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The Hidden Costs of Coffee Production in the Eastern African Value Chains

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is increasing recognition that significant hidden costs associated with agrifood systems are not reflected in market prices. Coffee is among the three most traded agricultural commodities in the world and supports the livelihoods of more than 30 million smallholder households.
Annet Adong, Lukas Kornher, Bezawit Beyene Chichaibelu, Aslihan Arslan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fertilizer Sustainability: A Conceptual Framework for Assessing Equitable and Sustainable Soil Inputs

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Modern industrial agriculture is predicated largely on the production and utilization of chemical fertilizers. Although this approach has played an integral role in increasing food security in many parts of the world, the long‐term sustainability of this resource‐intensive approach is questionable.
Benjamin Wilde, Roman Hüppi, Gina Garland, Rafaela Feola Konz, Kenza Benabderrazik, William Thompson, Martin Hartmann, Bernard Vanlauwe, Kokou Kintche, Leonhard Späth, Matieyedou Konlambigue, Johanna Jacobi, Johan Six   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intercropping with hyperaccumulator plants decreases the cadmium accumulation in grape seedlings

Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica. Section B, Soil and Plant Science, 2019
In this experiment, four cadmium (Cd) hyperaccumulator species (Crassocephalum crepidioides, Galinsoga parviflora, Sigesbeckia orientalis, and Solanum nigrum) were intercropped with grape (Vitis vinifera) cuttings together in Cd-containated soil to study
Rongping Hu, Zijing Zhang, Lijin Lin, Ming’an Liao, Yi Tang, Dong Liang, Hui Xia, Jin Wang, Xun Wang, Xiulan Lv, Wei Ren   +10 more
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AGRICULTURE IN A SOCIALIST CITY: Towards an Alter‐Urban Political Ecology

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban political ecology has developed as a critique of capitalist urbanization. This article develops the concept of alter‐urban political ecology to define urban environments emerging not from capitalist urbanization but from efforts to transform it. Drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in five urban farms in socialist Cuba,
Gustav Cederlöf
wiley   +1 more source

Information flow and the adoption of soil‐improving and water conservation measures, and household welfare: Insights from a randomized controlled trial in Uganda

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, Awudu Abdulai, Enoch M. Kikulwe, Elisabetta Gotor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emergy-based evaluation of production efficiency and sustainability of diversified multi-cropping systems in the Yangtze River Basin

Frontiers in Plant Science
Excessive agricultural investment brought about by increased multiple-cropping index may compromise environmental sustainability. There are few studies on the sustainability of diversified multi-cropping systems in the Yangtze River Basin (YRB ...
Xinhui Lei, Xinhui Lei, Bing Liang, Bing Liang, Liang Feng, Liang Feng, Xuyang Zhao, Xuyang Zhao, Tian Pu, Tian Pu, Changbing Yu, Shubin Wang, Yafeng Wei, Shumei Ma, Xiaochun Wang, Xiaochun Wang, Wenyu Yang, Wenyu Yang   +17 more
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The Construction of an Environmental Villain: A Discourse Analysis of Upland Maize Farming in Thailand

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐2010s, Thai public discourse has villainised upland maize cultivation in northern Thailand for deforestation and environmental degradation through the popular imagery of bald mountains. The attention has prompted a new wave of land‐use interventions urging upland smallholders to replace maize with trees and perennials.
Pin Pravalprukskul, Cecilie Friis, Thilde Bech Bruun   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A global assessment of animal community responses to agricultural management

Conservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Transitions in agricultural management through crop and noncrop diversification on intensively managed croplands or pastures have benefited biodiversity. However, the extent to which agricultural management benefits species communities present in undisturbed ecosystems remains largely unclear.
Susana López Rodríguez, Hanneke van ‘t Veen, Solen Le Clec'h, Rob Alkemade   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of Maize/Peanut Intercropping on Yield and Nitrogen Uptake and Utilization under Different Nitrogen Application Rates

Agriculture
The effects of maize/peanut intercropping on crop yields, peanut nodulation, biological nitrogen (N) fixation in peanuts, crop N uptake, and N use efficiency under different N application rates were studied.
Yongyong Zhang, Fengyan Zhao, Zhanxiang Sun, Wei Bai, Zhe Zhang, Chen Feng, Qian Cai   +6 more
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Evaluation of Yield and Advantage Indices in Barley and Vetch Intercropping [PDF]

Journal of Agricultural Science and Sustainable Production, 2009
To investigate the effects of different intercropping arrangements on barley and vetch forage yield and to find the land use advantage in the intercropping system, an experiment was carried out based on randomized complete block design with eight ...
A Ahmadi, A Dabbagh Mohammdi Nasab, S Zehtab Salmasi, R Amini, H Janmohammadi   +4 more
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