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Enhancing soil health and strawberry disease resistance: the impact of calcium cyanamide treatment on soil microbiota and physicochemical properties

Frontiers in Microbiology
IntroductionContinuous strawberry cropping often causes soil-borne diseases, with 20 calcium cyanamide being an effective soil fumigant, pig manure can often be used as soil organic fertilizer.
Ying-chun Du, Can-sheng Yuan, Yu-qi Song, Ying Yang, Qing-song Zheng, Qing-song Zheng, Qiong Hou, Di Wang, Di Wang, Lin Wang   +9 more
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The Environmental and Socio-Economic Effect of Farmland Management Right Transfer in China: A Systematic Review

Land, 2022
Small and fragmented arable land is a key challenge for small-scale agricultural countries, resulting in low labor productivity, ecological damage, and inefficient land use.
Meseret Abatechanie, Baozhong Cai, Fang Shi, Yuanji Huang   +3 more
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Beyond the ESG Facade: Measuring and Addressing Corporate ‘Lip Service’

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Amid growing global attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG), this study examines the misalignment between ESG disclosures and actual practices—termed ‘lip service’—using data from Chinese firms from 2006 to 2022, constructing an index to quantify it.
Jia Xu, Mingwei Liu, Helen X. H. Bao
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Fungal community composition and function in different Chinese post-fermented teas

Scientific Reports
Chinese post-fermented teas are produced through special fermentation by microorganisms, with fungi significantly contributing to their flavor and sensory characteristics. Here, the fungal community structure and function were investigated using Illumina
Pu Cui, Jia Li, Ting Yao, Zhuoting Gan
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Assessing leaf nitrogen concentration in rice using RGB imaging: a comparative study at leaf, canopy, and plot scales

Frontiers in Plant Science
Leaf nitrogen concentration (LNC) is a critical indicator for evaluating crop health and optimizing nitrogen management in sustainable agriculture. While multispectral and hyperspectral sensing techniques enable precise LNC estimation, their high cost ...
Haixiao Ge, Gaoqiang Lv, Yang Qin, Min Shen   +3 more
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Stakeholder‐Driven Food Policy and Multilevel Governance for Agri‐Food Systems Resilience: Integrating Climate Change, Food Security, and Biodiversity

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Climate‐resilient food systems require simultaneously addressing climate mitigation, food security, and biodiversity conservation. Yet most policy frameworks treat these interdependent goals as separate challenges, fragmenting action across sectors.
Nikolaos Syndoukas, Konstadinos Mattas, Efthimia Tsakiridou, Foivos Anastasiadis, Ioannis Manikas, Christos Staboulis, Alberto Arroyo Schnell, Claire Morelle   +7 more
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Unbinding from the soil: female off-farm entrepreneurship and the reconfiguration of household land in rural China

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
IntroductionRural China has long been shaped by a “men in industry, women in farming” division of labor, where women are often seen as guardians of household land.
Yongqi Xie, Shuhong Wang, Zhaoyuan Hao, Feixiang Liu, Shuai Wang   +4 more
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Industrial Symbiosis as a Neglected Opportunity in Industrial Decarbonisation Pathways: Qualitative Insights From the Australian Manufacturing Sector

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Industrial symbiosis (IS) represents a key strategy for industrial decarbonisation (ID) by converting one industry's waste into valuable inputs for another, reducing emissions and resource extraction. Scientific studies have explored the concept, implementation approaches and theoretical foundations of IS.
Marzieh Dehghan Niri, A S M Monjurul Hasan, Andrea Trianni   +2 more
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Research on the Antecedent Configurations of Tea Agricultural Heritage Systems for Sustainable Development from a Symbiotic Perspective

Agriculture
Based on the theories of symbiosis and configurational analysis, this study constructs a theoretical framework for exploring the sustainable development of tea agricultural heritage systems, with an empirical investigation of 40 typical cases in China ...
Liyu Mao, Jie Ma, Wenxin Wu, Wenqiang Jiang, Shuisheng Fan   +4 more
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The Subjective Position of the People in Rural Revitalization

, 2023
The issue of agricultural and rural farmers is a fundamental issue related to the national economy and the people's livelihood. The party and the government have always put the resolution of the "three rural" issues as the top priority of the party's ...
Xiujie Hu, Jingcheng Pan
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