Farming systems under contrasting management practices can contribute differently to the delivery of bundles ecosystem services (ES) in agricultural landscapes. Low intensity farming systems, such as High Nature Value farmlands, are expected deliver a wider range ES, whereas landscapes more intensive mainly provisioning services. Understanding associated with desirable outcomes terms biodiversi...

Agritourism has been promoted primarily as a way to mitigate economic challenges faced by small-scale family farmers, but it may also foster land stewardship and promote agricultural literacy. There very little research on these relationships. We employed qualitative approach assess how farmers’ involvement in agritourism microentrepreneurship shapes their of farmlands southeastern North Caroli...

Solar insecticidal lamps (SILs) play a vital role in green prevention and control of pests. By embedding SILs wireless sensor networks (WSNs), we establish novel agricultural Internet Things (IoT), referred to as the SIL-IoTs. In practice, deployment SIL nodes is determined by geographical characteristics an actual farmland, constraints on locations nodes, radio-wave propagation complex environ...

Sediment and nutrients yields especially from farmlands were studied in a watershed in Ishigaki island, Okinawa, Japan. The transport processes of these materials in rivers, mangrove, lagoon and coastal zones were studied by using various observation methods including stable isotope analysis. They were simulated by using a WEPP model which was modified to be applicable to such small islands by ...