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Integrating Agricultural Science and Community Knowledge through Service-Learning to Enhance Food Security: A Participatory Lens [PDF]

Journal of Education and Learning Technology
Food security is a growing concern on the African continent. Creative ways are required to maximise the quantity and quality of food production in society to meet the needs of the community and learners that form part of the increasing population. As an
Glen Legodu, Benjamin Seleke
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Competing Claims on Natural Resources: What Role for Science?

Ecology and Society, 2008
Competing claims on natural resources become increasingly acute, with the poor being most vulnerable to adverse outcomes of such competition. A major challenge for science and policy is to progress from facilitating univocal use to guiding stakeholders ...
Ken E. Giller, Cees Leeuwis, Jens A. Andersson, Wim Andriesse, Arie Brouwer, Peter Frost, Paul Hebinck, Ignas Heitkönig, Martin K. van Ittersum, Niek Koning, Ruerd Ruben, Maja Slingerland, Henk Udo, Tom Veldkamp, Claudius van de Vijver, Mark T. van Wijk, Pieter Windmeijer   +16 more
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The soil microbiome: An essential, but neglected, component of regenerative agroecosystems

iScience, 2023
Summary: Regenerative agriculture (RA) is gaining traction globally as an approach for meeting growing food demands while avoiding, or even remediating, the detrimental environmental consequences associated with conventional farming. Momentum is building
Syrie M. Hermans, Gavin Lear, Bradley S. Case, Hannah L. Buckley   +3 more
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Coupling of crop and livestock production can reduce the agricultural GHG emission from smallholder farms

iScience, 2023
Summary: Ensuring global food security and environmental sustainability is dependent upon the contribution of the world’s hundred million smallholder farms, but the contributions of smallholder farms to global agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...
Xiangbo Xu, Yan Xu, Jing Li, Yonglong Lu, Alan Jenkins, Robert C. Ferrier, Hong Li, Nils Chr Stenseth, Dag O. Hessen, Linxiu Zhang, Chang Li, Baojing Gu, Shuqin Jin, Mingxing Sun, Zhu Ouyang, Erik Mathijs   +15 more
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The Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science [PDF]

Science, 1896
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YOLOv8n-WSE-Pest: A Lightweight Deep Learning Model Based on YOLOv8n for Pest Identification in Tea Gardens

Applied Sciences
China’s Yunnan Province, known for its tea plantations, faces significant challenges in smart pest management due to its ecologically intricate environment.
Hongxu Li, Wenxia Yuan, Yuxin Xia, Zejun Wang, Junjie He, Qiaomei Wang, Shihao Zhang, Limei Li, Fang Yang, Baijuan Wang   +9 more
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Achieving sustainable goals in agroecosystems through the optimization of agricultural resources integrating the water-nitrogen-carbon nexus

iScience
Summary: This study investigates the synergistic utilization of straw, water, and nitrogen resources in agricultural ecosystems to optimize sustainable management practices.
Mo Li, Pingan Zhang, Aizheng Yang, Xiaofang Wang, Yan Sha, Qiang Fu   +5 more
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Moss-dominated biocrust-based biodiversity enhances carbon sequestration via water interception and plant-soil-microbe interactions

iScience, 2023
Summary: We investigated a nature-based solution (NbS) via incorporating biocrust into alfalfa-maize intercropping system to test carbon sequestration in seriously eroded agricultural soils.
Wei Wang, Meng-Ying Li, Rui Zhou, Fei Mo, Bao-Zhong Wang, Li Zhu, Hong-Yan Tao, Ying Zhu, Wen-Li Wang, Ze-Ying Zhao, You-Cai Xiong   +10 more
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DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE ON THE PLATFORM OF INNOVATIVE BIOECONOMY

Фінансово-кредитна діяльність: проблеми теорії та практики
Ukraine's economy is in a state of crisis caused by the war. The agricultural sector in extreme conditions is trying to fulfill its function of ensuring the food security of the state, supporting its export potential despite limited resources and ...
Olga Vytvytska , Sergiy Volodin, Mykola Talavyria, Victor Tesliuk, Kateryna Doroshkevych, Dmitro Aleksandrov   +5 more
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An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia

Environmental Research Letters, 2019
Wheat rust diseases pose one of the greatest threats to global food security, including subsistence farmers in Ethiopia. The fungal spores transmitting wheat rust are dispersed by wind and can remain infectious after dispersal over long distances.
Clare Allen-Sader, William Thurston, Marcel Meyer, Elias Nure, Netsanet Bacha, Yoseph Alemayehu, Richard O J H Stutt, Daniel Safka, Andrew P Craig, Eshetu Derso, Laura E Burgin, Sarah C Millington, Matthew C Hort, David P Hodson, Christopher A Gilligan   +14 more
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