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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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Analysis of information use in agricultural science PhD theses at Central University of Venezuela [PDF]

, 2008
Purpose – To analyze information use in agricultural science PhD theses submitted between 1986 and 2002 in the Faculty of Agronomy, Central University of Venezuela (UCV).
Haparro-Martinez, Exio Isaac, Marzal García-Quismondo, Miguel Ángel   +1 more
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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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Tweet tweet tick: a quantitative content analysis of risk communication about ticks on Twitter

Frontiers in Communication
IntroductionThis study determined what information presented on Twitter (X) on tickborne diseases and their prevention and investigated the relationships between content information and engagement rate.
Cheng-Xian Yang, Lauri M. Baker, Lauri M. Baker, Ashley McLeod-Morin   +3 more
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Influence of soil characteristics and leaching rate on copper migration: column test

Heliyon, 2020
Soil copper (Cu) supply is used to correct Cu deficiency in many crops grown in southern Mediterranean areas. Oversupply of this fertilizer may contaminate soil and groundwater.
Fouad Amlal, Saad Drissi, Kacem Makroum, Khalid Dhassi, Hamid Er-rezza, Abdelhadi Aït Houssa   +5 more
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Research on the effect of agricultural science and technology service supply from the perspective of farmers' differentiation

Innovation and Green Development, 2023
Comparing the priority order of different agricultural science and technology services adopted by cotton farmers and exploring the influencing factors of agricultural science and technology service adoption by cotton farmers from the perspective of ...
Xianmei Li, Guoxin Yu, Liping Wen, Guoyong Liu   +3 more
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