to 4 years to reach conventional hybrid yields.

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The review found that crop rotation practices offer agronomic and economic benefits and can reduce agricultural risk.

Outcome: agronomic and economic benefitse0

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“conservation agriculture practices, such as crop rotation systems, present bothm agronomic and economic benefits and can be strategies for reducing the risks inherent to agricultural activity”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1402–1593

Title

Economic and risk evaluation of crop rotation systems: literature review

Fernando Pires Vieira; Alcido Elenor Wander Quaestum 2024. doi:10.22167/2675-441x-2024861

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Observation The review identified 25 relevant articles; 76% covered only economic analysis and 24% included risk analysis.

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The future growing season shifts to a wetter part of the year, reducing the risk of late-season drought stress in chickpea.

Taxon: chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)Cicer arietinume0
Outcome: risk of late season drought stresse4
Qualifier: a shift in growing season to a wetter part of the yeare4

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“water-limited condition of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 89–145

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“This is the consequence of a shift in growing season to a wetter part of the year and reduced the risk of late season drought stress”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 762–894

Title

Potential Benefits from Adaptation to Climate Change in Chickpea - TI Journals

Amir Hajarpoor; Afshin Soltani; E Zeinali; et al. Agriculture Science Developments 2014

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Intervention effect Chickpea yield is projected to increase by 37-89% under future climate conditions.
Intervention effect Crop earliness and early sowing could further increase chickpea yield by 12-82% under future climate.
Intervention effect Crop earliness and early sowing could increase chickpea water use efficiency by 9-75% under future climate.
Recommendation New chickpea varieties should be released with shorter growth periods than current ones.
Recommendation Sowing dates of chickpea should be advanced whenever possible.

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