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From:Nature and Culture (Vol. 4, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article presents local knowledge on ecosystem management by analyzing and discussing traditional tillage practices applied by smallholder farmers as a response to drought risks in dryland areas of Mpwapwa District,...
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From:Economics Research InternationalPeer-ReviewedThis paper analyses farmers' credit allocation behaviors and their effects on technical efficiency Data were collected from 476 farmers using the multistage sampling procedure. The stochastic frontier truncated-normal...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWind erosion poses a serious threat to the socioeconomic well-being of residents in the Sahel region of Niger. Farmers within the Sahel are aware of the environmental degradation associated with soil erosion nd are...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 14, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe perennial and stoloniferous weed, Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. (bermudagrass), is a serious problem in vineyards. The spectral similarity between bermudagrass and grapevines makes discrimination of the two species,...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedMutualistic plant-pollinator interactions are critical for the functioning of both non-managed and agricultural systems. Mathematical models of plant-pollinator interactions can help understand key determinants in...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 53, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe Nitrate Leaching and Economic Analysis Package (NLEAP) is being used by USDA-ARS and USDA-NRCS as a technology transfer tool, capable of providing an assessment of farm management practices on the transport of...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 49, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn agricultural researcher narrates the difficulties he faced while trying to convince corn farmers in Eastern Colorado to break tradition and adopt new planting strategies. The researcher wanted to convince the farmers...
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From:American-Eurasian Journal of Sustainable AgriculturePeer-ReviewedThe economic management of the farms in semi-arid area is made difficult by the great variability of the production inter-annual results. To leave the technical operation of the production systems makes it possible to...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Qi Li 1,*, Guiping Hu 2 Introduction As the world population increases and the amount of arable land decreases, it becomes vital to improve the productivity of available farmland. During recent decades,...
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From:Biogeosciences (Vol. 16, Issue 14) Peer-Reviewed
It is still a severe challenge to optimize the field management practices for a multi-crop system when simultaneously aiming at yield sustainability and minimum negative impacts on climate as well as atmosphere and...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe yearly increase in government R&D investment and top-down national R&D investment allocation requires a more quantitative decision-making system that maximizes R&D performance and efficient budget allocation. Sound...
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From:Agricultural Research (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThat this is even being discussed as a serious possibility shows how quickly the carbon cycle has gone from what seems to many to be an arcane science to securing a place in the world's economic and political arena....
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 56, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedDouglas P. Johansen is a soil scientist with Monsanto Corporation in Atlantic. Iowa. David P. Clay, Gregg G. Carison, Kenneth W. Stange, Sharon A. Clay, Douglas D. Malo, and Joseph A. Schumacher are with South Dakota...
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From:The Futurist (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGrowing food and raising livestock contribute more carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere than does transportation, according to the United Nations. Agriculture is one of the leading causes of deforestation, a key...
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From:Issues in Science and Technology (Vol. 26, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedColorful fruits and vegetables piled to overflowing at a farmers market or in the produce aisle readily come to mind when we think about farming and food production. Such images run counter to those of environmental...
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From:Australian Journal of Soil Research (Vol. 44, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this study was to assess the influence of season, farm management (organic, biodynamic, integrated, and conventional), and soil chemical, physical, and biological properties on gross nitrogen (N) fluxes and...
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From:Latin American Research Review (Vol. 47, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis research note provides a preliminary discussion of changing agricultural and food procurement strategies in a smallholder farming community in Piribebuy District, Paraguay. Although considerable attention has been...
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From:Journal of Soil and Water Conservation (Vol. 61, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedThe amount of farmland in the United States reached a peak at slightly more than 486 million ha (1.2 billion ac) around the mid-point of the last century (Gardner, 2002). In the half-century since, farmland has declined...
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From:Alberta History (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedI was born in the Niagara Peninsula of Ontario, August 15,1881, of Pennsylvania Dutch and German extraction, although Canadian-bred for several generations, I early recoiled from the microcosmic viewpoint of that garden...
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From:SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe potential of oil palm agribusiness for socio-economic development in Indonesia remains a matter of debate. There are important differences between the government's representation of oil palm agribusiness as a...