Farms and agricultural practices
Good Agricultural Practices : audit training manual
... Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), “GAP refers to the application of practices or protocols to address environmental, economic and social sustainability for on-farm ...
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Organizational Forms and Agri-Environmental Practices: The Case of Brazilian Dairy Farms
... Sectoral and market characteristics also make it difficult to set up contractual and incentive arrangements for sharing the value-added, which could contribute to the adoption of agri-environmental ...
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Coupled effect of agricultural practices and climate on carbon storage in two contrasted permanent tropical pastures
... CONCLUSION This study was conducted in two farms in French Guiana, South America (5°16’54”N, 52°54’44”W). Mean annual rainfall is 3041 mm and mean air temperature is around 25.7 °C. The study focused on a ...
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Do short food supply chains go hand in hand with environment-friendly practices? An analysis of French farms
... environment-friendly practices are more likely to be implemented by younger producers who are furthermore better educated and claim to work more on their ...Such practices require increased ...
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Management of Amazonian grassland against weeds: biophysical conditions, agricultural practices and organization of grazing system in French Guiana
... grass), and land use ...of farms organization and functioning which resulted in coherence between facts and actions, and between the permanent constraints such as feeding system ...
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Microfinance and securing credit for family farms
... environment) and endogenous (linked to the FI ...encounter practices attempting to better coordinate the delivery of different FI operating in the same area, and methods to improve the operation ...
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Farm structures: current shaping forces and future farms
... phenomena and environmental hazards such as floods, cyclones, droughts and wildfires increase insecurity of land tenure (Reale and Handmer, ...herders and crop farmers due to the scarcity of ...
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Farmers and agronomists design new biological agricultural practices for organic cropping systems in France
... (pedoclimatic and technical constraints identified in step 5). Economic and organizational constraints were not taken into account, as they had already been consid- ered in the ...their farms, at the ...
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Spatial simulation of agricultural practices using a robust extension of randomized classification tree algorithms
... control practices classification trees In a first step, robust trees were performed on two sets of explanatory vari- ables coming from the two main sources of available data (agricultural census or ...
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ANALYTICAL DOCUMENTATION OF TRADITIONAL PRACTICES AND FARMER INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT IN TWO TRADITIONAL IRRIGATION SCHEMES IN NORTH-WEST ETHIOPIA
... informally and innovating new practices since the dawn of agriculture to adjust to their circumstances so that they can maximize or optimize benefits from the use of their natural, human and ...
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Impacts of different agricultural practices on the biodiversity of microarthropod communities in arable crop systems
... field and the diversity of microarthropod reactions to any given ...qualitative and quantitative pesti- cide differences can be observed between the systems of each field, the pesticide spraying calendar ...
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Tracing Sediment Sources in a Subtropical Agricultural Catchment of Southern Brazil Cultivated With Conventional and Conservation Farming Practices
... Although agricultural practices may directly impact soil erodibility, various other factors, directly related to the landscape conditions, may also accelerate soil erosion and sediment ...cultivation ...
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Assessment of alternative land management practices using hydrological simulation and a decision support tool: Arborea agricultural region, Sardinia.
... conceptualizing and for- malizing the problem at ...chains and the resulting indi- ...described and the cause-effect relation between the relevant socio-economic and environmental indicators ...
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EFFECTS OF AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND HEAVY METAL CONTAMINATION ON THE COMMUNITY DYNAMICS OF EARTHWORMS IN RELATION TO SOIL PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL FACTORS IN AGRICULTURAL FIELDS (BELGIUM)
... decomposition and nutrient cycling (Lemtiri et al., 2014) and play a key role in terrestrial ecotoxicological risk assessment (Sheppard et ...organisms and require toxicity ...physical and ...
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The emergence of agroecological practices on agropastoral dairy farms in the face of changing demand from dairies
... introduce practices to support family consumption and to supply the local dairies throughout the ...the practices introduced by dairy farmers through signs of quality and origin, and ...
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Functional profiles of soil microbial populations under various climatic conditions and agricultural practices in Burkina-Faso
... understanding and promoting agro-ecological practices among peasant communities in ...geochemical and microbiological characteristics of agricultural soils were investigated in order to make ...
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Long and short-term trends of stream hydrochemistry and high frequency surveys as indicators of the influence of climate change, agricultural practices and internal processes (Aurade agricultural catchment, SW France)
... A 35-year time series of nitrate concentration and discharge, a 15-year time series of major elements and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) concentrations were analysed from a yearly to a d[r] ...
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Identification and evaluation of agricultural practices that store soil carbon, a first step towards low impact agriculture
... Identification and evaluation of agricultural practices that store soil carbon, a first step towards low impact ...context and the growing need for energy and food products, linked to ...
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Peter Eisenman: Theories and Practices
... internal and close reading of his work, we have also tried to situate the devel- opment of Eisenman’s architectural and theoretical investigations with- in the larger historical, theoretical and ...
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Rethinking Observation: Challenges and Practices
... attentively and at length. In the Management and Organization Studies field, observation is also a data collection method that is frequently acknowledged as uniquely ...lytical and practical reasons: ...
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