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Agriculture and Agricultural Systems
2016Crop Ecology deals with agricultural ecosystems that are manipulated by man to funnel the maximum energy into usable products (food and raw materials). Agricultural ecosystems show normally low biodiversity, low autonomy and a short trophic chain. The main features of farming systems are productivity, stability, resilience, and sustainability, the ...
Elias Fereres, Francisco J. Villalobos
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From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2020The three previous industrial revolutions profoundly transformed agriculture industry from indigenous farming to mechanized farming and recent precision agriculture.
Ye Liu +4 more
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Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline
, 2009There is mounting evidence of pollinator decline all over the world and consequences in many agricultural areas could be significant. We assessed these consequences by measuring 1) the contribution of insect pollination to the world agricultural output ...
N. Gallai +3 more
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Agriculture and Agricultural Biotechnology
2009Abstract This article explores a number of issues in agriculture and agricultural biotechnology putting a special emphasis within the philosophy of biology which is a fruitful area of study. The ecological impact of agriculture and the potential for humans to make novel contributions to genetic diversity raises questions about ...
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Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable agriculture
Trends in Biotechnology, 2002Agricultural biotechnologies are anchored to a scientific paradigm rooted in experimental biology, whereas sustainable agriculture rests on a biological paradigm that is best described as ecological. Both biotechnology and sustainable agriculture are associated with particular social science paradigms: biotechnology has its foundation in neoclassical ...
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Desintensified agriculture, peasant agriculture or sustainable agriculture ?
2003L'objectif de l'article est de contribuer à répondre à la question : "qu'est-ce que la désintensification ?" qui a constitué le thème d'un séminaire organisé en novembre 2002 entre l'INRA et la Confédération paysanne. Cette question invite les économistes à mieux définir ce qu'est l'"intensif", en ne se limitant pas à la quantité de consommations ...
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
International Organization, 1947H. Belshaw
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Food, Agriculture and Agricultural Engineering
1978Most of the population of the developing world lives in the rural areas and is engaged in agriculture or agriculture-related activities. Essentially, agriculture is concerned with the collection of solar energy and its use in synthesising a few simple inorganic materials—principally water, carbon dioxide from the air and nitrogen—into organic vegetable
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A Survey on Smart Agriculture: Development Modes, Technologies, and Security and Privacy Challenges
IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, 2021Xing Yang +2 more
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