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Towards Water, Food and Energy Security: The Global Challenges and Possible Solutions for a Holistic Vision of Sustainability

Irrigation and Drainage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This invited paper gives an overview of the challenges the world is facing and offers a possible solution for water and food security within the holistic integrated concept of the water–energy–food (WEF) nexus. The paper summarizes the experience the author gained through working on various research projects at national and international ...
Ragab Ragab
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Can Ammonium Nitrate Be a Strategic Tool by Replacing Urea as a Nitrogen Supplementation Source to Beef Cattle in Intensified Grazing Systems?

Fermentation
For cattle raised on tropical grass pastures, it is essential to explore strategies that circumvent climatic seasonality that affect forage availability and quality. We hypothesize that the intensification of grazing systems, with rotational and deferred
Willian Rufino Andrade, Analisa Vasques Bertoloni, Flavio Perna Junior, Althieres José Furtado, Ana Laura Januário Lelis, Murilo Trettel, Alexandre Berndt, Patricia Perondi Anchão Oliveira, Angélica Simone Cravo Pereira, Paulo Henrique Mazza Rodrigues   +9 more
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Existing Accessible Modeling Tools Offer Limited Support to Evaluation of Impact Investment in Rangeland Ecosystem Services

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019
Privately owned rangelands in the western US support many ecosystem services and are threatened by financial incentives favoring conversion to housing development and more intensive forms of agriculture.
Beatrice L. Gordon, Virginia A. Kowal, Ambika Khadka, Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer, Roy Roath, Benjamin P. Bryant, Benjamin P. Bryant   +6 more
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ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF CONTROLLING LEAFY SPURGE WITH SHEEP [PDF]

Leafy spurge (Euphorbia esula L.), a widely established exotic, noxious, perennial weed, is a major threat to rangeland and wildland in the Upper Great Plains. Chemical, biological, and cultural control methods have limitations in their applicability and
Bangsund, Dean A., Leistritz, F. Larry, Nudell, Daniel J., Sell, Randall S.   +3 more
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Freeze‐dried Lactobacillus spp. improved average daily liveweight gain and reduced methane intensity in growing lambs

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, EarlyView.
Abstract BACKGROUND Direct fed microbials (DFM) are natural and safe enteric methane mitigants for ruminant livestock systems. While previous studies have demonstrated the effect of Lactobacillus spp. on methane mitigation, challenges remain in effectively delivering DFM in extensive grazing systems. The objective of this experiment was to evaluate the
Sreemol Suthan Nair, Stephanie K Muir, S Richard O Williams, Aodán S ó Neachtain, Subhash Chandra, Pablo S Alvarez‐Hess, Long Cheng, Joe L Jacobs   +7 more
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Vegetation composition and forage mass in grassland with a double structure under two winter grazing regimes

Ciência Rural, 2018
: Remnant areas of Pampas grassland have a distinct double structure. Efficiency of livestock farming on these grasslands depends on practices that are synchronized with natural variation.
André Alfredo Coelho, José Pedro Pereira Trindade, Leandro Bochi da Silva Volk, Clodoaldo Leites Pinheiro, Fernando Luiz Ferreira de Quadros   +4 more
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Organic grassland: the foundation stone of organic livestock farming [PDF]

, 2001
In organic farming, the components of the whole farm system interact closely and grassland plays the central role in this intricate web, including the arable cropping phase.
Younie, D.
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Impacts of reindeer grazing on phosphorus sorption and nutrient availability in a tundra site

Oikos, EarlyView.
Reindeer Rangifer tarandus, a large circumpolar herbivore, can influence whether nitrogen (N) or phosphorus (P) is the primary limiting nutrient in tundra plant communities. Specifically, findings from a site in northern Scandinavia suggest that under conditions where reindeer grazing stimulates inorganic N availability, grazing may drive ecosystems ...
Jerzy Szejgis, Johan Olofsson, Henni Ylänne, Michael J. Gundale, Reiner Giesler, Maja K. Sundqvist   +5 more
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A review of high nature value farming systems in Europe: Biodiversity, ecosystem services, drivers, innovations and future prospects

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Farming systems of high natural and cultural value represent approximately 30% of farmlands in the European Union and are associated with a high species and habitat diversity and/or the presence of species of European conservation concern. This study aims to synthesize the existing knowledge on the assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem ...
Elsa Varela, Marion Jay, Lukas Flinzberger, Chaima Mobarak, Tobias Plieninger   +4 more
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Resonances in 28Si+28Si. II

, 2012
Resonances observed in the 28Si+28Si collision are studied by the molecular model. In the preceding paper, it is clarified that at high spins in 28Si+28Si (oblate-oblate system), the stable dinuclear configuration of the system is equator-equator ...
Abe, Yasuhisa, Uegaki, Eiji
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