Characterization and diversity of the market-gardening production systems and their interactions with urban and peri-urban environment in Southern-Benin, West Africa [PDF]
, 2013 The market-gardening production plays an important role in contribution to food availability. However this activity is limited by constraints and also generates harmful effects on health and environment. Thus to ensure the sustainability of this activity
Ahouangninou, Claude +10 more
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Increasing the contribution of personal gardening to providing food security
Вестник университета, 2022 The article discusses the functional role of personal gardening in ensuring food security in the context of economic sanctions, the historical roots of this institution, and its future.
R. F. Gataullin, E. R. Chuvashaeva
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Pesticide contamination of water used for urban market gardening in Bamako (Mali)
Current Research in Environmental Sustainability, 2022 The use of natural and synthetic pesticides is increasingly common in developing countries, particularly in pest control efforts to improve crop yields. Misuse of these plant protection products can lead to a loss of efficacy on crops and the development
Marjorie Le Bars +3 more
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The economic performance of urban gardening in three European cities – examples from Ljubljana, Milan and London [PDF]
, 2018 Urban gardening is not a new phenomenon but it has received considerably more practical and academic interest in recent years. Studies on economic aspects such as crop yields, inputs and outputs of production, productivity, gross margins and the ...
Corsi, Stefano +8 more
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Effectiveness of Retail Promotions in the Green Industry by Age Group: A Case Study
EDIS, 2020 In the horticulture industry, age has frequently been used to divide and quantify gardeners (National Gardening Association, 2013). For instance, consumers over the age of 55 account for the majority of U.S.
Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn
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Culture maraîchère, moyen de subsistance des pasteurs transhumants fixés à l’Ouest du lac Fitri [PDF]
Revue Hybrides, 2023 Located in the Batha province in central Chad, Lake Fitri has remained for several decades an area of transhumance of pastoralists. Agriculture is the main activity of the natives of this lake who are the Bilala.
PAULIN GOTILO +2 more
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Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2023 Three archaeological interventions carried out in 2000 in the commune of Ungersheim have revealed several sections of a Roman road with two distinct activity zones on one side. Far from any habitation, one section is occupied by a tile factory (this will
Madeleine Châtelet +3 more
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Development of organic fertilizers from food market waste and urban gardening by composting in Ecuador [PDF]
, 2017 Currently, the management of urban waste streams in developing countries is not optimized yet, and in many cases these wastes are disposed untreated in open dumps.
Bustamante, M. Ángeles +3 more
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VertigO, 2010 The cities of developing countries are in complete mutation. This mutation is characterized by an increase of their population and urbanization. These two factors submit them to two major challenges.
Guy Nouatin, François-Xavier Bachabi
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Une agriculture de proximité est-elle possible en Argentine ?
Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2002 This paper is analysing the possibilities of raising and development of an agriculture of proximity in Argentina, a country that is submitted to a strong neoliberal plan. Since 1975, market gardening outside the city of Bahía Blanca was based upon a high
Christophe Albaladejo +2 more
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