Agronomic and economic performance of organic, conventional and GM-cotton in Central India - First results of a long-term farming systems comparison [PDF]
, 2008 Over the past five years the organic cotton production in India has grown many folds. In the conventional cotton arena, the genetically modified cotton is growing at an unprecedented rate.
Baruah, Rajeev +2 more
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Why Are Complementary Currency Systems Difficult to Grasp within Conventional Economics? [PDF]
Interventions économiques, 2018 Les monnaies complémentaires (MC) permettent de comptabiliser et de régler des échanges de biens et de services dans un espace local et circulent en complémentarité de la monnaie officielle. Malgré leur actualité et leur nombre, la grande majorité des économistes semblent accorder une attention marginale à ces monnaies complémentaires.
Fare, Marie, Ould Ahmed, Pepita
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Environmental, Energetic, and Economic Comparisons of Organic and Conventional Farming Systems [PDF]
BioScience, 2005 Abstract Various organic technologies have been utilized for about 6000 years to make agriculture sustainable while conserving soil, water, energy, and biological resources. Among the benefits of organic technologies are higher soil organic matter and nitrogen, lower fossil energy inputs, yields similar to those of conventional systems, and ...
Pimentel, David +4 more
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Air-, ground- and dual-source heat pumps: a comparison between energy-efficient systems for a Swedish dwelling [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2022 Air-source heat pumps (ASHPs) and ground-source heat pumps (GSHPs) are the most spread heat pumps nowadays. However, they suffer from drawbacks that could be mostly overcome coupling the two heat sources, i.e., using dual-source heat pumps (DSHPs).
Fascì Maria Letizia
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Energies, 2020 Farming systems need to be planned to provide suitable levels of economic profitability and, at the same time, ensure an effective energy use, in order to perform environmentally friendly production strategies.
Giacomo Falcone +8 more
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Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland [PDF]
PeerJ, 2015 Background. Ecosystem services (ES) generated within agricultural landscapes, including field boundaries, are vital for the sustainable supply of food and fibre.
Harpinder Sandhu +5 more
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Alternative systems aim to reduce inputs, maintain profits
California Agriculture, 1994 The economic component of the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) project at UC Davis compared the financial performance of low-input and organic farming systems to conventional systems.
Karen Klonsky, Peter Livingston
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Using Improved DDAO Algorithm to Solve Economic Emission Load Dispatch Problem in the Presence of Wind Farms [PDF]
International Journal of Industrial Electronics, Control and Optimization, 2023 In power systems planning, economic load dispatch considering the uncertainty of renewable energy sources is one of the most important challenges that researchers have been concerned about.
Mehdi Shafiee +2 more
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Animal, 2023 In the development and implementation of housing systems for pigs, there has been a significant focus on pig welfare including loose housing of lactating sows either indoors or outdoors.
V.A. Moustsen, Y.M. Seddon, M.J. Hansen
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Comparative Study on the Economic Efficiency of Rapeseed Culture in Conventional and Organic Systems
Bulletin of University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj-Napoca: Horticulture, 2018 From an economic point of view, efficiency implies the use of resources, of any kind, at maximum efficiency, or else the relation between effect and effort is over unit. In any kind of activity economic efficiency is the basis for its start.
Elena ȘURCĂ
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