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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"agricultural sustainability"”.
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Maximizing the Benefits of Desalinated Seawater Supply for Agricultural Sustainability
… infrastructure between the mining and agricultural sectors could reduce costs and environmental impacts. The results indicate that coordinated planning can lower the marginal cost of desalinated water by up to 58%, although practical adoption depends on sectoral incentives and …
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THE ROLE OF ADAPTATION AND INFORMATION IN AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE
… adaptations are vital to the maintenance of both sustainability and resilience of agro-ecosystems during severe weather events. They can allow agricultural producers to maintain the many functions of these systems, including food, fiber, and fuel production as well as water filtration, soil …
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Soil degradation in China: implications for agricultural sustainability, food security and the environment
… threatens food security, the environment and agricultural sustainability. In the first essay in Chapter 2, I develop a dynamic optimization model for soil management and provide implications for the influence of externalities on intertemporal management of soil capital. This chapter …
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A computer vision framework to transform produce waste into value for agricultural sustainability
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment
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Healing the land : monitoring transformation and agricultural sustainability on a Western Cape land reform project
… have severely constrained access to land for agricultural production. Moreover, the impact of commercial agriculture on nature and society, warrants that alternative approaches to agriculture be investigated. Land reform provides a unique opportunity to motivate for social change, premised on …
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A case study of investment in agricultural sustainability: adoption and policy issues for nitrogen pollution control in the Chesapeake Bay drainage
… In particular, excess nitrogen loadings from agricultural production activities threaten water quality in the Bay. Questions have been raised about how effectively traditional BMPs can control nitrogen loss from crop production. This study examines agricultural nitrogen pollution control from …
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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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Continuous living cover for the Upper Midwest: from hairy vetch nodules to the lanscape scale
… will be critical in efforts to improve agricultural sustainability.
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Vertical City
… highlights the concern about using valuable agricultural land for urban purposes. To mitigate horizontal land expansion, the study explores the potential solution of increasing city height limits. Analysis of proposals like Le Corbusier's Three Million City and Radiant City provides insights …
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Coping with uncertainty: perspectives on sustainability of smallholder agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa
Agricultural sustainability of smallholder farms in the tropics has rarely been examined in an integrated manner by addressing simultaneously ecological, social and economic dimensions and exploring its spatial and temporal characteristics. In this submission I have prepared a Context Statement …
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AI-Driven Suitability Modeling for Sustainable Olive Cultivation: An Environmental Assessment in a Changing Climate
… intelligence (AI) to shape sustainable agricultural futures in a world facing accelerating climate change, resource depletion, and land degradation. Key crops can be made more resilient through effective frameworks that combine environmental science with artificial intelligence and …
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Molecular Characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana Snf1-Related Kinase 1
… SnRK1.1 regulation may reveal mechanisms for agricultural sustainability and may offer valuable links to understanding metabolic diseases and lifespan in humans. Therefore, the research presented here centered on characterizing the regulation of SnRK1 gene expression and steady-state protein …
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Maximising the benefits of cover crops through optimising the use of rotations, nitrogen fertiliser and organic manures
… crops is highlighted as a method to enhance the sustainability of crop production. This involves growing species of plants over winter on land that would otherwise be left fallow. Cover crops sequester nutrients, protect soil from the elements through mitigation of excess rainfall, enhance crop …
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Maize and the Call of Place: Practicing Reciprocity through Local Crop Adaptation
… motivates individual commitments to place-based agricultural sustainability, and 3) a multispecies creative practice and process which requires the navigating of messy and oftentimes agonistic place-based multispecies relationships. Across the three papers flows the theme of “call and response” – …
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Targeting tillage intensity in Michigan soybean systems: On-farm observations and multivariate modeling of grower decision-making with implications for yield and soil carbon
… work in behavioral economics, human ecology, agricultural engineering, agronomy and soil science, it asks: What factors influence Michigan soybean growers’ selection of tillage technologies, and how do selected tillage technologies interact with variation in management history and the extant …
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Evaluation of Prairie Cordgrass (Spartina pectinat, link) for Biomass Production on Marginal Land
… farmers to search for new crops that increase agricultural sustainability and profitability. The use of bioenergy crops such as switchgrass and prairie cordgrass will help to meet future energy and biomass needs through the process of converting crop biomass into bioenergy sources with less …
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Information Asymmetry and Profitability of Tomato and Butternut Value Chains: A case of Nwanedi Agri-hub
The agricultural economic subsector plays a crucial role, in food and nutrition security, trade balance, employment creation, and the supply of raw materials to agro-industries, however, the participation of smallholder farmers in the agricultural production chain and their contributions to value …
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Exploring the Links between Communality, the Metabolic Relationship, and Ecological Sustainability: A Case Study of a North-West of Ireland Community (c. 1930s-50s)
… the metabolic relationship, and ecological sustainability. It does so through case study research of a rundale system of production context (because rundale was a communal mode of production) in North-West Mayo in Ireland (c. 1930s-50s). The aim of my research is to contribute to discussion …
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Advancing Soil Moisture Mapping with Multi-Modal Drone Sensing and AI: Integrating GPR, Hyperspectral, and Thermal Imaging for Precision Agriculture
… to optimize irrigation management, enhance agricultural sustainability, and address the challenges posed by global water scarcity.
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Ecosystem services provided by native New Zealand plants in vineyards
… value of native New Zealand plants within the agricultural landscape of the Waipara District, Canterbury Province, New Zealand with regards to their provision of ecosystem services (ES). ES have undergone extensive study with the conclusion that they are vital to maintain and improve the …
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