Rural transformation is accompanied by land concentration in medium farms in countries like Kenya , Ghana , Tanzania , and Zambia . These farms are typically mechanized and owned by well-educated urban-based professionals who can be effective agents for technology adoption. These various success stories show that using agriculture for development can be done, but […]
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There is a continual gain and loss of soil C that establishes a dynamic equilibrium
It presents a detailed account of management practices to enhance soil C storage and GHG mitigation, and a meta-analysis of published appraisals in the cropping systems of South Asia.Agriculture in South Asia is predominantly cereal-based, i.e. the cultivation of about 40 million hectares with multiple cereal crops or a single cereal crop, followed by a […]
Nitrous oxide is even more effective at absorbing heat with a GWP 265 times that of CO2
These source signatures were comparable across season, particularly from manure lagoons, and were always different from one another by at least ~8‰. Additionally, isotopic signatures from CH4 hotspots observed from remote mobile surveys were consistent with on-farm isotopic signatures and captured CH4 source areas. Our downwind observations revealed that enteric fermentation derived CH4 contributed from 0 […]
Food insecurity is one major effect of such disparity in wages
A 2013 University of California, Berkeley study, for example, found that across the United States, Blacks were 52% more likely, Asian Americans 32% more likely, and Latinos/as 21% more likely to live in conditions with increased heat related risk as compared to whites. Furthermore, low-income people and people of color are also less likely to have […]
Methane emissions from dairy operations are thought to depend on the type of manure management used
The percentage of the population with income below 130% of the federal poverty line—the income limit for SNAP eligibility—increased substantially during the period of the Great Recession, from 54 million in 2007 to 60 million in 2009, and 64 million in 2011. During this period, the rate of SNAP participation rose among eligible households from […]
These patterns mirrored the effect of the housing and job crisis on people of color as well
Subsequently, under the 1938 Farm Bill, the federal government, and not a processor’s tax, would finance such subsidies, thus relieving corporations of any responsibility to maintain high commodity prices or profitable farms. Significantly, this funding structure was held in place during the shift in agricultural policy from the support of production to the support of […]
The major increase in capital recovery costs due to Prop 12 comes from fewer sows using a facility
This model incorporates segregation costs in the processing and marketing sector under regulations. The regulations of interest are imposed at the point of purchase within the regulating jurisdiction, so the identity of compliance must be preserved at all stages along the supply chain. For traceability, segregation between the restricted products and the other products is […]
All sow farms in this firm routinely applied the same commercially available modified live vaccine
Urban planners have an opportunity to address food insecurity and other urban food system challenges including production, consumption, waste management and recycling by co-creating solutions with urban farmers through participatory processes and investing in community-led solutions. In our systematic review of the literature on whether urban agriculture improves urban food security, we found three key […]
Personas typically describe representative users of a particular software system
While these may be useful in providing novice farmers with a starting point as to how to even begin putting together information regarding environmental, resource, and operational data, most of the farmers we spoke with end up restructuring their previously collected data to fit policy and/or certification requirements.The population of farm workers includes a large […]
LCI databases are built to support the data overload that occurs during the inventorying process
As some of these foods are produced primarily outside of the regions of interest in this paper , they were cross referenced with the top ten most produced agricultural commodities in each of those regions to create a list of commodities to be considered in this paper.Table 3.1 shows which of the globally most produced food and […]