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Reducing tillage does not affect the long-term profitability of organic or conventional field crop systems

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023
Reducing tillage and supporting continuous living cover (CLC) can improve agroecosystem sustainability under both organic and conventional field crop production.
Kirsten A. Pearsons   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Conservation Agriculture in Trouble? Estimating the Economic Impact of an Eventual Glyphosate Prohibition in Spain [PDF]

open access: yesPlanta Daninha, 2019
: Weed control is a crucial aspect in many conservation agriculture systems given that costs and time savings from avoiding tillage are closely linked to the use of effective and environmental friendly herbicides.
G. PARDO, Y. MARTÍNEZ
doaj   +1 more source

Economic and Environmental Assessment of Conventional versus Organic Durum Wheat Production in Southern Italy

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
Conventional and intensive agriculture systems represent an environmental challenge. This research aims at evaluating the economic and environmental implications of conventional and organic durum wheat production in Southern Italy by applying material ...
Christian Bux   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Organic and conventional sweetpotato production in the Southeastern of United States: a comparative analysis

open access: yesAgriculture & Food Security, 2021
Background There has been a piqued interest in alternative agricultural production systems that are environmentally friendly due to concerns on how sustainable it is to grow conventionally.
Sochinwechi Nwosisi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Air-, ground- and dual-source heat pumps: a comparison between energy-efficient systems for a Swedish dwelling [PDF]

open access: yesE3S 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
doaj   +1 more source

Promising Nanoparticle-Based Heat Transfer Fluids—Environmental and Techno-Economic Analysis Compared to Conventional Fluids

open access: yesInternational Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021
Providing optimal operating conditions is one of the major challenges for effective heating or cooling systems. Moreover, proper adjustment of the heat transfer fluid is also important from the viewpoint of the correct operation, maintenance, and cost ...
Natalia Czaplicka   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Using Improved DDAO Algorithm to Solve Economic Emission Load Dispatch Problem in the Presence of Wind Farms [PDF]

open access: yesInternational 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
doaj   +1 more source

Energetic and Economic Analyses for Agricultural Management Models: The Calabria PGI Clementine Case Study

open access: yesEnergies, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Significance and value of non-traded ecosystem services on farmland [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ, 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
doaj   +2 more sources

Alternative systems aim to reduce inputs, maintain profits

open access: yesCalifornia 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
doaj   +3 more sources

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