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Perceptions of South African small-scale farmers towards the adoption of smart irrigation technologies

open access: yesSouth African Journal of Information Management
Background: South Africa’s agricultural issues include water scarcity, unpredictable climate conditions and the degradation of soil. Considering the crucial importance of food and water as commodities, farmers must carefully conserve water while ...
Alfred T. Kgopa, Baakanyang B. Monchusi
doaj   +1 more source

Encouraging sustainable development in a coastal community: New Hanover County, North Carolina's exceptional design zoning district [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
While New Hanover County is the second smallest county in North Carolina, it is also the second most densely populated with approximately 850 people per square mile. Nestled between the Cape Fear River and Atlantic Ocean with surrounding barrier island
Ralston, Shawn
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N2 fixation is linked to the ability to encroach in African savanna trees

open access: yesFunctional Ecology, EarlyView.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Encroachment is a globally ubiquitous phenomenon, characterised by increasing indigenous tree densities in savanna and grassland. Encroachment has been attributed to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations fertilising tree growth and shifting the competitive balance ...
Elizabeth M. Telford   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

4 Levels of IoT Architecture for Smart Irrigation Rice Fields

open access: yesJOIN: Jurnal Online Informatika
Water is one of the main components in the agricultural sector. Traditional irrigation systems are often inefficient and ineffective, which can lead to water wastage and require huge resources.
R Hafid Hardyanto   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of pH on Growth of Salvinia molesta Mitchell [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Growth of giant salvinia ( Salvinia molesta Mitchell) under different pH regimes was examined at the Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility (LAERF) in Lewisville, Texas.(PDF has 5 pages.
Dick, Gary O.   +3 more
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The Consequences of Soil Organic Carbon for Crop Yield, Farm Productivity and Profit

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Crop choices affect soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, allowing farmers to manipulate the amount of carbon sequestered in the soil over time. This paper examines the private and public benefits of crop rotations that sequester additional carbon across the province of Saskatchewan, Canada using a novel field‐level dataset from the Saskatchewan ...
Devin Allen Serfas
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating Causal Effects With Observational Data: Guidelines for Agricultural and Applied Economists

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Most research questions in agricultural and applied economics are causal in nature: they study how changes in one or more variables (such as policies, prices or weather) affect one or more other variables (e.g., income, crop yields or pollution).
Arne Henningsen   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Approach for Smart Irrigation System using IoT Techniques

open access: bronze, 2022
S. Sumathi   +2 more
openalex   +1 more source

Rise of the south: How Arab‐led maritime trade transformed China, 671–1371 CE

open access: yesAsia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 3-38, March 2025.
Abstract China's center of socioeconomic activities was in the North prior to the Tang dynasty but is in the South today. We demonstrate that Arab and Persian Muslim traders triggered that transition when they came to China in the late seventh century, by lifting maritime trade along the South Coast and re‐creating the South.
Zhiwu Chen, Zhan Lin, Kaixiang Peng
wiley   +1 more source

Design, Implementation, and Empirical Validation of an IoT Smart Irrigation System for Fog Computing Applications Based on LoRa and LoRaWAN Sensor Nodes. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2020
Froiz-Míguez I   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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