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People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract The future of land use in the UK uplands is highly debated, with growing interest in increasing tree cover and other land use changes, alongside a desire to maintain traditional land use patterns and practices. Treescape expansion is likely to result in synergies and trade‐offs between different outcomes, so integrating stakeholder preferences
Melissa Minter +6 more
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Guan'gai paishui xuebao【Objective】Excessive chemical fertilizer application in agriculture has resulted in non-point source pollution and increasing soil greenhouse gas emissions, which poses a threat to ecological security and agricultural sustainability.
ZHANG Zhenghao +7 more
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The Possibility of a Green Revolution in Sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from Kenya [PDF]
It is widely believed that a Green Revolution similar to the one achieved in Asia is impossible in Sub-Saharan Africa. Although grain yields have been stagnant in this region, there are some signs of the intensification of farming systems in the face of ...
Otsuka, Keijiro, Yamano, Takashi
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Catch Crops in Organic Farming Systems without Livestock Husbandry - Model Simulations [PDF]
, 2002 During the last years, an increasing number of stockless farms in Europe converted to organic farming practice without re-establishing a livestock. Due to the lack of animal manure as a nutrient input, the relocation and the external input of nutrients ...
Hansen, S. +5 more
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More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié +5 more
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Nitrogen leaching following cultivation of grazed grass-clover on coarse sandy soil [PDF]
, 2005 Nitrogen leaching following cultivation of grazed grass-clover on coarse sandy soil Background and objectives When grass-clover is ploughed there is a high risk of nitrogen leaching.
Eriksen, J., Hansen, E.M., Vinther, F.P.
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Influence of composition species of green manure crops on soil fertility
, 2021 A. V. Prikhod’ko +6 more
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Cultivating biodiversity: When conservation in agricultural landscapes embodies farmers' values
People and Nature, EarlyView.Abstract Efforts to conserve biodiversity in agricultural landscapes across Europe remain insufficient, as biodiversity further declines. This is sometimes ascribed to conservation policy failing to address the meanings and values that farmers attribute to the social and ecological contexts shaping their decisions influencing biodiversity.
Maria L. Kernecker +4 more
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Зерновое хозяйство России, 2018 The introduction of green manure crops is one of the important methods to compensate the losses of organic matter in the soil. During the last years the amounts of fertilizing of the organic matter and minerals significantly reduced, that increased the ...
E. V. Kravtsova
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Weed supression by smother crops and selective herbicides
Scientia Agricola, 2004 Using a smother crop is thought to suppress weed density and to add other beneficial effects in sustainable agricultural systems. Weed suppression ought to be considered an essential component of integrated weed management.
Francisco José Severino +1 more
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