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Committing to change? A case study on volunteer engagement at a New Zealand urban farm
Urban agriculture is a promising avenue for food system change; however, projects often struggle with a lack of volunteers—limiting both their...
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Estimating a semi-analytical solution for fish farm model using homotopy analysis method
In this paper, the homotopy analysis method (HAM) is employed to solve the dynamical behavior of nutrient density, fish population and mussel...
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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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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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The opinions of farm animal veterinarians in Ireland on antibiotic use and their role in antimicrobial stewardship
BackgroundAntibiotic use and resistance in animal production are a concern to public health, and there is an urgent need to reduce antibiotic use in...
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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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The tricot approach: an agile framework for decentralized on-farm testing supported by citizen science. A retrospective
Matching crop varieties to their target use context and user preferences is a challenge faced by many plant breeding programs serving smallholder...
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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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Bleeding skin lesions in gestating sows of a piglet producing farm in Austria
BackgroundStomoxys calcitrans , the stable fly, occurs in pig producing countries worldwide. While in cattle the impact of this blood sucking insect...
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Minimalist Farm-To-Table Practices: Connecting Consumers with Local Agriculture
The farm-to-table concept, especially when infused with minimalist principles, has sparked a culinary revolution. This study explores the...
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Role of farm infrastructure in agribusiness during a crisis: insights from rural Assam, India
This study aimed to examine how far village farms and marketing infrastructures are responsible for agribusiness crises posed by a pandemic induced...
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Veterinary Care of Farm Rabbits A Complete Practice Guide to Rabbit Medicine and Production
This holistic guide brings rabbit production science and medicine together. It considers the full spectrum of commercial rabbit husbandry, including...
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Did someone say “farmer-centric”? Digital tools for spatially distributed on-farm experimentation
On-farm experimentation (OFE) embeds the conduct of agronomic research within normal farm business operations such that experiments are driven by...
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Combining genetic markers, on-farm information and infrared data for the in-line prediction of blood biomarkers of metabolic disorders in Holstein cattle
BackgroundVarious blood metabolites are known to be useful indicators of health status in dairy cattle, but their routine assessment is...
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Evaluate the Impacts of Wind Farm Facilities on Land Values with Geographically-Linked Microdata in China
This study explores the impact of wind facilities on land values based on wind farm construction and land transaction datasets in China from 2005 to...
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Solar farm cable layout optimization as a graph problem
We introduce the Solar Farm Cable Layout Problem (SoFaCLaP), a novel graph-theoretic optimization problem. SoFaCLaP formalizes the task of finding a...
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An analysis of net farm income to guide agricultural policies in the Ethiopian highlands
BackgroundAs part of a larger food security project under Ethiopia’s Agricultural Growth Program (CASCAPE), 928 farms in the Ethiopian Highlands were...
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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...
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Inserting machines, displacing people: how automation imaginaries for agriculture promise ‘liberation’ from the industrialized farm
An emerging discourse about automated agricultural machinery imagines farms as places where farmers and workers do not need to be, but also...
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Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Research of the Aerodynamic Wake Behind the Wind Turbine of the Ulyanovsk Wind Farm
AbstractThe task of modeling the surface atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) in the wind turbine zone at the location of the Ulyanovsk wind farm is set....
