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Biology, Medicine & Natural Product Chemistry, 2023 Crop losses in vegetable crops due to nematodes are a concern in a country like Senegal where food demand is increasingly high. The use of chemical pesticides has made great progress in increasing harvests in Senegal.
El Hadji Gorgui Diouf +6 more
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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 Use in Market Gardening and Perceived Risk of Consumers Exposed to Pesticide Residues
Turkish Journal of Agriculture - Food Science and Technology, 2022 Pesticides are commonly applied in market gardening to improve productivity and pest control. Pesticide residues could be persistent in vegetables and generate a potential health hazard for consumers.
K. Toumi +5 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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Asian Journal of Physical and Chemical Sciences, 2022 Agricultural soil quality deterioration resulting from an increase in the level of heavy metals is becoming more and more pronounced, thus raising the question on the safety status of human health and the environment.
B. Luc +5 more
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Growing in Glasgow: Innovative practices and emerging policy pathways for urban agriculture [PDF]
, 2017 Driven by shared concerns about climate change, social justice and health and wellbeing, Urban Agriculture (UA) is an emergent global movement. In this paper, we present an exploratory case study of UA practice on the Southside of Glasgow, UK that traced
Bunn, Christopher, White, James T.
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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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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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Tracés, 2021 The greening of agricultural practices is accompanied by a questioning of the anthropocentric monologue of “making on” a nature reduced to an object, allowing us to discover practices “with” a material capable of acting in the world.
Aurélie Javelle
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