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Sustainable agriculture

Journal of Progress in Engineering and Physical Science
This timely and important Handbook takes stock of progress made in our understanding of what sustainable development actually is and how it can be measured and achieved.
Muheddin Mahmud Rteba   +1 more
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Sustainability, Agriculture, and Agricultural Policy [PDF]

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In this paper, the problem of achieving sustainable development in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and other policy suggestions is examined. Sustainable development is defined as a commitment to conserve necessary biological, cultural, and aesthetic capital for future generations. This is not a costless process.
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Innovations in Sustainable Agriculture

2019
Foreword -- Preface -- PART I INTRODUCTION -- Chapter 1 Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security -- PART II ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY -- Chapter 2 Integrating Conservation and Agriculture -- Chapter 3 Microbial Applications for Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 4 Innovation System Approach for Urban Agriculture -- PART III RESOURCES USE EFFICIENCY ...
Farooq M., Pisante M.
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Sustainable agriculture for biodiversity, biodiversity for sustainable agriculture

Biodiversity, 2017
This 48-page brochure showcases FAO’s fields of work, providing numerous working examples of the importance of biodiversity to the agricultural, fishery and forestry sectors.The introduction immedi...
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Sustainable agriculture

2007
Humans today are mostly dependent on agriculture for food, a necessity for their survival. This may explain why so much recent attention has been given to the question of whether agriculture, particularly modern agriculture, can maintain its current levels of production and those predicted for the near future.
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Sustainable Agriculture

International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, 2021
In this study, based on an extensive review of the literature, the variables influencing the sustainability of agriculture were identified. Next, the responses were obtained from 144 farmers of Odisha in India by the use of questionnaires on the extent of influence of these variables on sustainability. Subsequently, the factor analysis was done to find
Debesh Mishra, Suchismita Satapathy
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Sustainable Agriculture is Humane, Humane Agriculture is Sustainable

Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics, 2005
Procedures that increase the sustainability of agriculture often result in animals being treated more humanely:both livestock in animal and mixed farming and wildlife in arable farming. Equally, procedures ensuring humane treatment of farm animals often increase sustainability, for example in disease control and manure management.
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Advanced agricultural biotechnologies and sustainable agriculture

Trends in Biotechnology, 2002
Agricultural biotechnologies are anchored to a scientific paradigm rooted in experimental biology, whereas sustainable agriculture rests on a biological paradigm that is best described as ecological. Both biotechnology and sustainable agriculture are associated with particular social science paradigms: biotechnology has its foundation in neoclassical ...
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Sustainability of irrigated agriculture.

1996
Ouvrage de synthèse sur l'utilisation de l'irrigation en agriculture.
Pereira, L.S.   +3 more
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