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AGROFOR, 2018 For decades, the mountain regions in Austria have been of regional, social,environmental and economic relevance. The European Union has ranked themamong the most disadvantaged areas for agriculture. Nevertheless, in mountainousregions, ‘disadvantaged’ is not synonymous with marginal. On the contrary,agriculture is central to mountainous regions.
Erika QUENDLER
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Mountain farming systems efficiency and sustainability [PDF]
, 2015 Like other economic sectors, agriculture requires the efficient use of resources and farming inputs, considered as a key factor for sustainability. On the other hand, the ecological limitations of the productivity in mountains make the study of efficiency in agricultural systems in these areas even more crucial.
Pires, Jaime +4 more
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The Profitability of Seasonal Mountain Dairy farming in Norway [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper the economics of seasonal production of cheese in the mountain in Norway is investigated and compared with keeping the cows at the farm, investing in a common pasture or in co-operative dairy farming. The comparison is based on calculations
Lunnan, Tor +2 more
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Family Dairy Farms in the Northern French Alps: Persistence and Adaptation in a Changing World
Mountain Research and Development, 2015 The maintenance of family farms in mountain areas constitutes a serious challenge in the context of globalization. European mountain agriculture faces significant natural constraints and cannot follow the same development path as agriculture in the ...
Sophie Madelrieux +3 more
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Journal of Maps, 2022 The ombroxeric index (OXI), a drought-indicative bioclimatic index based on the Rivas-Martínez Worldwide Bioclimatic Classification System (WBCS), was used in this work to establish the ombroxericity trends in a defined study area: the province of Leon ...
G. B. Ferreiro-Lera +2 more
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Юг России: экология, развитие, 2015 The aim is to analyze the current state of mountain agriculture in a crisis of traditional agricultural civilization based on terraced agriculture.Results and discussion.
Z. M. Asadulaev, A. M. Musaev
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Acta Geographica Slovenica, 2004 In this paper, a conception of developmental types of mountain farms in the municipality Ribnica na Pohorju is presented regarding the state of developmental potentials on farms.
Boštjan Kerbler
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Land, 2021 Mountain farming sustains human well-being by providing various ecosystem services (ES). In the last decades, socio-economic developments have led to worldwide changes in land-use/cover (LULC), but the related effects on ES have not been fully explored ...
Uta Schirpke +3 more
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Des broussailles dans les prairies alpines
Revue de Géographie Alpine, 2008 Landscape closing due to the decline in agricultural activity is considered to be a major problem in the Alps. Abondance Valley provides a good example of this phenomenon and is also representative of a paradox commonly found in the Northern French Alps:
Olivier Camacho +2 more
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Italian Journal of Animal Science, 2020 The objective of this study was to compare animal-related figures in milk and meat production and economic revenues from milk and animal sales over the last decade of the five most-common dairy cattle breeds in South Tyrol.
Thomas Zanon +2 more
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