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Understanding Interactions Between Sustainable Development Goals Within and Between Policy Programmes: The Case of Kenya's Dairy Sector

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Achieving Agenda 2030 depends on addressing interactions between the sustainable development goals (SDGs). In this paper, we conceptualize SDG interactions as synergies or trade‐offs, incoming or outgoing, and internal or external, and analyze how SDG 2 (Zero Hunger) interacts with other SDGs within and across policy programmes that support ...
Annita Jepchirchir Kirwa   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nitrate leaching from arable crop rotations in organic farming [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Nitrate leaching from crop rotations for organic grain production were investigated in a field experiment on different soil types in Denmark from 1997 to 2002.
Askegaard, Margrethe   +2 more
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Can Environmental Markets Pay for More Sustainable Farm Dams? A Cost–Benefit Analysis

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farm dams are widespread artificial waterbodies that play a critical role in agricultural water security. Enhancing these systems through sustainable interventions such as fencing, hardened access points, and revegetation can improve water quality and deliver carbon and biodiversity co‐benefits.
K. U. D. N. Hansani   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

GROWTH AND YIELD OF SORGHUM AS INFLUENCED BY GREEN MANURE AND SOIL ORGANIC MATTER CONTENT

open access: yesAnnals of Tropical Research, 1980
Green manure increased the organic matter content of the soil. Soybeans, as green manure, provided the highest organic matter content (3.796%), followed by mungbean (3.268%) and bushbean (2.836%).
RB Capuno, BE Fabre, RG Escalada
doaj  

Organic Farming Technologies and Practices Followed by the Farmers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The study mainly focused on organic farming technologies and practices followed by the farmers for coconut, millets, sugarcane and turmeric. The study was conducted in Coimbatore, Erode and Dharampuri districts of Tamil Nadu.
Elavarasi, M., Ponnusamy, K.A.
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Farmers’ Preferences for Sustainable Crop Protection: An Integrated Choice and Latent Variable Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study analyzes farmers' preferences for sustainable crop protection, focusing on Integrated Pest Management (IPM) practices by incorporating social‐psychological factors to capture economic and behavioral dimensions. Using data from German and Polish potato farmers, we apply an integrated choice and latent variable framework that combines
Philip K. Miriti   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green manuring improves soil quality, grain yield, and grain anthocyanin content in colored rice cultivated in tropical regions

open access: yesFood and Energy Security
Green manuring is the process by which vegetative crops are incorporated into the soil, and it plays a good substitutable role in reducing chemical fertilizer applications while enhancing soil fertility. Field experiments were conducted at Lingao City of
Shaokun Song   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Systemic Governance From Below: Story Telling to Empower Access to the Commons Through Mapping and Modelling: A Mixed Methods Approach

open access: yesSystems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Access to forests, farming land and the Citarum river is limited in Tarumajaya; furthermore, many do not own their own housing and are dependent on the public and private landowners in the area. The region of Tarumajaya faces significant challenges in access to crucial resources such as forests, farming land and the Citarum river, leading to a
Rudolf Wirawan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

What Matters to Us?: Contemplating a Holistic Indigenous Identity Framework Through Four Framing Questions

open access: yesNew Directions for Student Services, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article introduces a conceptual framework for Indigenous college student identity development, addressing the limitations of mainstream student development theories rooted in Western, Eurocentric worldviews. Drawing on Tribal Critical Race Theory and relationality, we propose four guiding questions—Where are we? Who are we?
Symphony Oxendine, Stephanie J. Waterman
wiley   +1 more source

Vegetation type mediates how urbanization reshapes the structure, function, and spatial variation of soil food webs

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Urbanization represents one of the major anthropogenic alterations of the Earth's surface, with significant impacts on biodiversity and its functions. Soil animals are essential components of biodiversity, and their trophic interactions play integral roles in the ...
Haifeng Yao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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