Five durum wheat cultivars were grown in a Mediterranean area (Southern Italy) under conventional and organic farming with the aim to evaluate agronomic, technological, sensory, and sanitary quality of grains and pasta. The cultivar Matt produced the best pasta quality under conventional cropping system, while the quality parameters evaluated were unsatisfactory under organic farming. The culti...

structural characteristics and spatial distribution of major farming systems in mountain environment of the iranian plateau as well as their developments in the past few decades have been studied by statistical analysis. using this new approach, towards the study of natural resource allocation methods in mountains of iran, the following resulted: land and resource use practices have followed a ...

This paper presents a unified framework that will facilitate the implementation of future autonomous farming systems. It describes the coordination of information flow between what is called precision autonomous farming and Precision Agriculture. Precision Agriculture aims to fulfill the agronomical needs of the crop growth. Precision autonomous farming addresses the operation, guidance and con...

Farming systems for pest control, based on the stimulo-deterrent diversionary strategy or push-pull system, have become an important target for sustainable intensification of food production. A prominent example is push-pull developed in sub-Saharan Africa using a combination of companion plants delivering semiochemicals, as plant secondary metabolites, for smallholder farming cereal production...

TaskMaster is a system for managing priority-ordered queues that is designed to scale to 1 billion tasks across 100 thousand queues per node. A reliable queuing system, such as TaskMaster, provides a mechanism for distributing units of inherently serial work (tasks) to workers. Priorities are lexicographically ordered strings that give users more power than FIFO or fixed-range integer prioritie...

Understanding how natural resources co-evolve with management practices is fundamental to all questions concerning their sustainable management. In the search for new pathways of sustainable development we seek to understand how comparable initial conditions in agro-ecosystems lead to fundamentally different resource conditions. Agro-ecosystems are characterized by a high diversity, path depend...