Environment and Sustainability Issues in Agricultural Developement

Agricultural sustainability

Agriculture began in the eastern Mediterranean Levantine Corridor about 11 000 years ago toward the end of the Younger Dryas when aridity had diminished wild food resources. During the subsequent Climatic Optimum, agricultural villages spread rapidly but subsequent climatic changes on centennial to millennial scales resulted in striking 5 oscillations in settlement, especially in marginal areas...

Soil erosion and agricultural sustainability.

Data drawn from a global compilation of studies quantitatively confirm the long-articulated contention that erosion rates from conventionally plowed agricultural fields average 1-2 orders of magnitude greater than rates of soil production, erosion under native vegetation, and long-term geological erosion. The general equivalence of the latter indicates that, considered globally, hillslope soil ...

Shore Agricultural Sustainability Program

Combinations of proline and glutamine significantly increased the functional properties of soft wheatthat were unseen when added individually. To hard wheat, proline contributed more positively than glutamine onmost dough and bread properties, which is different from the observations with soft wheat. Addition of glutamine tohard wheat increased the amount of gluten and glutenin afte...

Dissertation Soil Degradation in China: Implications for Agricultural Sustainability, Food Security and the Environment

Genetic contributions to agricultural sustainability.

The current tools of enquiry into the structure and operation of the plant genome have provided us with an understanding of plant development and function far beyond the state of knowledge that we had previously. We know about key genetic controls repressing or stimulating the cascades of gene expression that move a plant through stages in its life cycle, facilitating the morphogenesis of veget...