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The animal agriculture industry, US universities, and the obstruction of climate understanding and policy
The 2006 United Nations report “Livestock’s Long Shadow” provided the first global estimate of the livestock sector’s contribution to anthropogenic...
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Amelioration of habitat since the early Holocene contributed to the origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China
The origin of agriculture in the farming-pastoral zone of northern China remains in dispute. The central region of the Inner Mongolia Plateau is...
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Adaptation technologies for climate-smart agriculture: a patent network analysis
Global interest in innovative adaptation approaches in climate-smart agriculture is growing, and adaptation technologies are expanding. This study...
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Reconsideration of the origins of the pastoral nomadic economy in the Eurasian Steppe
Archaeological discoveries indicate that a variety of economic models have operated in the inland areas of Asia. One of these models, pastoral...
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Indoor Air Quality in a Tertiary Institution: The Case of Federal College of Agriculture, Akure, Nigeria
The Federal College of Agriculture in Akure, Nigeria, was the site of this study, which aimed to monitor indoor air quality (PM 2.5 and PM 10 ) and...
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Bento Almeida d’Eça: Hydraulic Agriculture under the umbrella of Engineers in Nineteenth Century Portugal
In mid-nineteenth century Portugal, the practice of irrigation was deemed to be completely backwards in comparison with the prevailing European...
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Morphological characteristics of homozygous wild rice phytoliths and their significance in the study of rice origins
The analysis of wild rice cell structures, tissues, organs, and other morphological characteristics and the development of identification markers for...
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The history of agriculture in the mountainous areas of the lower Yangtze River since the late Neolithic
Understanding the role of agriculture in the development of human societies around the world is an important field of study with many unanswered...
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Inventions, innovations and the origins of spelt wheat
What turns an invention into an innovation? How, if at all, might we observe this process archaeologically? Loosely put, new varieties of plants or...
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Can social networks facilitate smallholders’ decisions to adopt climate-smart agriculture technologies? A three-level meta-analysis
The influence of social networks on the adoption decision for climate-smart agriculture (CSA) technologies and the relative effects of different...
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Phytolith evidence for early agriculture in the East Liao River Basin, Northeast China
We present the results of the analysis of phytoliths, grain size and organic matter content (LOI 550℃ ), and AMS 14 C dating of sedimentary profiles and...
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Implementation of water-saving agro-technologies and irrigation methods in agriculture of Uzbekistan on a large scale as an urgent issue
Usable water resource is limited, even though 71% of world is covered by water. Therefore, enough conflicts to the usable water can be found...
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Robustness of climate indices relevant for agriculture in Africa deduced from GCMs and RCMs against reanalysis and gridded observations
This study assesses the ability of climate models to represent rainy season (RS) dependent climate indices relevant for agriculture and crop-specific...
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Impact of Agriculture and Livestock on Quality of the Tagus Alluvial Groundwater Body: Evolution of Nitrate Concentration
Groundwater contamination by nitrates is a public health problem worldwide due to the intensive demand for food products. Under Portuguese Law,...
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Hydrochemical characteristics and quality assessment of shallow groundwater under intensive agriculture practices in arid region, Qena, Egypt
Monitoring groundwater quality and analyzing geochemical processes are very crucial in dry environments, especially in areas with intense agriculture...
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Recent attestations of “new” glume wheat in Turkey: a reassessment of its role in the reconstruction of Neolithic agriculture
Studies of the origins of agriculture in the Near East have revealed that the eight plant species known as “Founder Crops”, i.e. emmer, einkorn,...
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A preliminary study of early agriculture practices at the Haojiatai site in Luohe city, Henan Province
As the most fundamental economic sector of human societies, farming has played a significant role in interactions between humans and the environment....
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A review on the spread of prehistoric agriculture from southern China to mainland Southeast Asia
The origins and spread of agriculture was one of the milestones in human history. When and how prehistoric agriculture spread to mainland Southeast...
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Revisiting the concept of the ‘Neolithic Founder Crops’ in southwest Asia
Zohary and Hopf coined the term ‘founder crops’ to refer to a specific group of eight plants, namely three cereals (einkorn, emmer and barley), four...
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The first comprehensive archaeobotanical analysis of prehistoric agriculture in Kyrgyzstan
We present here the first comprehensive archaeobotanical investigation from the prehistoric farming settlement of Chap I (1065–825 cal bce ), located...
