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Nutrition & Food Science, 1971
Factory farming, artificial fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and more recently antibiotics have all added fuel to the great emotional fire that is fanned when scientists are seen to interfere with nature. There is no doubt that some aspects of the present day use of chemicals in agriculture do give cause for concern but if the aims of the farmers ...
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Factory farming, artificial fertilisers, pesticides, herbicides and more recently antibiotics have all added fuel to the great emotional fire that is fanned when scientists are seen to interfere with nature. There is no doubt that some aspects of the present day use of chemicals in agriculture do give cause for concern but if the aims of the farmers ...
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IoT for Agribusiness: An overview
2020 IEEE 11th Latin American Symposium on Circuits & Systems (LASCAS), 2020The world needs more food. More population and less arable land will produce a big challenge for the agriculture and food producers. It is easy to imagine that technology can help to solve this important and critical issue. However, technology has been far from the agribusiness so far. Only big farmers have approached technology.
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Profit and hegemony in agribusiness
Nature Plants, 2018The insidious control over farming practices exercised by seed companies is an example of how powerful actors in the agri-food system promote profit over environment and health. More important, is the question of how we can shape a more desirable farming system that works for farmers, the public and the environment.
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1992
The rural life, especially farming, to the outsider may appear idyllic and as the ‘good life’, but it contains many lurking dangers. Hazards have increased, despite the reduction in the labour force. In 1989 those employed in agriculture, fishing and forestry were under 300,000, a reduction by a third on 1970.
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The rural life, especially farming, to the outsider may appear idyllic and as the ‘good life’, but it contains many lurking dangers. Hazards have increased, despite the reduction in the labour force. In 1989 those employed in agriculture, fishing and forestry were under 300,000, a reduction by a third on 1970.
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