Over 40% of the earth’s land surface are drylands that are home to approximately 2.5 billion people. Livelihood sustainability in drylands is threatened by a complex and interrelated range of social, economic, political, and environmental changes that present significant challenges to researchers, policy makers, and, above all, rural land users. Dynamic ecological and environmental change model...

Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713597269 Review of potential environmental impacts of transgenic glyphosate-resistant soybean in Brazil Antonio L. Cerdeira a; Dionsio L. P. Gazziero b; St...

Spain is one of the countries with the highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the EU-27. Consequently, mitigation strategies need to be reported and quantified to accomplish the goals and requirements of the Kyoto Protocol. In this study, a first estimation of the carbon (C) mitigation potential of tillage reduction in Mediterranean rainfed Spain is presented. Results from eight studies ...

Tulisan ini mengkaji dampak dari tahun-tahun awal reformasi politik, demokratisasi, dan otonomi daerah terhadap masalah agraria. Selama masa Orde Baru, masyarakat setempat tidak dilibatkan dalam hal kepemilikan/pengelolaan sumber daya tanah. Sengketa tanah berkembang menjadi isu politik di banyak daerah di Indonesia. Data yang disajikan dalam tulisan ini berasal dari Sumatra Selatan, salah satu...

Suatu tinjauan kimia terhadap kualiti air di Sungai Batang Belungkung dan Sungai Gombak telah dijalankan dengan tujuan untuk mengkajikan kadar pencemaran yang disebabkan oleh pembuangan kekotoran dari te mpat-tempat kediaman dan kilang-kilang getah. Kandungan oksigen terlarut (DO), keperluan oksigen dari segi biokimia (BOD), keperluan oksigen dari segi kimia (COD), zat makanan (fosforus dan nit...

a Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China b China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University, Beijing, China c School of Economics and Management, Northwest University, Xi'an, China d Center for Experimental Economics in Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, C...

Globally and in the United States, agriculture is the major user not only of water but also of land. This paper compares trends in aggregate and per capita water and land use by the agricultural sector in the United States and the world during the 20 century. It finds that although cropland use per capita has been declining in both areas since the early 1900s, agricultural water use per capita ...

Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Biomanufacturing Research Institute and Technology Enterprise, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina 27707 (C.-Y.H., F.S.K., B.M.H., J.X.); Department of Agronomy, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310029, China (L.F., J.Q., S.T.); Institute of Biological Chemistry, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164 (K.S., S.R.); Yunnan...

RESEARCH ARTICLE Seed Identification of Gramineous Grass Using Local Similarity Pattern and Linear Discriminant Analysis Tong Chen, Xin Pan, Yubao Ma, Weihong Yan, Guifang Wu and Zhihong Yu College of Computer and Information Engineering, Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Huhhot, Inner Mongolia 010018, P.R. China Grassland Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hu...