Ecological sanitation (EcoSan) systems capture and sanitize human excreta generate organic nutrient resources that can support more sustainable management in agricultural ecosystems. An emerging EcoSan system is implemented Haiti several other contexts globally couples container-based household toilets with aerobic, thermophilic composting. This closed loop generates be used as part of an ecolo...

Organic agriculture, sometimes called biological or ecological agriculture, combines traditional conservation-minded farming methods with modern farming technologies .The purpose of this research was to identify management skills in development of Organic Agriculture in West Azerbaijan Province (Iran) farms. The target population of this research included all agricultural experts who work in We...

Evidence of Duck Activity Induce Anatomical Structure Change and Lodging Resistance of Rice Plant Jia-En Zhang a , Guo-Ming Quan a , Zhao-Xiang Huang a , Shi-Ming Luo a & Ying Ouyang b a Key Laboratory of Ecological Agriculture of Ministry of Agriculture of the People's Republic of China, Key Laboratory of Agro-ecology and Rural Environment of Guangdong Regular Higher Education Institutions, So...

1Key Laboratory of Agro-Ecological Processes in Subtropical Region, Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Observation and Experiment Station of Animal Nutrition and Feed Science in South-Central China, Ministry of Agriculture, Hunan Provincial Engineering Research Center for Healthy Livestock and Poultry Production, Changsha, Hunan, China 2University of the Chinese ...

This article studies the causes of the low-leveled conditions of agricultural production in Chongqing, the low-degreed organization, scale and standardization on production, the huge income gap between urban and rural residents and the indistinctive diversification and characteristics of agricultural modernization. It analyzes Chongqing made use of industry to nurture agriculture in the context...

a Tropical Biodiversity Section, Museo delle Scienze, Via Calepina 14, 38122 Trento, Italy Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, c/o Udzungwa Mountains National Park, P.O. Box 99, Mang’ula, Tanzania Department of Wildlife Management, Sokoine University of Agriculture, P.O. Box 3073, Morogoro, Tanzania Centre for Forest and Landscape, University of Copenhagen, Rolighedsvej 23, DK-1958 Frederiks...

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• precision agriculture (Moran et al., 1997; Gebbers and Adamchuk, 2010; Lee et al., 2010), • alerting and forecasting systems (Doraiswamy et al., 2003; Rembold et al., 2013), • sustainable resource protection (Baret et al., 2007), • ecological farming and sustainable intensification (Garnett et al., 2013), • traceability of products (Opara, 2003), • policy steering (Palm et al., 2014), • index...

Corn ethanol production is central in the United States' agrofuels initiatives. In this paper I discuss corn ethanol production in Iowa, USA and examine several dynamics: farmers' positions in agrofuel supply chains; struggles around the construction and operation of agrofuel refineries; the politics of ethanol production and regulation; and the ecological consequences of increased corn product...

Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant-pollinator communities and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation. Conversion to agriculture is destroying and degrading semi-natural ecosystems while conventional land-use intensification (e.g. industrial management of large-scale monocultures with high chemical inputs) homogenises landscape ...