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Farmers doing it for themselves: how farmer-inventors are frustrated by their interactions with the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System [PDF]
, 2018 Notwithstanding recent policy commitments to formally involve farmers in innovation through initiatives such as the European Innovation Partnership (EIP-AGRI), the traditional perspective of the policy and academic literature in Europe has been that ...
High, Chris +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Guided by the golden ratio, a class of aperiodic architected metamaterials is introduced to address the intrinsic trade‐off between strength and toughness. By unifying local geometric heterogeneity with global order, the golden‐ratio‐guided aperiodic architecture promotes spatial delocalization of damage tolerence regions, leading to more tortuous ...
Junjie Deng +9 more
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Soil Health Indicators and Sustainable Practices on Indy Urban Farms: An Investigation of Ecosystem Functionality [PDF]
, 2019 Urban agriculture is capable of restoring ecosystem services like food production, recreation, and clean soil and water to cities. Urban farms in particular can help relieve pressure for areas with limited food access, also known as food desserts.
Lewis, Rebecca
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Digital Divide in Smart Farming
, 2020 While the world population is increasing, the production of food needs to match this growing demand. Also, climate change brings more challenges for this sector. Therefore, improvement of productivity within agriculture is essential, preferably with the use of technical functions.
Willems, Tara +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This review highlights how machine learning (ML) algorithms are employed to enhance sensor performance, focusing on gas and physical sensors such as haptic and strain devices. By addressing current bottlenecks and enabling simultaneous improvement of multiple metrics, these approaches pave the way toward next‐generation, real‐world sensor applications.
Kichul Lee +17 more
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DataFuture agriculture will depend on smart systems and digital technologies to improve food production and sustainability. Data-driven methods, such as artificial intelligence, will become integral to agricultural research and development, transforming how ...
Aakansha Chadha +2 more
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The Significance and Ethics of Digital Livestock Farming
AgriEngineering, 2023 The emergence of precision and digital livestock farming presents an opportunity for sustainable animal farming practices that enhance animal welfare and health. However, this transformation of modern animal farming through digital technology has several
Suresh Neethirajan
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Urban food strategies in Central and Eastern Europe: what's specific and what's at stake? [PDF]
, 2013 Integrating a larger set of instruments into Rural Development Programmes implied an increasing focus on monitoring and evaluation. Against the highly diversified experience with regard to implementation of policy instruments the Common Monitoring ...
Balázs, Bálint +2 more
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Identification of Critical Source Areas (CSAs) and Evaluation of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in Controlling Eutrophication in the Dez River Basin [PDF]
, 2019 Best Management Practices (BMPs) are commonly used to control pollution in the river basins. Prioritization of BMPs helps improve the efficiency and effectiveness of pollution reduction, especially in Critical Source Areas (CSAs) that produce the highest
Ahmad, Sajjad +3 more
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DIGITALIZATION IN FARM MANAGEMENT
Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2022 The paper analyzes the influence of digitalization on managerial activity in agriculture and highlights how the use of farm management software has an impact on overall economic efficiency. Romania is at the level of the European Union the country with the largest number of agricultural holdings. Farm management is one of the factors of production that
Ștefan VIZITEU +4 more
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