Between 12 000 and 8000 years ago a variety of different farming systems began to appear around the world. The emergence of farming reflects the coevolution of humans and plants, in that both acted to transform the other. Over the millennia more than 300 different plants have been domesticated, of which about 25 are today considered staples. Different plants and techniques appropriate to their ...

Terraced systems currently represent an indubitable added value for Tuscany, as well as for other Italian regions and for several Mediterranean countries. This value goes beyond their original function of hosting new areas for cultivation. The hydrological functions performed by these systems, including control of erosion, stabilisation of the slopes, prolongation of runoff times and the possib...

In the hilly regions of China, developing sustainable agriculture requires implementing conservation management practices that prevent soil erosion and conserve soil and water resources. In the semiarid northwest Loess Plateau, the primary conservation management practice is terracing. Numerical simulation of soil water dynamics in terraces is potentially an efficient means of investigating the...

The Three Gorges Reservoir Area is one of the most severe soil erosion in China. Serious erosion has degraded the soil productivity, deteriorated the ecological environment, and influenced the service life of Three Gorges Reservoir. The natural and social-economic factors which influence the soil erosion in Three Gorges Reservoir Area include topography, geological situation, vegetation, rainfa...

The prevention and control of soil erosion through water conservation measures is crucial. It imperative to accurately quickly extract information on these in order understand how their configuration affects the runoff sediment yield process. In this investigation, intelligent interpretation algorithms deep learning semantic segmentation models pertinent remote sensing imagery were examined scr...