Agronomy for sustainable agriculture. A review [PDF]
Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 2009 Sustainability rests on the principle that we must meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Starving people in poor nations, obesity in rich nations, increasing food prices, on-going climate changes, increasing fuel and transportation costs, flaws of the global market, worldwide ...
Lichtfouse, Eric +5 more
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Agronomy, sustainability and good agricultural practices [PDF]
Oléagineux, Corps gras, Lipides, 2005 Sustainable palm oil production needs to be based on the application of a code of good practices, respecting a certain number of criteria related to economic, environmental and social aspects. We focus here on economic and environmental aspects, attempting to take stock of the current situation regarding the management of inputs (fertilizers ...
Caliman, Jean-Pierre +3 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 +1 more
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Improved feeding and forages at a crossroads: Farming systems approaches for sustainable livestock development in East Africa [PDF]
, 2020 Dairy development provides substantial potential economic opportunities for smallholder farmers in East Africa, but productivity is constrained by the scarcity of quantity and quality feed.
Groot, Jeroen C.J. +5 more
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Spatial and temporal stability of weed patches in cereal fields under direct drilling and harrow tillage [PDF]
, 2020 The adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) techniques by farmers is changing the dynamics of weed communities in cereal fields and so potentially their spatial distribution.
Baraibar Padró, Bàrbara +6 more
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Landscape agronomy: a new field for addressing agricultural landscape dynamics [PDF]
Landscape Ecology, 2012 Landscape dynamics increasingly challenge agronomists to explain how and why agricultural landscapes are designed and managed by farmers. Nevertheless, agronomy is rarely included in the wide range of disciplines involved in landscape research. In this paper, we describe how landscape agronomy can help explain the relationship between farming systems ...
Benoît, Marc +8 more
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A Novel Biostimulant, Belonging to Protein Hydrolysates, Mitigates Abiotic Stress Effects on Maize Seedlings Grown in Hydroponics [PDF]
, 2019 The main challenge to agriculture worldwide is feeding a rapidly growing human population, developing more sustainable agricultural practices that do not threaten human and ecosystem health. An innovative solution relies on the use of biostimulants, as a
Manoli, Alessandro +2 more
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Agriculture, Agronomy, and Political Economy: Some Missing Links [PDF]
History of Political Economy, 2002 The founding years of political economy coincided with the birth and the goldenage of modernagronomy. Inthe century that separated Jethro Tull from Justus Liebig and Jean-Baptiste Boussingault—after whom agronomy became applied chemistry—political economy underwent fundamental changes, for this was also the period that separated ...
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The state of sustainable agriculture and agroecology research and impacts: A survey of U.S. scientists [PDF]
, 2020 A growing body of research suggests that although sustainable agriculture, particularly agroecology, can address challenges such as those related to climate change, ecosystem services, food insecurity, and farmer livelihoods, the transition to such ...
Basche, Andrea D. +3 more
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, 2010 Agronomy: barley, biomass, fertilizer, and sunflowers -- Horticulture: Controlled Environment Agriculture Laboratory, Georgeson Botanical Garden -- Animal Husbandry: Reindeer Research Program -- Student research ...
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