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The study aimed to know how an emerging economys thriving business industry deals with disruptive innovation (DI) from an emerging economys technically complicated inland open dairy industry perspective. The study used inductive qualitative case research techniques. Twenty-three dairy owners, managers, veterinary doctors, and farmers were purposefu...
Moral arguments against the consumption of animal products from factory farms are traditionally categorical. The conclusions require people to eliminate from their diets all animal products (veganism), all animal flesh (vegetarianism), all animals except seafood (pescetarianism), etc. An alternative "reducetarian" approach prescribes progressive re...
This book analyses how the polarisation between cosmopolitan and parochial identity discourses drives the current political polarisation. The anti-urban backlash of the populists is the most visible expression of this. This book analyses how the divergent valuation of and conflicts over iconic places at different spatial scales institutionalise the...
This report explores how exposure to psychosocial risk affects farmers and farm workers. Research and interviews with sector stakeholders underline risks such as high workload, social isolation, demographic factors and increasing administrative burdens as agriculture transforms.
A comprehensive set of international good practices highlight measure...
Detachment of mobile lice from salmon during crowding and handling procedures in sea-cage fish farms may lead to loss and unwanted spread of ectoparasitic sea lice to other cages, farms or wild fish. However, rates of detachment and loss of lice during crowding are not well understood. We conducted a series of replicate crowding events in 125-2000...
The Common Agricultural Policy 2023–2027 encourages the transition towards sustainable agriculture in line with the goals of the European Green Deal. Agroecology is gaining recognition as a valuable approach to enhance the sustainability of faming systems. However, there is limited understanding of the status quo of the farming systems and their re...
This study evaluates the performance of various wind turbine models for different regions of Mauritania, focusing on offshore and onshore sites, considering wind speed data from four locations, Nouakchott, Nouadhibou, Aleg, and an offshore area near Nouakchott, over four years (2021-2024). Three turbine models XEMC Ltd XE93, Ecotecnia ECO80, and Si...
As offshore wind energy development continues to expand globally, precise wind resource assessment is essential for the effective deployment of offshore wind farms. This study provides a comprehensive analysis of sea breeze characteristics over the southeastern coast of China, focusing on the coastal region of Shantou, Guangdong Province. Field mea...
The oscillating water column (OWC) is a type of wave energy converter (WEC) that captures the energy of incoming waves. As waves reach the structure, their movement causes the water within an enclosed chamber to oscillate, creating airflow that powers a turbine, generating electricity. This principle can be applied to the design of breakwaters, whi...
UAV spraying in Europe is constrained by regulation despite this technology's potential to reduce the impact of pesticide use on the environment and human health. The implications of current EU regulation were investigated by modelling UAV spraying in Greek viticulture. Profitability of UAV spraying was 6% and 5% lower than conventional spraying on...
Controlling the healthfulness of breeding sows is one of the most critical factors in pig breeding farms since, throughout the production process, the sows show continuous changes in their general condition due to motherhood. However, the existing approaches for estimating sows body condition are mostly manual and of low precision, which limit its...
Soil provides ecosystem services critical for life; a healthy soil is key to a vibrant agriculture, clean water and air, and provides a home to microorganisms that play a fundamental role in all ecosystems. Regardless of where one lives in the world, the crops produced, the farming systems employed or the size and scale of farms, whether he lives o...
Agricultural land abandonment occurs when a certain crop or pasture area ceases to be used and begins the process of ecological succession. This phenomenon can be driven by factors such as depletion of natural resources, land conflicts, and lack of governmental support for the continuity of production. Matopiba, a region encompassing four Brazilian...
Embryo transfer (ET) presents promising opportunities for enhancing dairy production in small-scale farms in Rwanda. This study evaluated the success rates of ET interventions in both on-station and on-farm settings. Conducted in 2018 to 2019, the research involved 26 superovulated embryo donor cows and 208 recipient females (181 cows and 27 heifer...
Climate change necessitates the re-evaluation of viticultural practices to manage increasing grape sugar concentrations and meet consumer demand for lower-alcohol wines. This study aimed to evaluate whether modifying the leaf area to fruit weight (LA:FW) ratio through shoot trimming could reduce sugar accumulation while maintaining phenolic quality...
The yield of agricultural crops is significantly influenced by climatic factors. This impact has been intensified as a result of rapid changes in agroclimatic indicators. These factors are constantly changing. Climate indicators such as temperature, precipitation amount and distribution, snowfall amount and duration, have shown significant changes...
Agricultural ponds are biodiversity hotspots, especially when restored to open‐canopy conditions. Studies comparing pre‐ and post‐restoration pond diversity are rare, however, and have widely focused on “easy‐to‐identify” taxa. Chironomids have so far been neglected in pond restoration studies, but are a highly speciose group critical to aquatic ec...
Background
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV) persists on certain farms despite vaccination and control efforts, with genetic diversity suspected as a contributing factor. This study examined the evolution and persistence dynamics of PRRSV-1 on a farrow-to-fattening farm with 1,700 sows vaccinated quarterly, focusing on a s...
Short-term wind speed prediction plays a vital role in wind power generation, which has a significant impact on dispatching and operation decisions. However, the hourly wind speed time series exhibits the feature of high intermittency and high fluctuation, limiting the forecasting performance and timeliness. Therefore, the novel intelligent hybrid...
Environmental magnetism, with its advantages of speed, sensitivity, cost-effectiveness, and harmlessness, has extensive applications in various fields such as environmental science, climate research, and soil science. However, studies on the magnetism of agricultural are limited. This study conducted magnetic investigations on 21 agricultural soil...
