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Optimize farm size and agronomic practices to improve agricultural sustainability: a case of multi-indicator assessment from the North China Plain
Farm size plays a critical role in agricultural sustainability, which has profound implications for the economic and environmental performances of...
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Job satisfaction of farm advisors working through an immature farm advisory system
The main purpose of this study is to examine the job satisfaction of farm advisors employed in an immature farm advisory system that was implemented...
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Smaller farm size and ruminant animals are associated with increased supply of non-provisioning ecosystem services
To balance trade-offs between livestock’s negative environmental impacts and their positive contributions (e.g. maintaining semi-natural grasslands,...
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On-farm Occurrence of Pharmaceuticals and Their Environmental Hazard: Case Study of a Tropical Dairy farm
Animal husbandry wastewaters represent an important source of pharmaceuticals into the environment. This work aimed to evaluate the occurrence of...
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Refining the Farm Aquaculture Resource Management Model for Shellfish Nitrogen Removal at the Local Scale
Nutrient-related environmental degradation in coastal waters is a continuing global problem. Bivalve shellfish farms show nutrient removal...
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Factors influencing farm succession decisions: evidence from coffee farmers of Colombia
In Colombia and other South American countries, government programs have been implemented to improve the livelihoods of coffee farmers. However, the...
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Earthen Embankments and Farm Ponds
Earthen embankments are used extensively for impounding and diverting water for irrigation. Similarly, farm ponds are prevalent water harvesting...
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Impacts of climate-smart agricultural practices on farm households’ climate resilience and vulnerability in Bale-Eco Region, Ethiopia
Climate change remains a significant threat to farm households, especially in develo** countries. It exacerbates their vulnerability to food...
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The impact of direct benefit transfers for micro-irrigation on farm performance: Evidence from India
Using data from a survey of farm households in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and employing a sequential logit model, this paper has investigated...
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Ranchers or pastoralists? Farm size, specialisation and production strategy amongst cattle farmers in south-eastern Kazakhstan
Against the global trend towards sedentary, specialised and feed-intensive cattle farming, we explore current patterns of production in Kazakhstan’s...
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Natural circumstances and farm labor supply adjustment: the response of the farm labor supply to permanent and transitory natural events
Labor supply adjustment is one of the main mechanisms of farm households, which is often utilized to alleviate the impact of undesired natural...
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Farm forests, seasonal hunger, and biomass poverty: Evidence of induced intensification from panel data in the Ethiopian Highlands
Seasonal hunger is the most common food insecurity experience for millions of small dryland farmers. This study tests the relationships between food...
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Exploring the effects of farm mechanization, financial development, and renewable energy on China’s food production
Despite having 22% of the world's population, China only has 7% of arable land, making it difficult for the country to be self-sufficient in food...
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Importance of on-farm research for validating process-based models of climate-smart agriculture
Climate-smart agriculture can be used to build soil carbon stocks, decrease agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and increase agronomic...
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Farm households' perception and adaptation to climate change in relation of food crop productivity in Pakistan
Challenges to crop sector arising from changing temperature and rainfall cause losses to food crop productivity in particular and agriculture sector...
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Farmers’ evolving attitudes on environmental conditionality in the CAP: a farm level examination of temporal shifts
Given the anticipated shift in the allocation of resources under the common agricultural policy (CAP) toward increasing positive environmental...
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Adaptation and Resistance of Microbial Communities to Antibiotic Contamination in the Surrounding Environment of a Sustainable Pig Farm
An investigation was conducted in the vicinity of a sustainable pig farm to assess the presence of antibiotics through SPE-HPLC/MS/MS, microbial...
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Energy audit of tobacco production agro-system based on different farm size levels in northern Iran
AbstractThis study aimed to model the relationships between input and output energies of tobacco production in northern Iran, Guilan Province, and...
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Examining linkages among multiple sustainable development outcomes: does the productive safety net program increase on-farm agrobiodiversity?
In Ethiopia, on-farm agrobiodiversity and the Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) play a key role in building smallholders’ resilience. However, the...
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Impact of livelihood capital and rural site conditions on livelihood resilience of farm households: evidence from contiguous poverty–stricken areas in China
Farm households around the world are increasingly exposed to both external and internal shocks and stressors. Enhancing the resilience of farm...
