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Agricultural entrepreneurs in conflict and post-conflict regions
face special challenges; not just everyday personal risks, but also
the difficulties of building small businesses when real or
threatened violence can disrupt business growth cycles and economic
security. Alongside establishing secure institutions, building a
secure economy is rightly seen as the best way for conflict-torn
regions to establish a peaceful future. But current agricultural
entrepreneurship training and development starts from an assumption
of peace, meaning that it is not always fit for purpose. The result
is sub-optimal program design and inefficient use of resources. A
product of a collaboration of experts in the fields of
agri-business, agricultural marketing, and international
development, this book gives officials and agencies developing
entrepreneurship programs the practical real-life examples they
need. Key Features: * Based on research by experienced field
practitioners. * Establishes best practice approaches for
supporting agri-entrepreneurship in conflict regions. * Range of
global case studies to illustrate lessons learnt.
Conservation agriculture systems have long-term impacts on
livelihoods, agricultural production, gender equity, and regional
economic development of tribal societies in South Asia. This book
presents South Asia as a case study, due to the high soil erosion
caused by monsoon rainfall and geophysical conditions in the
region, which necessitate conservation agriculture approaches, and
the high percentage of people in South Asia relying on subsistence
and traditional farming. The book takes an interdisciplinary
approach to analyse systems at scales ranging from household to
regional and national levels.
This book presents major challenges and opportunities facing
agriculture sectors in the wake of the transition from a planned to
market economy. Using Albania as a case study, it examines the
shift from communism to free markets and the lasting effects of
such change on agricultural production and education. Using primary
research sources to give readers an accurate portrayal of the path
that lies ahead for many developing countries, the book also looks
at the future of agriculture in transitioning economies.
Photovoltaic electricity generation is a rapidly growing industry,
and a key pillar of a decarbonised energy system. In modern solar
cells, laser technology is used to form localised structures such
as a selective emitter through doping or to locally ablate
dielectric layers for contact definition. A critical factor is the
ability to passivate the laser-induced defects to prevent premature
charge carrier recombination reducing the cell efficiency.
Hydrogenation is such a passivation technique. The exact mechanisms
have until recently been poorly understood, so this timely
reference covers the recent breakthroughs in the understanding of
hydrogen passivation. The book addresses key technologies for
improving the efficiency of solar cells, including the
industry-dominating PERC concept with an added rear passivation
layer to reduce recombination. Coverage includes hydrogen
passivation mechanisms, bulk and surface defect passivation,
hydrogenation of light-induced defects, potential negative impacts
of hydrogen, and laser doping for rapid diffusion and for selective
emitter formation. This work also provides brand new results that
enable low-quality silicon to be used for heterojunction
applications and could pave the way for future low-cost,
high-efficiency silicon solar cell technologies featuring
passivated contacts to be fabricated on p-type wafers. This work is
indispensable for researchers in the field of photovoltaic energy,
in academia as well as industry.
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