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Showing 1 to 20 of 164 for “"Sustainable Agriculture"”.
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ANTIMICROBIAL PEPTIDES FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
L'agricoltura moderna si basa principalmente sull'utilizzo di pesticidi chimici per proteggere le colture da patogeni e parassiti. Tuttavia, l'uso massiccio di questi composti ha portato all'insorgenza di ceppi resistenti, all'inquinamento ambientale e al danno agli organismi non bersaglio. Per …
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Embedded Within Landscapes: Agrarian Philosophy and Sustainable Agriculture
… agrarianism provides a model for sustainable human habitation within heterogeneous landscapes. Thoreau's Transcendentalism and the historical roots of American Agrarianism are explored as influences for wilderness preservation and the New Agrarian movement. Idealizing a distant …
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Sustainable agriculture in central Illinois: Visioning the future
Agricultural regions are under increasing pressure to provide more food for increasing populations while global biodiversity is at risk imperiling the future health of people, wildlife and native species. Integration of the two promotes agricultural sustainability as well as provides vital …
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Negotiating identity within the Sustainable Agriculture Advocacy Coalition
… prominent national coalition efforts to promote sustainable agriculture are examined: the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Integrated Farm and Food Systems Network, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education …
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Architecture Against Global Warming: A Research Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
… of the earth. One major source stems from agriculture and the indirect processes surrounding it. Current methods of unsustainable agricultural production including intensive monoculture crop cultivation, industrial animal agriculture and extensive food miles.This thesis proposes a Research …
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The Effects of Storytelling on Worldview and Attitudes toward Sustainable Agriculture
… damage to the earth and to society and is unsustainable, yet the worldview of a substantial percentage of the population conflicts with this assessment. A significant number of researchers, non-governmental organizations, and government entities assert that the detrimental effects of …
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Towards sustainable agriculture in the developing world: Theoretical perspectives and empirical insights
… is to offer perspectives to contextualize sustainable agriculture in relation to two societal contexts beyond farm and watershed: (1) the developing country context, and (2) the fresh fruit and vegetables (FFV) sector (with special reference to the agri-food standard called `Good …
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COMPARISON AND EVALUATION OF RICE (ORYZA SATIVA L.) CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
… et al., 2021). In the European Union (EU), agriculture contributes 12 per cent of the total GHG emissions. It is a major driver of environmental issues such as biodiversity loss and eutrophication (Leip et al., 2015). In reply, the EU has introduced the European Green Deal (European …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… the efficacy of using participatory education on sustainable agriculture to address them at a local level. Specifically, it evaluates an action-oriented education and sustainable agriculture program in Honduras, from the perspective of the participants and my own participation, as a means to …
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Action-Oriented Sustainable Agriculture Education: Attitudes Towards Nutrition and Agricultural Practices in Guaimaca, Honduras
… the efficacy of using participatory education on sustainable agriculture to address them at a local level. Specifically, it evaluates an action-oriented education and sustainable agriculture program in Honduras, from the perspective of the participants and my own participation, as a means to …
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Structural and functional insights to Bacillus spore germination and toxin engineering for sustainable agriculture
Bacillus spores exhibit extraordinary resilience, surviving extreme environmental conditions through dormancy and reactivating under favourable conditions via germination. Germination is triggered by specific environmental signals detected by germinant receptors, initiating a cascade of events that …
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Is South Africa on the road to achieving sustainable agriculture? : An environmental law perspective
The appearance and development of the concept of sustainable agriculture in international legal discourse has taken place in a period of human history characterised by elevated understanding of the complex relationship between humanity and its surrounding environment.
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INTEGRATED TERRITORIAL APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE: NITROGEN MANAGEMENT AND SOIL CARBON SEQUESTRATION IN LOMBARDY REGION
In the last years, intensive agriculture and high concentration of livestock activities have become two important environmental concerns, being partially responsible of nitrogen pollution and CO2 emissions caused by carbon loss from soil. That’s particularly true in Lombardy region, due to the …
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Gender as a social construct of quality of life within farm families practicing sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture constitutes an internationally recognized critique of conventional agricultural practices. The criteria defining sustainable agriculture are diverse and, in some cases, contradictory. However, proponents of sustainable agriculture do not aggressively question such diversity …
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Envisioning the Farms of the Future: In Pursuit of Sustainable Agriculture in the Rio Grande valley
… to define the parameters that characterize sustainable agriculture on the level of an individual farm in the context of the central Rio Grande valley. Using historical sources about New Mexican agriculture, contemporary scientific literature and interviews with practicing farmers in the …
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Incentivizing Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia: Empirical Essays on the Role of Social Norms and Information Provision
… these challenges, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) placed significant emphasis on sustainable agriculture, particularly through SDG - 2, which seeks to end hunger and promote sustainable food production. In line with these efforts, there has been a growing …
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Design of an Affordable, Precise Irrigation Controller that Lowers the Barrier to Water- and Energy-Sustainable Agriculture
… theory to practice of accessible precision agriculture technology and offers tangible evidence of the POWEIr controller’s potential to raise agricultural sustainability.
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Organic Food for Thought: How Larger Countries Can Learn from Smaller Export Countries When it Comes to Sustainable Agriculture
… small country accomplished this feat through sustainable agriculture while producing twice the amount of food with the half the amount of resources. It looks at the current environmental problems that the world faces today and proposes a solution through the framework of the Netherlands …
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