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Time to Revisit Oil Palm-Livestock Integration in the Wake of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021
To date, the idea of using livestock animals as biological tools to manage weeds, sequester carbon, and boost food security in oil palm plantations has not been seriously considered by industry stakeholders of major producing countries (e.g., Indonesia ...
Badrul Azhar, Badrul Azhar, Badrul Azhar, Kamil Azmi Tohiran, Frisco Nobilly, Raja Zulkifli, Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir, Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir, Zulkifli Ishak, Norhisham Razi, Aqilah Oon, Ahmad Shahdan, Thomas M. R. Maxwell   +12 more
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2023–2027 CAP First Pillar Reform and Livestock Sector: Production and Economic Impacts on Italian Specialized Dairy Cattle Farms

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The present study uses an agroeconomic supply model to assess the impacts of 2023–2027 CAP on Italian specialized dairy cattle farms. The model considers the voluntary choice of Eco‐Scheme 1, specifically addressed to livestock farms, through the implementation of binary variables.
Davide Dell'Unto, Raffaele Cortignani
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Glyphosate Herbicide Use in Urochloa brizantha Management in Intercropping With Herbicide-Resistant Maize [PDF]

Planta Daninha, 2016
The success of the intercropping among cultivated species depends on the adoption of practices that provide, in due course, greater competitive ability of a species over another. The objective of this study was to evaluate the use of glyphosate herbicide
D.V. SILVA, M.A.M. FREITAS, M.F. SOUZA, G.P. QUEIROZ, C.A.D. MELO, A.A. SILVA, L.R. FERREIRA, M.R. REIS   +7 more
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Crop-Livestock Integration: Attack of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) on transgenic maize and Bachiaria brizantha (Poaceae)

Revista Ceres, 2023
The Crop-Livestock Integration system has sustainable potential. But pests such as the defoliating caterpillar Spodoptera frugiperda (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) can reduce the productivity of this system. The objective was to report transgenic
Paulo Henrique Baêta Nogueira de Carvalho, Wilson Faustino Júnior, Zaira Vieira Caldeira, Ricardo Siqueira da Silva, Ronnie Von dos Santos Veloso, Marcus Alvarenga Soares   +5 more
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Agropastoral herding practices and grazing behaviour of cattle in the subhumid zone of Nigeria [PDF]

, 2011
Examines the consequences for cattle husbandry of livestock-crop integration as practiced in an agropastoral production system in the sub-humid zone of Nigeria - based on a study of herding practices and cattle grazing ...
Bayer, W.
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Climate Change Agricultural Comparative Advantage and the US Trade Balance

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Current science indicates that warming and elevated atmospheric CO2 will have ambiguous results for crop productivity depending on crop type and geographic location, whereas increased heat stress makes livestock and human labor less productive.
Elizabeth A. Fraysse, Thomas W. Hertel, Roman Keeney   +2 more
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Crop-Livestock-Forestry Integration in Brazil:

Sustentabilidade em Debate, 2016
Esse artigo tem como objetivo inserir a proposta de organização da agricultura baseada nos conceitos da integração lavoura-pecuária-floresta (ILPF) no âmbito das discussões relacionadas à necessidade de transformação do modelo produtivo vigente. Utilizamos as diretrizes e os conceitos relacionados com a proposta Green Economy Initiative (GEI), que é ...
Reis, Julio, Rodrigues, Renato, Conceição, Marcela, Martins, Carolinna   +3 more
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Ideotyping integrated aquaculture systems to balance soil nutrients. [PDF]

, 2011
Due to growing land scarcity and lack of nutrient inputs, African farmers switched from shifting cultivation to continuous cropping and extended crop area by bringing fragile lands such as river banks and hill slopes into production.
Mora Vallejo, A.P., Muendo, P.N., Stoorvogel, J.J., Verdegem, M.C.J., Verreth, J.A.J.   +4 more
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes, Amanda M. Countryman, Dustin L. Pendell   +2 more
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Cost and benefit analysis of Climate-Smart Agriculture interventions in the dryland farming systems of northern Ghana

Regional Sustainability
There is a need for more focus in understanding the economic benefits of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) interventions, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where extreme climate events are significantly affecting agriculture and rural livelihoods.
Felix KPENEKUU, Philip ANTWI-AGYEI, Fred NIMOH, Andrew DOUGILL, Albert BANUNLE, Jonathan ATTA-AIDOO, Frank BAFFOUR-ATA, Thomas Peprah AGYEKUM, Godfred ADDAI, Lawrence GUODAAR   +9 more
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