1 Fish Health Unit, Marine Institute, Galway, Ireland, Marine and Freshwater Research Centre, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway, Ireland, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Vet Aqua International, Oranmore Business Park, Galway, Ireland, CSIRO Agriculture and Food, Integrated Sustainable Aquaculture Production, St. Luci...

Combining with agricultural production practice, we propose the agriculture wireless and humidity sensor network design, which is based on ZigBee technology. And we use the chip based on the CC2530 ZigBee protocol as the sensor nodes and coordinator nodes for data collection, transmission and display, aiming to realize the agricultural production automation and precision agriculture.

T.A. Kotsopoulos , X. Karamanlis, D. Dotas, G.G. Martzopoulos Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece Department of Animal Production, Ichthyology, Ecology & Protection of Environment, School of Veterinary Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki 54124, Greece Department of Animal Produc...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The forces that shape agriculture 3. Characteristics of water use for food production 4. How much water to produce food? 5. The outlook for water for agriculture 6. Adapting to water scarcity 7. Rural poverty, water and food security 8. The special role of groundwater 9. Food production and the aquatic environment Glossary Bibliography Biographical Sketch

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,460 25.3 2.7 1.1 24.5 Crop production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,206 24.4 2.0 1.6 29.8 Animal production and aquaculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,237 24.7 2.8 1.0 23.1 Crop production. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,107 25.6 3.1 1.5 30.5 Animal production and aquaculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Row-crop agriculture is one of the most extensive and closely coupled natural– human systems and has extraordinary implications for human welfare and environmental well-being. The continued intensification of row-crop agriculture provides food for billions and, for at least the past 50 years, has slowed (but not stopped) the expansion of cropping onto lands valued for conservation and other env...