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Potentials of plantain peel and Tithonia diversifolia leaves as soil amendments in enhancing performance and nutritional contents of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum)

open access: yesHeliyon, 2023
Screen house experiment was conducted in 2020 at the Landmark University Teaching and Research Farm Omu-aran, Kwara State. The experiment was carried out to evaluate the potential of dried unripe plantain peel and Tithonia diversifolia as soil amendments
Faith Oluwatobi Okunlola   +8 more
doaj  

Just the tonic! Legume biorefining for alcohol has the potential to reduce Europe’s protein deficit and mitigate climate change [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Industrialised agriculture is heavily reliant upon synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and imported protein feeds, posing environmental and food security challenges.
Black, Kirsty   +10 more
core   +4 more sources

Soil productivity improvement under different fallow types on Alfisol of a derived savanna ecology of Nigeria

open access: yesHeliyon, 2021
Fallowing is considered an important management strategy for the restoration of soil productivity. Therefore, a three-year fallow of pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan), mexican sunflower (Tithonia diversifolia) and elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) was ...
Aruna Olasekan Adekiya   +8 more
doaj  

The Contribution of Land Registration and Certification Program to Implement SDGs: The Case of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia

open access: yesLand, 2022
Land is the key asset in the agricultural sector and hence land policy is one of the key elements that determine whether SDGs are achieved in developing counties or not.
Ayelech Kidie Mengesha   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Our shifting perspectives on the oceans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
In the last 15 years new research findings have radically reshaped our understanding of human effects on ocean ecosystems. Here I describe five major shifts in perspective that reveal our impacts to be more severe and persistent than previously ...
Roberts, C.M.
core   +1 more source

Agrivoltaics: The Environmental Impacts of Combining Food Crop Cultivation and Solar Energy Generation

open access: yesAgronomy, 2023
The demand for food and renewable energy is increasing significantly, whereas the availability of land for agricultural use is declining. Agrivoltaic systems (AVS), which combine agricultural production with solar energy generation on the same area, are ...
Moritz Wagner   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Standardized metrics to quantify solar energy-land relationships: A global systematic review

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2023
Ground-mounted solar energy installations, including photovoltaics (PV) and concentrating solar power (CSP), can have significant environmental, ecological, and sociocultural effects via land-use and land-cover change (LULCC).
Alexander E. Cagle   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cell free supernatant for sustainable crop production

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
The increase in demand for food production due to the ever-increasing human population across the world requires that food production should grow exponentially. For agricultural food production to meet the needs of human requirements and demands there is
Elizabeth Temitope Alori   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A forest path towards an education for global citizenship

open access: yesThe European Zoological Journal
Long-term zoological and ethological field research plays a substantial role in developing effective biodiversity conservation actions. At the same time, stable research facilities in areas where subsistence economies prevail foster the development of ...
A. Colangelo   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

More green infrastructure is required to maintain ecosystem services under current trends in land-use change in Europe [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Green infrastructure (GI), a network of nature, semi-natural areas and green space, delivers essential ecosystem services which underpin human well-being and quality of life.
BARANZELLI CLAUDIA   +12 more
core   +1 more source

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