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Drought Risk and Drought Response in Morocco: Vulnerability, Risk Perceptions and Drought Coping Among Rainfed Cereal Farmers
drought, coping, vulnerability, risk, Community/Rural/Urban Development, Food Security and Poverty, Risk and Uncertainty,
Gender dimensions of social networks and technology adoption: Evidence from a field experiment in Uttar Pradesh
The CSISA project was launched in 2009 with the goal of reducing food andincome insecurity in South Asia through accelerated development and deployment of new cereal varieties, sustainable crop and resource systems management practices, and better access to information.
The project includes widespread delivery and adaptation of production and postharvest technologies to increase cereal production and raise income; and promotion of (i) crop and resource manag-ement practices, and (ii) high-¬yielding, stress tolerant and disease-and insect resistant rice, wheat and maize varieties and hybrids. GAAP looked at two different CSISA projects. This project focused on how gendered social networks affect how men and women within the same household acquire information about agricutural technologies, using the technology of laser land leveling (LLL) as an example
Surface composition of BaTiO3/SrTiO3(001) films grown by atomic oxygen plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy
We have investigated the growth of BaTiO3 thin films deposited on pure and 1%
Nb-doped SrTiO3(001) single crystals using atomic oxygen assisted molecular
beam epitaxy (AO-MBE) and dedicated Ba and Ti Knudsen cells. Thicknesses up to
30 nm were investigated for various layer compositions. We demonstrate 2D
growth and epitaxial single crystalline BaTiO3 layers up to 10 nm before
additional 3D features appear; lattice parameter relaxation occurs during the
first few nanometers and is completed at {\guillemotright}10 nm. The presence
of a Ba oxide rich top layer that probably favors 2D growth is evidenced for
well crystallized layers. We show that the Ba oxide rich top layer can be
removed by chemical etching. The present work stresses the importance of
stoichiometry and surface composition of BaTiO3 layers, especially in view of
their integration in devices.Comment: In press in J. Appl. Phy
Crystallographic structure of ultrathin Fe films on Cu(100)
We report bcc-like crystal structures in 2-4 ML Fe films grown on fcc Cu(100)
using scanning tunneling microscopy. The local bcc structure provides a
straightforward explanation for their frequently reported outstanding magnetic
properties, i.e., ferromagnetic ordering in all layers with a Curie temperature
above 300 K. The non-pseudomorphic structure, which becomes pseudomorphic above
4 ML film thickness is unexpected in terms of conventional rules of thin film
growth and stresses the importance of finite thickness effects in ferromagnetic
ultrathin films.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX/LaTeX2.0
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