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Hydroponic Solutions for Soilless Production Systems: Issues and Opportunities in a Smart Agriculture Perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Plant Science, 2019
Soilless cultivation represent a valid opportunity for the agricultural production sector, especially in areas characterized by severe soil degradation and limited water availability.
P. Sambo   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toward climate-smart agriculture in West Africa: a review of climate change impacts, adaptation strategies and policy developments for the livestock, fishery and crop production sectors

open access: yesAgriculture & Food Security, 2016
Many projections of the impact of climate change on the crop, livestock and fishery production sectors of African agriculture are reported in the literature.
R. Zougmoré   +8 more
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

Does Urban Agriculture help improve women`s resilience to poverty? Evidence from low- income generating women in Bulawayo

open access: yesIOSR Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 2014
This article analyses how women have used Urban Agriculture (UA) as a resilience strategy to poverty in Bulawayo`s high density suburb of Cowdray Park. Women, who are naturally the primary care givers tend to suffer the most in urban areas as quite often they have to bear the responsibility of food provision at home.
Sebata, Nobuhle   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Phenolic Profile, Antioxidant Activity and Amino Acid Composition of Moringa Leaves Fermented with Edible Fungal Strains

open access: yesFoods, 2022
Solid-state fermentation (SSF) is widely recognised as a technique to increase the bioactive potential and nutritional value of plant materials. However, the effect of this biotreatment differs for individual substrates.
Anna Starzyńska-Janiszewska   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

L’Agriculture, l’État et la stagflation mondiale : la politique canadienne depuis 1970 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1981
The development of Canadian agriculture was founded (similarly to that of Australia, New Zealand, Argentina and Uruguay) on the basis of an economy with dominion-wide referents. To begin, this article ascertains the general characteristics of that System.
Ehrensaft, Philip
core   +1 more source

Economy-wide effects of drought on South African Agriculture: A computable general equilibrium (CGE) analysis

open access: yes, 2017
South Africa’s agricultural sector is comprised of livestock, field crops and fruit in their order of size, in gross value terms. Agriculture in South Africa accounts for a relatively low share in the economy (3% of gross domestic product - GDP), 6% of ...
S. Ntombela   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Site Specific Land Management; General Concepts and Applications [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
To meet the growing need of people for increasing farm income and to minimize the negative environmental impact of today s farm practices, a new farming concept has been evolved where inputs are fine tuned and optimized according to the local field ...
ADHIKARI Kabindra   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Alternative versus conventional attitudes in higher agricultural education [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
From radical positions it is argued that it will take paradigmatic transformations to develop a sustainable agriculture and that values and attitudes have to be changed.
Kaltoft, Pernille, Rasmussen, Jesper
core   +1 more source

Data collection on the use of embryo bioassays with aquatic animals for toxicity testing and hazard assessment of emerging pollutants

open access: yesData in Brief, 2020
A thorough bibliographic survey on the use of embryo-tests with aquatic animals for toxicity testing was performed. The data regarding to the compounds sensitivity (NOEC, LOEC, EC50 and LC50), the available resources for the different animal models ...
Ricardo Capela   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Land Management Impacts on Soil Water Erosion and Loss of Nutrients

open access: yesProceedings, 2019
Humans are the driving factor of soil erosion and degradation. Therefore, sustainable land management practices should be developed and applied. The aim of this study was to determine land management impacts on soil properties, soil loss and nutrient ...
Leon Josip Telak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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