Exploring the Tomato: Transformations of Nature, Society, and Economy (review)

Lang, James

doi:10.1353/tech.2004.0024

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“…This reduction will see a substantial increase of areas optimal for open field cultivation of tomatoes in Europe, from the Mediterranean to Northern Europe. Northern European tomato cultivation is capital-intensive, using modern technology such as greenhouse structures and climate control (Lang 2004; Heuvelink 2005). Therefore, because it is relatively expensive, future costs of tomato production in these regions could be decreased through open field cultivation, with a saving of the costly energy used to maintain optimal temperature greenhouses.…”

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“…The cultivation of tomatoes is divided into two major production methods: the capital intensive system using modern technology in greenhouse structures, as opposed to the traditional farming of tomatoes in the open field (Lang 2004; Heuvelink 2005), which is far more influenced by climatic factors. Due to unfavourable environmental conditions caused by abiotic factors that include high or low temperatures and excessive water or drought, tomato production is sub-optimal over large parts of the tomato crop-growing areas of the world.…”

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Assessing the impact of global warming on worldwide open field tomato cultivation through CSIRO-Mk3·0 global climate model

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SUMMARYTomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops globally and an important agricultural sector for generating employment. Open field cultivation of tomatoes exposes the crop to climatic conditions, whereas greenhouse production is protected. Hence, global warming will have a greater impact on open field cultivation of tomatoes rather than the controlled greenhouse environment. Although the scale of potential impacts is uncertain, there are techniques that can be implemented to predict these impacts. Global climate models (GCMs) are useful tools for the analysis of possible impacts on a species. The current study aims to determine the impacts of climate change and the major factors of abiotic stress that limit the open field cultivation of tomatoes in both the present and future, based on predicted global climate change using CLIMatic indEX and the A2 emissions scenario, together with the GCM Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)-Mk3·0 (CS), for the years 2050 and 2100. The results indicate that large areas that currently have an optimum climate will become climatically marginal or unsuitable for open field cultivation of tomatoes due to progressively increasing heat and dry stress in the future. Conversely, large areas now marginal and unsuitable for open field cultivation of tomatoes will become suitable or optimal due to a decrease in cold stress. The current model may be useful for plant geneticists and horticulturalists who could develop new regional stress-resilient tomato cultivars based on needs related to these modelling projections.

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“…Rather than treating this deterministically and as a given tendency, Harvey interrogates the practices of the state and explores those ideas that underpin accumulation through dispossession, outlining the spatial dynamics of capitalism's continuous reinvention out of crises. Marc Harvey et al.‘s neo‐Polanyian account (2002) traces the social and political organization of economic life by following the life of a tomato on its journey through a capitalist market economy to demonstrate the distinctive and historical nature of economic institutions. The treatment of ideas in both of the Harveys' accounts entails their subservience to material factors and their instrumentalization in the wider context of a semiotically causal material environment.…”

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Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

Knio

2022

J Theory Soc Behav

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In this article, I discuss the importance of ontology and its implications, demonstrated in the examples of different approaches to neoliberalism. The lack of careful ontological considerations leads to confusing and often contradictory usages of the term 'neoliberalism', obfuscating its usefulness. Instead, I suggest a cartography which consists of integrating two ontological debates -structure-agency and material-ideational -through the interplay between

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“…Besides chilling and freezing temperatures, drought is one of the most important limiting factor of crop production all around the world. The cultivated tomato reached its present status after a long period of domestication and it is now grown throughout the temperate and tropical climates (Harvey et al, 2002).The area of major production is the Northern part of the country, between latitude 8 0 -13 0 N, but the greatest market is mostly in the South and other neighboring countries (Amans et al, 1986). Cultivation of tomato is now widespread throughout the temperate and tropical climate (Harlan, 1984).…”

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RESPONSE OF MOISTURE STRESSED TOMATO (Solanum lycopersicum L.) GROWTH CHARACTERS TO ANTITRANSPIRANTS AT KANO IN SUDAN SAVANA OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

Isa¹

2021

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Antitranpirants are foliar sprayed chemicals to plants in order to reduce the rate of moisture loss and increase productivity of irrigated crops. To test antitranspiracy of Salicylic and Benzoic acids, field experiment was conducted at the Teaching and Research Farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Bayero University Kano (11˚ 97ʹ 98.6ʺ N, 8˚42ʹ 03.7ʺ E) 475 m elevation) during 2011/2012 and 2012/2013 dry seasons to study the effects of antitranspirants and moisture stress on crop growth and development stages of tomato. The treatments consisted of two antitranspirants at four concentrations each (0, 200, 400 and 600 ppm) and three moisture stress stages (vegetative, flowering and fruit setting). Antitranspirants and moisture stresses were assigned to the main plot and concentrations were used as sub-plot treatment. These were replicated three times and laid out in a split-plot design. Data were taken on some growth attributes of tomato and subjected to analysis of variance data using Statistical Analysis Software (SAS). The results revealed that, application of Salicylic acid at 600 ppm significantly enhanced leaf area, total dry matter, crop growth rate, relative growth rate and net assimilation rate better than application of Benzoic acid. Interaction between and among different factors were significant on leaf area, total dry matter, crop growth rate and relative growth rate. Flowering and fruiting stages were found to be the critical growth stages for moisture stress of tomato. The study concluded that application Salicylic acid enhanced the growth characters of moisture stressed tomato better than Benzoic acid. It was recommended that 600 ppm of Salicylic acid should be foliar sprayed on moisture stressed tomato in the study area.

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Exploring the Tomato: Transformations of Nature, Society, and Economy (review)

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Assessing the impact of global warming on worldwide open field tomato cultivation through CSIRO-Mk3·0 global climate model

Assessing the impact of global warming on worldwide open field tomato cultivation through CSIRO-Mk3·0 global climate model

Why and how ontology matters: A cartography of neoliberalism(s) and neoliberalization(s)

RESPONSE OF MOISTURE STRESSED TOMATO (Solanum lycopersicum L.) GROWTH CHARACTERS TO ANTITRANSPIRANTS AT KANO IN SUDAN SAVANA OF NORTHERN NIGERIA

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