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Vertical Farming of Medicinal Plants
Medicinal plants have been used in traditional medicine, health food supplements, rituals, and for health care purposes for thousands of years....
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Smart Farming Management
Smart farming is a development that emphasizes the use of information and communication technology in the cyber-physical farm management cycle. This...
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Opportunities and determinants for rural youth engagement in catfish farming: empirical evidence from north-central Bangladesh
Providing productive and dignified work for rural youth is one of the most serious concerns of the twenty-first century in countries characterised by...
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Hybridisation of Food Chains in Peri-urban Production Systems: The Example of Pisa in Italy
Peri-urban farms can react to urban pressure in different ways. Farmers can give up farming altogether and sell the land, profiting from high land...
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The Practical Ethics of Urban Agriculture in Public Housing
Urban agriculture planning encompasses ethical dimensions. In this paper, two cases of housing authority-led farming and gardening projects are...
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Impacts of Climate Change of Paddy Farming in Four Iraqi Rural Communities: The Case of Al Najaf, Al Qadisiyah, Al Muthanna and Thi Qar
Impacts of climate change on paddy farming of four districts (Al Najaf, Al Qadisiyah, Al Muthanna and Thi Qar) in the south of Iraq were investigated...
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Diversity of Plant Uses by a Farming Community of Northwestern Colombia: a Quantitative Approach
The Magdalena river valley is characterized by an extensive sociocultural and biological diversity, although influenced by armed groups,...
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Healing the Racial Divide in Urban Agriculture
The promise of urban agriculture (UA) is in its potential to transform the communities around it. But who is able to farm in urban spaces and the...
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Organic Farming of Spices: Concepts, Issues, and Strategies
Conventional farming is the most commonly followed practice, but it makes use of synthetic fertilizers for growing crops and pesticides for killing...
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Effects of urban land-use types on avifauna assemblage in a rapidly develo** urban settlement in Ghana
Given that rates of urbanization are rising globally, the need to maintain and enhance urban biodiversity has become important. This study examines...
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Urban Agriculture Embedded in a Food Systems Approach: The Baltimore Story
The City of Baltimore has made great progress in develo** its urban agriculture policies over the last decade, as part of an overall food systems...
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Plant Molecular Farming: A Boon for Develo** Countries
Develo** countries are often at the back of the queue to receive much-needed vaccines and diagnostics. This chapter discusses the diseases...
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Urban Ecosystems
With the increasing proportion of the world’s population living in cities, urban ecosystems are of great importance as living spaces for humans. The...
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Estimating the pollination supply of urban green spaces to determine suitable areas for urban agriculture in the city of Tehran
Identifying urban areas with a high potential for providing pollination is essential for the management of urban agriculture. Urban green spaces have...
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Vertebrates and flying insects provide biocontrol services to Australian urban food gardens
Biocontrol by wild insects and other organisms is an important service provided to agriculture, but few studies have linked the role of this service...
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Build an Urban Erosion Model
This lab is about soil degradation and erosion processes in urban areas. Soil erosion is the natural process by which soil is moved from one place to...
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Urban Agriculture as a Tool for Adapting Future Cities
Urbanization, industrialization, and improvements in transportation have meant that most produce (fruits and vegetables) no longer needs to be...
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Invertebrate diversity in peri-urban community gardens and possible mechanisms of community assemblage
Urban gardening is becoming increasingly popular in the U.S., in metro and nonmetro communities alike, to address rapid urbanization and food...
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The future of farming: Who will produce our food?
Achieving SDG2 (zero hunger) in a situation of rapid global population growth requires a continued focus on food production. Farming not merely needs...
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Is Your Urban Soil Safe? Evaluating Contamination Risks and Mitigation Options
This lab focuses on the assessment of soil contamination in urban areas and the potential risks associated with gardening, farming, and working in...