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Soil quality and farm profitability: A win-win situation [PDF]

Farmers are more likely to adopt and adapt improved soil management strategies if their efforts lead to an immediate economic benefit. An encouraging policy environment, as well as farmer organisation also stimulates the adoption of conservation ...
Flores Velázquez, D., Hellin, J., López Báez, W., Pulleman, M.M.   +3 more
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Soil crusting in Western Samoa. Part II - Experimental investigation of factors influencing crust formation [PDF]

, 1971
The Alafua Penetrometer was used to measure relative differences in soil crust strength. Crust strength and thickness were shown to increase with increases in rainfall amount, drying time, droplet size, kinetic energy and soil clay and silt content.
Reynolds, S.G.
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Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study aims to explore the influence of Wine Tourism (WT) on the Sustainable Performance (SP) of wineries in Spain. It particularly investigates how Corporate Social Legitimacy (CSL) and Green Innovation (GI) may act as intermediary factors in this relationship.
Javier Martínez‐Falcó, Eduardo Sánchez‐García, Bartolomé Marco‐Lajara, Luis A. Millán‐Tudela   +3 more
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Effects of simulated acid rain on soil respiration and its component in a mixed coniferous-broadleaved forest of the three gorges reservoir area in Southwest China

Forest Ecosystems, 2019
Background Soil respiration in forest ecosystems is an important part of the forest carbon (C) cycle. Studying the variation patterns of soil respiration under acid rain conditions is critically important for understanding forest C balance and performing
Yifan Li, Yunqi Wang, Yujie Wang, Bin Wang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-objective Allocation Optimization of Soil Conservation Measures Under Data Uncertainty. [PDF]

Environ Manage, 2023
Hildemann M, Pebesma E, Verstegen JA.
europepmc   +1 more source

AGRICULTURAL SEDIMENTATION IMPACTS ON LAKESIDE PROPERTY VALUES [PDF]

A hedonic pricing model is developed to estimate the effects of policies to control agricultural sedimentation on lakeside property values at 15 Ohio state park lakes, Using an LA/AIDS demand system, we estimate changes in social welfare that result from
Bejranonda, Somskaow, Hite, Diane, Hitzhusen, Frederick J.   +2 more
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Charting the Path to Increased Oil Palm Output in Ghana Beyond Area Expansion: Technology or Managerial Capacity — Which Leads the Way?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study sets out to investigate the prospects for raising oil palm output in sub‐Saharan Africa, particularly Ghana, without further expansion of cropland. Given global concerns about oil palm's role in deforestation and land use change, the focus is on enhancing productivity on existing farmlands.
Jacob Asravor, Francis Tsiboe, Ayobami Adetoyinbo, Jacob Ankamah   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soil Water Distribution and Water Supply Characteristics of Farmland to Apple Orchard in Their Adjacent Areas on the Loess Tableland

Shuitu Baochi Xuebao
[Objective] To investigate the spatial distribution and cooperative utilization characteristics of soil water under the orchard-farmland mosaic pattern in the southern Loess Tableland.
HAN Xiaoyang, WANG Yaping, ZHU Yuanjun, LIU Wenzhao   +3 more
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A Chinese soil conservation dataset preventing soil water erosion from 1992 to 2019. [PDF]

Sci Data, 2023
Li J, He H, Zeng Q, Chen L, Sun R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Risk Preferences as Determinants of Soil Conservation Decisions in Ethiopia [PDF]

Soil degradation is one of the most serious environmental problems in the highlands of Ethiopia. The prevalence of traditional agricultural land use and the absence of appropriate resource management often result in the degradation of natural soil ...
Köhlin, Gunnar, Teklewold, Hailemariam
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