Systematic flotation carried out at the site of Baodun provides good data for understanding the early movement of rice agriculture into the region (d'Alpoim Guedes and Jiang 2011).
Movement of rice in the early days of its cultivation to new locations where water availability was seasonal, rather than perennial, appears to have been crucial for its eventual domestication as an annual cereal.
2. The movement of rice southeastwards through Indonesia eventually ceased owing to the presence of a resistant Papuan-speaking population, still dominant today in New Guinea, that had no interest in its adoption as a viable crop.
Continued habitat conservation of irrigation ponds is important to sustain resident fish populations and maintain biodiversity in these agricultural landscapes and expanded use of stable isotope inventory approaches will be useful to quantify fish movement in rice paddy field ecosystems.
One line, completed prior to World War II, connects Phnom Penh with the Thai frontier and facilitates the movement of milled rice from the western provinces of Bătdâmbâng, Poŭthĭsăt, and Kâmpóng Chhnăng.
The first organized form of Taoism, the Tianshi (Celestial Masters') school (later known as Zhengyi school), developed from the Five Pecks of Rice movement at the end of the 2nd century CE; the latter had been founded by Zhang Daoling, who claimed that Laozi appeared to him in the year 142.
The crop has become the cause célèbre of the anti-GM movement, which sees golden rice as a tool of global capitalism.
Sierra Leone is undergoing significant transitions in land use, with large biofuels projects and movement from subsistence swamp rice farming to mixed crops such as cassava and commercial farming of palm and rubber.
Citing surveillance footage, Katsaris said that the decision to shoot was forced by Rice's movements.
It is unsurprising that Pakistan responds to price movements in other Asian rice markets as it liberalized its rice industry in the later 1990s.
