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Organic cultivation systems may provide beneficial solutions to current problems affecting the soil microbiome
SDSS for agricultural applications is quite complex; it requires knowledge from various multidisciplinary areas, such as crop agronomy, computer hardware and software, mathematics, and statistics. For example, to understand crop growth, it is necessary to know how many variables affect crop growth, how each variable affects crop growth? Each crop requires a different optimum value…
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Fields were subdivided into plots if several crops or intercropping patterns were found in one field
The rationale behind selecting the case studies was to cover the relevant agroecological , agronomic and commercial contexts in which organic agriculture is implemented in SSA. Kenya and Ghana were selected as focal countries for the following reasons: i) in both countries, there is a substantial share of area under organic agriculture, ii) the existence of organic…
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The issue of the profitability of farming is significant in terms of distributive justice
Nonetheless, Valio, for instance, is doing a lot of work to identify better methods for the use of agricultural peatlands. Ultimately, however, public policy guidance is urgently needed. According to our study, the key justice issues in the transition to carbon-neutral farming relate to the profitability of farming, the distribution of blame in society, and…
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We relate proximity measures to likelihoods to indicate the approximative nature of our approach
Resilience attributes that were discussed in most case studies were “Infrastructure for innovation”, and “Production coupled with local and natural capital”. Resilience attributes related to diversity, policies or connection with actors outside the farming system were least discussed. In SE-Poultry and PL-Horticulture the “Functional diversity” and “Response diversity” was emphasized. In DE-Arable&Mixed, RO-Mixed and to…
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Discussions of smart farming tend to have specific technical developments in mind
Nevertheless, one should be cautious with generalising ResAT findings of a single farming system case. We reason that the CAP’s resilience-enhancing or resilience constraining capabilities are very dependent on the farming system’s characteristics, such as its functions, its regional context and the specific challenges that it faces . For instance, De Veenkoloni¨en faces challenges that are…
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Evidence on credit constraints and production efficiency is equally strong
The contract included all the attributes of T2 and added the provision of inputs, on loan, from ESOP. The contract stipulated the amount of seed and fertilizer to be provided as well as the price for the inputs. At the end of the season, the total cost of inputs provided would be deducted from the price paid…
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Agriculture used traditional techniques for cultivation of crops
Two-step cluster analysis suggested four clusters, and the flexibility of this method allowed us to explore cluster solutions from three up to seven. We decided to retain four-cluster solution because cluster solutions above four were not excellent, as they had overall silhouette measures of cluster cohesion and separation values of ≤ 0.7 . The sample size,…
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Strong and extremely strong erosion had been successfully controlled for these land use types
Soil background and vegetation cover were other factors studied in this research, which also often have a high impact on the quality of image analysis , mainly in traditional pixel-based classifications. On the one hand, the OBIA4tillage procedure was insensitive to soil hue, reporting similar good results for both clear and dark soils . On…
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The role of agrobiodiversity in providing pest control has been controversial for a long time
Local-field agrobiodiversity had a negative effect on pollination potential, while local-field agrobiodiversity, pollination and pest control potentials had a positive influence on cereal production . These effects were significant except for the effect of pest control potential, which was marginally significant . As a result, farming intensity had both a positive direct effect on cereal…
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The threats to the sector can be perceived as a threat to the very identity of beef farmers
The smaller key actors, including BPM, also noted the problem of uncertainty, but this wasn’t the main issue for them; unfair value chains was the important problem to them within the distributive frame. Mapping key actor narratives to the just transition frames highlights the mismatch in how beef farmers and key actors assess the current…