Results 101 to 110 of about 270,110 (315)

Do Dairy Farming Systems Differ in Antimicrobial Use?

open access: yesAnimals, 2019
The quantitative assessment of antimicrobial use (AMU) in food-producing animals contributes to the provision of essential information for developing relevant and effective policies to reduce use and to control antimicrobial resistance.
Anna Zuliani   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Organic Fodder Production in Intensive Organic Livestock Production in Europe: Recent Scientific Findings and the Impact on the Development of Organic Farming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Organic farming is practiced in over 100 countries on more than 26 million hectares. In the European Union (EU 25), about 5.6 million hectares of farm land are certified under the EU organic farming regulation 2092/91/EEC.
Böhm, Herwart, Rahmann, Gerold
core  

Capacitive Pixelated CMOS Electronic Nose

open access: yesAdvanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
A 1024‐pixel CMOS capacitive E‐nose with inkjet‐printed MOFs and polymer layers yields gas‐specific capacitance fingerprints under humid conditions, discriminating toluene from 2‐butanone at low power. ABSTRACT Although some of the human senses can nowadays be replaced by low‐cost electronic sensors such as microphones and image sensors, a compact low ...
M. A. Basyooni‐M. Kabatas   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade‐offs and Synergies between Economic and Environmental Cocoa Farm Management Decisions

open access: yesGlobal Challenges
Optimizing sustainability among smallholder farms poses challenges due to inherent trade‐offs. In the study of organic and conventional cocoa smallholder farming in Ghana, 398 farms are assessed using the Food and Agriculture Organsation of the United ...
Joseph Bandanaa   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Where do participatory approaches meet social learning systems in the context of environmental decision making? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
About the book: Changes in market organisation, climatic conditions and societal demands on food quality, animal welfare and environmental quality have created new conditions for farming families as well as for researchers and policy makers.
Blackmore, Chris
core  

Beyond the Ban—Shedding Light on Smallholders' Price Vulnerability in Indonesia's Palm Oil Industry

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Indonesian government imposed a palm oil export ban in April 2022 to address rising cooking oil prices. This study explores oil palm smallholders' vulnerability to the policy using descriptive statistics, Lasso, and post‐Lasso OLS regressions.
Charlotte‐Elena Reich   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of energy and greenhouse gas balance as indexes for environmental assessment of wheat and maize farming: a case study

open access: yesActa Agriculturae Slovenica, 2014
In this study, the net balance of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and energy of wheat and maize production systems in two farms in Khuzestan province of Iran was assessed.
Móslem SAMI   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Did the Indian Green Revolution Change the Farm Size–Productivity Relationship?

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the relationship between farm size and productivity during India's Green Revolution, a period of rapid technological transformation. Using a unique panel of over 5000 Indian farm households that spans the Green Revolution (1971–1999), we show that the classic (linear) inverse farm size–productivity relationship gradually evolved ...
Rabail Chandio, Leah E. M. Bevis
wiley   +1 more source

Social–Ecological Memory, Agroecological Diversity and Resilience: A Comparative Analysis After a 10-Year Megadrought Affecting Mapuche and Non-Mapuche Farming Systems in Chile

open access: yesLand
Prolonged drought and rapid land-use transformation are reshaping peasant farming systems worldwide, particularly in regions exposed to extractive agribusiness expansion.
René Montalba   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Ricardian analysis of the impact of climate change on Latin American farms [PDF]

open access: yes
This study estimates the vulnerability of Latin American agriculture to climate change using a Ricardian analysis of both land values and net revenues.
Mendelsohn, Robert, Seo, Niggol
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy