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Agricultural carbon sequestration, poverty, and sustainability [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores the potential impacts of payments for agricultural soil carbon sequestration on poverty of farm households and on the sustainability of agricultural systems, using economic theory combined with evidence from three case studies in ...
Antle, J.M., Stoorvogel, J.J.
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Terraced landscapes in Slovenia
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2009 Slovenia is a country of exceptionally diverse landscapes at the intersection of four major European macroregions: the Alpine, Pannonian, Dinaric, and Mediterranean regions.
Lucija Ažman Momirski, Drago Kladnik
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Some zn-1 terraces from zn power-sequences, n being an odd prime power [PDF]
, 2007 A terrace for Zm is a particular type of sequence formed from the m elements of Zm. For m odd, many procedures are available for constructing power-sequence terraces for Zm; each terrace of this sort may be partitioned into segments, of which one ...
Anderson, I., Preece, D.A.
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The Species Composition on Agricultural Terraces in NW Part of Slovakia
Ekológia (Bratislava), 2014 The article contributes to a deeper understanding of agricultural terraces in NW Slovakia. The agricultural terraces found in 12 mountain ranges were characterised in detail on 32 localities.
Machová Iva, Kubát Karel
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Use of Agricultural Terraces to Control Water Loss on Slopes Cultivated with Grains Under a No-TillAGE System [PDF]
Engenharia AgrícolaBrazilian farmers widely use the no-tillage (NT) system as a soil and water conservation practice. However, NT alone can have limitations in controlling runoff, requiring complementary practices such as agricultural terracing.
Eduardo A. A. Barbosa +4 more
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Geodetski Vestnik, 2023 Terraced landscapes are important to the cultural and environmental characteristics of many regions worldwide. Accurate and comprehensive documentation of these landscapes is challenging, especially when inventorying dry-stone walled terraced landscapes ...
Tomaž Berčič, Lucija Ažman Momirski
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Study on Ecosystem Structure and Function of Longji Terrace [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2021 Longji Terrace, one of the three ancient terraces in China, is a comprehensive tourist scenic spot with agricultural terraces as the main body and integrating natural landscape, cultural landscape and ethnic customs.
Zhu Xuelian, Xu Delan, Wang Kaijie
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Cultivated terraces in Slovenian landscapes
Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2017 Cultivated terraces distinctively mark the landscape and are a result of human adaptation to steep areas. Terraces were studied with regard to their morphometric qualities, ownership structure, and land use at eight pilot sites in various landscape types
Mateja Šmid Hribar +6 more
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Plant, Soil and Environment, 2020 Effects of land use changes on chemical soil properties were studied in a southern alpine valley of Ticino, Switzerland by analysing three different land cover-topography units: (i) natural forested slopes (NFS); (ii) deforested, cultivated terraces (DCT)
Sebastian Vogel, Marco Conedera
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Mountain rice terrace agriculture is a critical land use practice in southern China. Analyzing the vertical structure of rice terraces systems and the coupled evolution of their human-land relationship from a mountainous stereoscopic perspective is ...
Meng Yu +4 more
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