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Alternative Cropping Systems and Practices Tend to Improve Sustainability From a Multi‐Criteria Assessment Framework. A Systematic Review

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Alternative cropping systems and practices (ACSPs) are increasingly promoted as strategies to enhance sustainability across environmental, economic, and social dimensions. Consequently, evaluating the performance of ACSPs is necessary to determine whether they effectively contribute to sustainability across these multiple dimensions.
Claudia Daniel Escurza‐González   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
wiley   +1 more source

Benzimidazole Anthelmintic Compounds Albendazole and Fenbendazole Show Distinct Toxicity on the Nitrogen Fixing Bacterium Mesorhizobium loti and Its Symbiosis With Lotus japonicus

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Veterinary medicines, which reach the soil mostly through the application of contaminated manures, can affect beneficial soil microorganisms, such as nitrogen‐fixing rhizobia bacteria, which engage in important symbiotic associations with plants.
Polyxeni Gorgia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cotton Farming Pesticides Affect Ileal Microbiota Activity and Expression of Virulome but Not Resistome or Metabolic Pathways in a Sedentary Wild Passerine

open access: yesEnvironmental Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The increased use of agrochemicals to enhance crop production has had detrimental environmental effects including implication in the sharp decline of North American farmland‐breeding birds. Here, using a combination of deep shotgun metatranscriptomics and pesticide exposure data, we sought to assess whether exposure to cotton (Gossypium spp ...
Serguei V. Drovetski   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

2017 Organic Farm Management Handbook

open access: yes, 2017
The handbook provides information on the costs and performance of organic farms and related management issues, up-to-date business management information for farmers, advisers and others concerned with the management of organic farms. It is intended for

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Saline versus alkaline stresses in paddy soils drive divergent microbial nutrient limitations despite shared carbon constraints

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Soil salinization and alkalization often suppress microbial functional activity, triggering negative feedback loops in microbial metabolism, degrading nutrients and agricultural productivity.
Yuqi Chen, Lingying Xu, Xu Zhao
wiley   +1 more source

Archiving the History of Environmentalism: Insights from Academia and Practice

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum considers the current state of archiving for the environmental movement at local, national and international levels. It responds to a gap that researchers of environmentalism have long been aware of, but one that is poorly understood from the perspective of records management and collections development practice.
Henry Irving   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Studies on the Influence of Different Organic Manures on Soil Microbial Activity, Growth and Yield Performance of Blackgram (Vigna mungo L.)

open access: yesCurrent Innovation in Agriculture Science
The core principle of organic farming revolves around utilizing naturally occurring resources, such as organic waste, along with natural processes like decomposition, biological nitrogen fixation, and resistance, to fulfill the requirements of crop ...
Suma C Kammar
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Determination of phytase labile organic phosphate in organic manure

open access: yesDetermination of phytase labile organic phosphate in organic manure
紀要類 (bulletin) Poster ...
openaire   +1 more source

Uncovering Biogas Outcomes: Tales of Hubris, Hope, and Failure From Southern Malawi

open access: yesNatural Resources Forum, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to speak directly to biogas failure. Over the past two decades, immense amounts of money have been spent by African governments, private individuals, and most conspicuously, international aid agencies and donors, on countless biogas projects in every country on the continent.
Marc Kalina   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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