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Animating Soil: Cultivating Young Children’s Soil Relations

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Environmental Education
Abstract This article explores young children’s relations with soil, drawing on research that positioned soil as animate, lively and interconnected. The paper investigates how animist approaches offered a mode of encounter for children and their teachers, encouraging them to see themselves as part of a larger ecological community. The research began
Jane Merewether   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Systems of Land Use in the Firgi Plains of the Chad Basin [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Studies on land use in Africa have usually been carried out by ethnologists or human geographers and were rarely concerned with data on the physical conditions of soil.
Braukämper, Ulrich   +3 more
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Do outgrower schemes enhance technology adoption and productivity? Evidence from maize farmers in Northern Ghana

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract Nucleus outgrower schemes are contractual arrangements where well‐resourced large‐scale farmers (nucleus farmers) are empowered by development support agencies to take charge of smallholder farmers, by providing them with market access and the necessary training on agronomic practices and farm inputs for production.
Dominic Tasila Konja, Awudu Abdulai
wiley   +1 more source

Immunodiagnosis of eyespot disease in winter wheat cultivated in different production systems

open access: yesActa Agrobotanica, 2012
The aim of the study carried out in the years 2001-2003 was to determine the occurrence of Pseudocercosporella herpotrichoides in winter wheat cultivated in different production systems using traditional visible disease assessment and ELISA technique ...
Ewa Solarska, Urszula Skomra
doaj   +1 more source

A New Phytochemical Screening Programme used for Crops grown with Organic and Conventional Methods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
A broad screening programme, covering the most general phytochemical groups of compounds, was developed on the basis of Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC).
Brandt, Kirsten   +4 more
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Analyzing individual rent price ratios in eastern German agricultural land markets: A GAMLSS approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study explores the rent price ratio in agricultural land markets, crucial for evaluating market efficiency, policy needs, and farmer decision‐making. Traditionally, the analyses faced challenges due to the absence of concurrent sale and rent data for the same land, potentially leading to biased results.
Marius Michels   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the glomalins content in the soil under winter wheat in different crop production systems

open access: yesPlant, Soil and Environment, 2018
The aim of the study was to evaluate the glomalins content (total glomalin (TG), easily extractable glomalin (EEG) and glomalin-related soil proteins (GRSP)) in the soil under winter wheat from different crop production systems.
Anna GAŁĄZKA   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microbial ecosystem constructed in water for successful organic hydroponics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Conventional hydroponics systems generally use only chemical fertilisers, not organic ones, since there are no microbial ecosystems present in such systems to mineralise organic compounds to inorganic nutrients.
Hiromi Ohmori   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Wine Tourism as a Catalyst for Sustainable Performance: The Mediating Role of Corporate Legitimacy and Green Innovation

open access: yesAgribusiness, 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the growth stage of weeds in their response to reduced herbicide doses

open access: yesActa Agrobotanica, 2012
The influence of weed growth stage on the efficacy of selected herbicides applied at reduced doses was investigated under pot experiments at the Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute in Wrocław.
Renata Kieloch, Krzysztof Domaradzki
doaj   +1 more source

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