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Agronomy, 2022 Mexico, as many countries, relies on its aquifers to provide at least 60% of all irrigation water to produce crops every year. Often, the water withdrawal goes beyond what the aquifer can be replenished by the little rainfall.
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Agronomy, 2020 The use of intensive high-yield agricultural systems has proved to be a feasible alternative to traditional systems as they able to meet the objective of guaranteeing long-term sustainability in the supply of food. In order to implement these systems, it
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International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 2023 Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are presented as a feasible alternative to increase water resources for agricultural use. However, the installation of these systems in farmers’ holdings is very limited.
Belén López-Felices +3 more
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Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018 Significance Over the past 10,000 years, human societies have grown vastly more complex. How and why this occurred is still debated. One major point of contention is the relationship between two characteristic features of complex societies: intensive ...
Oliver Sheehan +2 more
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Intensive Animal Agriculture and Human Health [PDF]
, 2019 This chapter provides an overview of problems factory farming raises for human health, with special emphasis on antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can arise in animals and infect people. It concludes that there are legitimate disagreements about what we should do about factory farming but that everyone should agree on two things: first, we should defer
Anomaly, Jonathan
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Root Zone Sensors for Irrigation Management in Intensive Agriculture [PDF]
Sensors, 2009 Crop irrigation uses more than 70% of the world’s water, and thus, improving irrigation efficiency is decisive to sustain the food demand from a fast-growing world population.
Jochen Hemming +9 more
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Sustainability Assessment of Six Crop Production Systems based on Emergy and Economic Analysis in Hirmand City [PDF]
بوم شناسی کشاورزی, 2021 IntroductionNatural scientists and agricultural experts are aimed to provide the right methods of ecosystem design in order to promoting the health of natural systems, optimizing input consumption, enhancing production per unit input consumption ...
somayeh mirshekari +4 more
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Evaluation of Environmental Consequences of Conventional Management for Agroecosystems in Khorasan Province [PDF]
بوم شناسی کشاورزی, 2021 Introduction[1]Ecosystem Services frameworks are emerging as an approach of capturing the wider impacts of policy decisions or evaluating land use change in order to more comprehensively take into account the range of effects on the environment, and on ...
Alireza Koocheki +2 more
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The Effect of Land Abandonment on Biological, Physical and Chemical Properties of Soils [PDF]
مجله آب و خاک, 2023 Introduction Changing land use may have a major influence on physical, chemical, and biological soil properties with a consequence for soil functioning and productivity.
M.S. Sadati +2 more
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Organic farming as the basis for the long-term health of the soil ecosystem [PDF]
Acta Agriculturae Serbica, 2021 This study compares and discusses two farming systems that differ in content - organic and conventional (intensive) systems. In this regard, a modern definition of soil content is proposed, with the "soil ecosystem" concept used as the modern alternative
Semenov Aleksandr M. +4 more
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