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The Role of Agriculture in Ensuring Food Security in Developing Countries: Considerations in the Context of the Problem of Sustainable Food Production

open access: yes, 2020
Ensuring food security has become an issue of key importance to countries with different degrees of economic development, while the agricultural sector plays a strategic role in improving food availability.
K. Pawlak, M. Kołodziejczak
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Benefits of Organic Agriculture as a Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Strategy in Developing Countries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Organic agriculture, as an adaptation strategy to climate change and variability, is a concrete and promising option for rural communities and has additional potential as a mitigation strategy. This article is a short review of this topic.
Müller, Adrian
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Permanent Agriculture: Precursor to Organic Farming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The concept of Permanent Agriculture predates Organic Agriculture by thirty years. Following a clash with the USDA over the theory of soil fertility, American soil scientist Franklin King wrote "Farmers of Forty Centuries or Permanent Agriculture in ...
Paull, John
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Changing Agriculture in a Changing Climate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Changes in weather patterns are going to affect agriculture with impacts differing according to region. The developing countries can reckon with the first effects. The authors look at the role that organic agriculture can play in adaptation.
Gattinger, Andreas   +2 more
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Rural Poverty and Agricultural Development in Tamil Nadu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Tamil Nadu is basically an agricultural economy. Agriculture is the backbone of the development of the Tamil Nadu economy. The role of agriculture in shaping the economy could be reflected from the large proportion of population that depends on ...
Dhas, Albert Christopher
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Internet-of-Things (IoT)-Based Smart Agriculture: Toward Making the Fields Talk

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
Despite the perception people may have regarding the agricultural process, the reality is that today’s agriculture industry is data-centered, precise, and smarter than ever.
M. Ayaz   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

What is the impact of COVID-19 disease on agriculture?

open access: yes, 2020
The different pandemics that humanity has experienced, such as the Spanish Flu, Asian Flu, Hong Kong Flu, HIV/AIDS, SARS, Ebola and Swine Flu, have had a great impact on the economy, the environment and any human activity, such as livestock, agriculture,
R. Siche
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Setting the Table for Urban Agriculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This article provides context for the various roles that law plays in the cultivation of urban agriculture. This article first reflects on how popular support for the development of a legal framework that promotes urban agriculture is rooted deeply in ...
Pollans, Margot J.
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A Review on UAV-Based Applications for Precision Agriculture

open access: yesInf., 2019
Emerging technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT) can provide significant potential in Smart Farming and Precision Agriculture applications, enabling the acquisition of real-time environmental data. IoT devices such as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
Dimosthenis C. Tsouros   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Rethinking Oregon Agriculture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Darla (Goodnoe) Baggenstos ’90 is no stranger to farming. She grew up raising cattle, pigs and chickens in Tigard. After graduating from Linfield, she married Jim Baggenstos, a third-generation farmer at Baggenstos Farm just down the road from her family’
Feuerstein, Christian
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