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Indifferent to difference? Understanding the unequal impacts of farming technologies among smallholders. A review
With many of the world’s poor engaged in agriculture, agricultural development programmes often aim to improve livelihoods through improved farming...
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Low presence of potentially toxic elements in Singapore urban garden soils
BackgroundUrban agriculture is potentially an important piece of the food security puzzle for a rapidly growing urban world population. Community...
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Vertical Farming: Under Climate Change Effect
The daily life of people is changing due to the increase in climate change effects. In the times of historic Covid-19 pandemic event, by the...
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Ecosystem services in conventional farming systems. A review
Ecosystems worldwide are being disrupted under increased pressure from human activities. Nevertheless, most conservation studies and restoration...
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Dairy goats’ management and performance under smallholder farming systems in Eastern Africa: the systematic review and meta-analysis
The systematic review and meta-analysis study was conducted to describe dairy goat management practices among smallholder farmers in Kenya and...
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Factors affecting enduring participation in a pig farming program in Southern Papua, Indonesia
In mid-2016, the local government of Papua, Indonesia, launched a subsidised program to improve pig farming in the area, with 250 participants. This...
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Foxes and goats: the outcome of free-ranging livestock farming in Brazilian dry forests
Humans are promoting drastic changes in biological communities that result in ‘winner-loser’ species replacements across multiple spatial scales. In...
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Food production and resource use of urban farms and gardens: a five-country study
There is a lack of data on resources used and food produced at urban farms. This hampers attempts to quantify the environmental impacts of urban...
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Development of a Successful Integrated Farming System Model for Livelihood Sustenance of Dryland Farmers
In India, there is no scope left for horizontal expansion of food production due to the scarcity of land. Over the last 40 years (1971–2011), numbers...
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Integration of Precision Technology into Adaptive Phyconomy Systems for Extensive Tropical Red Seaweed Farming
Efforts are underway among phyconomists to blend precision techniques into the adaptive phyconomy systems that are prevalent in extensive commercial...
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Linking food security, food sovereignty and foodways in urban Southeast Asia: cases from Indonesia and Thailand
This article explores linkages between food security, food sovereignty and foodways within the context of poor urban populations in Southeast Asia....
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Advancing the optimization of urban–rural ecosystem service supply-demand mismatches and trade-offs
ContextIntensified human activities have disrupted landscape patterns, causing a reduction in the supply of ecosystem services (ESs) and an increase...
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Ecological and socio-environmental impacts of conversion to organic dairy farming
The main purpose of this study was to analyze the transition of conventional dairy farming to an organic system in family-based agriculture. Eight...
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Practical Ethics: Urban Agriculture in US Cities
Urban agriculture provides the opportunity to challenge the status quo within our current urban and food systems. The increased number and density of...
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Prospective of Agricultural Farming in Kuwait and Energy-Food-Water-Climate Nexus
Kuwait is a desert, arable land, and water-scarce country. Agriculture farming in Kuwait is mainly practiced in Al-Wafra and Abdali, and to a lesser...
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Mushroom-bioreactor biomass as bioactive protein source: synergy of mushroom rural and urban cultivation
Mushroom rural cultivation consumes an average 6-month period, while urban cultivation takes only 10 days or less. In this study, mushroom biomass...
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Analysis of Factors Influencing Plant Diversity in Urban Wetlands Based on a Structural Equation Model
Urban wetlands constitute a pivotal element within urban ecosystems. The implementation of ecologically sound wetland design methods can foster their...
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Planning [for Urban Agriculture] as Public Nurturance
This concluding chapter of a book honoring the late Jerome Kaufman, an urban planning scholar who drew attention to food systems, highlights the...