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AbstractBillions of animals live and die under deplorable conditions in factory farms. Despite significant efforts to reduce human consumption of animal products and to encourage more humane farming practices, the number of factory-farmed animals is nevertheless on an upward trajectory.
Moen, OM, Devolder, K
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A collaborative approach to COVID-19 response
The Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS) has spent the past two decades developing local food systems to support communities and increase resilience.
Shorlette Ammons +17 more
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Adaptive Vertical Farm for space farming
This work concerns a new concept of vertical farms that can be installed in orbital stations and future lunar settlements in order to produce fresh food for astronauts. The main novelty of this kind of greenhouse lies in the possibility of continuously adapting the volume assigned to each crop to the level of plant growth by automatically moving the ...
Patrizia Bagnerini +3 more
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Influence of fertilizers on harvest yield, uptake of nutrients, and "raw" protein content in winter rye grains of Vologda region [PDF]
Based on results of the research done during 2017–2019 on the sod-podzolic medium loamy soil of the Vologda region, when applying the estimated doses of fertilizers N90P40K100-120 we can achieve 67–79% increased yields of winter rye grains compared to ...
Chukhina Olga +2 more
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Consumer push towards open and free-range production systems makes biosecurity on farms challenging, leading to increased disease and animal welfare issues.
Yadav S. Bajagai +9 more
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Pearl millet crop, reputed as one of the most important food sources cultivated in arid and semiarid parts of Africa and Asia, is known to be a source of many bioactive molecules with potential health-promoting properties. In Tunisia, this crop presented
Tebra Triki +9 more
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Popularly, the application of biodegradable polymer film can resolve polyethylene (PE) film residual “white pollution” but it is unclear when the degradable film begins to degrade in different regions.
Yang Ning +5 more
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Eustress in Space: Opportunities for Plant Stressors Beyond the Earth Ecosystem
Human space exploration cannot occur without reliable provision of nutritious and palatable food to sustain physical and mental well-being. This ultimately will depend upon efficient production of food in space, with on-site manufacturing on space ...
Volker Hessel +16 more
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Background: Energy metabolism speeds up during pregnancy that requires pregnant women to have extra amount of nutritions. Provision of education on nutrition during pregnancy is an effort to prevent and tackle malnutrition.
Kartini Kartini +5 more
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Background: Prenatal care is one way to prevent complications of pregnancy, and educational approach is the best approach to improve the knowledge of mothers about prenatal care.
Kartini Kartini +5 more
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