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Decoupling of alpine wetland degradation and regional development
Ecological IndicatorsWetland is the core functional system of the global alpine region. However, with the development of the social economy in the past few decades, the alpine wetland ecosystem has suffered serious shrinkage, drying, degradation and landscape fragmentation ...
Jianxin Jiao +5 more
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EuroChoices, EarlyView.Summary Analysis of recent Eurostat data shows a progressive decline in EU cereal production. While cultivated acreage has contracted steadily since 2013, the most severe output reduction occurred during 2022–2024, driving a surge in import volumes. This is mirrored in Italy, exposing systemic vulnerabilities within high‐value agri‐food supply chains ...
Emanuele Spada +4 more
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Improved crop–livestock systems in West Africa: Making a difference. CGIAR Systemwide Livestock Programme, Project Brochure [PDF]
, 2010 An integrated approach to improving crop–livestock systems in West Africa, combining research on livestock, crops and natural resource management and involving a diverse range of stakeholders, including farmers, has a potential to address emerging ...
International Livestock Research Institute
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Integrative Zoology, EarlyView.We study that browsing by wapiti reduces the growth of saplings, and it develop chemical defenses to prevent themselves browsed again. These results reduce our concern about wapiti browse T. cuspidate saplings, and provide basic data for the study of the interaction between them, and also provide theoretical basis for the population restoration and ...
Jianan Feng +3 more
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Pollution and Environmental Issues in Agriculture and the Livestock Industry: A Brief Review of the Japanese Case [PDF]
This paper presents an overview of the current conditions of livestock-related environmental problems in Japan. The former Basic Agriculture Act, which was effective between 1961 and 1999, promoted single cropping, the use of chemicals in agricultural ...
Kawata, Yukichika
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Extension services are designed to facilitate the flow of information from researchers to farmers. However, information failures continue to impede the diffusion of soil‐improving and water conservation technologies in Sub‐Saharan African countries. We use a randomized controlled trial (RCT) to examine the impact of an extension‐based campaign
Esther Gloria Mbabazi +3 more
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, 2009 This film shows how livestock can help poor farmers in rural Malawi escape poverty. It also documents the work of ILRI, the International Livestock Research Institute, including its new projects and collaborations in the country.
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Agroecology and Transformative Adaptation to Climate Change
Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines transformative adaptation to climate change through the EFICAS Project (Eco‐Friendly Intensification and Climate‐resilient Agricultural Systems) implemented across 12 upland communities in northern Laos from 2014 to 2020.
Jean‐Christophe Castella
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Africa's threatened livestock breeds
, 2012 Resilient, disease-resistant,'ancient' cattle are among the African breeds at risk of extinction as imported animals supplant valuable native livestock on the continent.
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Conservation Biology, EarlyView.Abstract In multiuse areas outside formal protection, sustaining both wildlife and people is critical to wildlife conservation and coexistence efforts. Botswana's Kalahari hosts one of sub‐Saharan Africa’s largest unprotected areas supporting free‐ranging wildlife.
Marie‐Charlotte Gielen +7 more
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