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Climate science in support of sustainable agriculture and food security [PDF]

open access: bronzeClimate Research, 2010
Agriculture is deeply interconnected with weather and climate, the main drivers of agri- culture production, but also the dominant factors in the overall variability of food production. Agri- culture constitutes the principal livelihood of 70% of the world's poor; many of them are hungry and living in vulnerable, climate-sensitive areas.
R. Selvaraju   +2 more
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A Dedicated MRI for Food Science and Agriculture

open access: bronzeFood Science and Technology Research, 2008
A dedicated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus that is small, lightweight, and usable in an ordinary research room was devised for developmental research and quality estimation of foods and agricultural products. The thawing processes of frozen margarine and meats were traced, the distributions of oils in adipose tissue (fat) and water in ...
Mika Koizumi   +4 more
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Composted Materials on Florida Roadsides

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
This fact sheet gives a brief overview of a two-year project conducted by researchers of the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (UF/IFAS) as part of contract WO#7 with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT ...
Grady L. Miller   +3 more
doaj   +5 more sources

Market Development Strategies for Florida Fresh Sweet Corn: Findings from a Consumer Survey, 2001

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
From 1998 through 2001, the Fresh Supersweet Corn Council promoted fresh sweet corn directly to consumers through a third-party communications agency. In 2001, the Council contracted with the Florida Agricultural Market Research Center at the Institute ...
Tom Stevens   +4 more
doaj   +5 more sources

IFAS's IPM, BMPs, FYN and More: An Alphabet Soup of Good Environmental Programs for Florida

open access: yesEDIS, 2005
The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) has three related programs that often are confused within the IFAS community and by our clientele: Integrated Pest Management (IPM), Best Management Practices (BMPs), and ...
D. J. Sonke, Norman C. Leppla
doaj   +5 more sources

The Rise of Blockchain Technology in Agriculture and Food Supply Chains [PDF]

open access: yesTrends in Food Science & Technology Journal 2019, 2019
Blockchain is an emerging digital technology allowing ubiquitous financial transactions among distributed untrusted parties, without the need of intermediaries such as banks. This article examines the impact of blockchain technology in agriculture and food supply chain, presents existing ongoing projects and initiatives, and discusses overall ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal characteristics of agricultural food import shocks [PDF]

open access: yesAnnals of Operations Research, online (2024), 2023
Ensuring food supply stability is key to food security for economies, and food imports become increasingly important to safeguard food supplies in economies with inadequate food production. Food import shocks have significant impacts on targeted economies. Using import trade data of four staple crops (maize, rice, soybean, and wheat) from 1986 to 2018,
arxiv   +1 more source

Florida Dairy Farm Situation and Outlook 2003

open access: yesEDIS, 2003
This document is AN138, one of a series of the Department of Animal Sciences, Florida Cooperative Extension Service, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida. Published February 2003.
Russ Giesy   +5 more
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