In the six months since the March 11 earthquake tsunami and nuclear power meltdown, a large body of evidence has been produced (and much suppressed) documenting the vast quantities of radiation emitted from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as well as other contaminants from ruined factories and farms: into the air, into the water, and into...
Since their emergence in Guangdong, China, in 1996, Gs/GD H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses (HPAIVs) have diversified into multiple clades, spreading globally through wild bird migrations and causing substantial losses in poultry and wildlife. In South Korea, HPAIVs, including H5N1, H5N8, and H5N6 subtypes, have been repeatedly introduce...
This study investigates gender-based differences in eco-efficiency among Hungarian field crop farms, using data from the Farm Accountancy Data Network between 2015 and 2020. Applying Data Envelopment Analysis and Blinder-Oaxaca decompositions, we reveal a consistent eco-efficiency advantage for women-headed farms, particularly at mid-quantiles of e...
This article looks at the conditions and challenges for immigrant Latinx workers and farmers in accessing farmland in the United States. As white farmers retire in large numbers, and competing interests look to buy up swaths of American farmland for consolidation, investment, and development, newer groups of farmers struggle with finding and purcha...
The bovine respiratory disease complex causes significant morbidity and mortality with aetiological agents known to contribute to its development including several bacteria and viruses. In Albania there is limited information on the prevalence or genetic makeup of viral bovine respiratory disease complex pathogens, which limits mitigation strategie...
Considering that control strategies for Equine Infectious Anemia, based on the serological diagnosis of equids and the removal of positive animals, may not be optimal for developing countries with an absolute predominance of grade working animals, this study aimed to address this issue based on the epidemiological situation of the disease in Pará,...
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has incorporated climate change action and environmental care in addition to traditional goals aimed at enhancing farmers’ incomes. However, such a policy is not free from drawbacks and limitations, which limit its internal coherence and external credibility. In this paper, we focus on decoupled direct payments...
Wake steering is a wind farm control strategy where the yaw angle of turbines is intentionally misaligned with the incoming wind direction to deflect the wake in such a way as to increase the power production from the downstream turbines in exchange for producing less power in the upstream turbines. This paper presents a Deep Reinforcement Learning...
Improving sustainability on US dairy farms has become a critical focus across the industry. As dairy farms continue to consolidate, there is a growing need to identify scalable, implementable soil health management practices that enhance environmental sustainability in the fields managed by the dairy. This paper examines the constraints on dairy fo...
CONTEXT In Germany, peatlands drained for agriculture cause more than 40 Mio. t CO2 equiv. per year, which accounts for 44 % of all agricultural emissions. Because of their high mitigation potential, they are becoming increasingly important for EU agricultural policy and Germany’s national mitigation efforts.
OBJECTIVE Our work investigates how fa...
Automatic field irrigation through soil image analysis represents a sophisticated advancement in agricultural technology, leveraging computer vision and machine learning to optimize water application. By capturing and analyzing soil images, the system evaluates key parameters such as moisture content, texture, and color to precisely determine irrig...
Agriculture in Japan suffers from a wide range of problems, including a low food self-sufficiency rate of only 41% and an inflexible farmland market. Rather than seriously tackling these problems, the Japanese government has chosen to compensate farmers through import restrictions, subsidies and price supports. These measures, aimed at addressing t...
Accurate estimation of evapotranspiration (ET) and its components is challenging in semi-arid rain-fed farmlands because of the complicated interactions among vegetation, soil, and water conditions. In this study, three stomatal conductance models were used to refine the canopy stomatal conductance in the Shuttleworth-Wallace (SW) model. The model...
This study investigates the reproductive viability of Russian sturgeon (Acipenser gueldenstaedtii) in aquaculture settings, focusing on the impact of maturation timing on breeding success and reproductive performance. Hormone-induced spawning was employed, and gamete quality was evaluated to compare two distinct maturation groups: Early-Maturing (E...
Dispersal by waterbirds and wild mammals is known to be important for maintaining biodiversity among wetlands. Cattle are known to be important seed dispersers in terrestrial habitats; however, the role of cattle in plant dispersal among wetlands is poorly known. We analyzed the potential for the dispersal of aquatic plants (seeds, diaspores and wh...
Precision livestock farming technologies support health monitoring on farms, yet few studies have evaluated their effectiveness under field conditions using reliable gold standards. This study evaluated a commercially available technology for detecting cough sounds in pigs on a commercial farm. Audio was recorded over six days using 16 microphones...
Over the past two decades, the world of investing has transformed more radically than at any point in modern history. From the steady rise of gold and farmland to the digital explosion of AI equities and cryptocurrencies, asset classes have diverged—not only in performance, but in meaning. Some assets grew by reinforcing trust (gold, farmland), whi...
The article presents data on the economically useful traits of Ukrainian Black-and-White dairy cows bred in farms located in different climatic zones of Ukraine, namely: LLC SP "Imeni Volovikova " Rivne region (Polissya zone, n =1840), SE DH " Olexandrivske " Vinnytsia region (Forest-Steppe zone, n =714) and SE "Research Farm "Askaniyske" (Steppe z...
In recent years, climate change and economic crises have challenged the
agricultural sector, prompting farmers to explore more resilient and
profitable alternatives. Medicinal and aromatic plants (MAPs) have emerged
as promising crops due to their adaptability and high market value. However,
analyzing the sector remains complex because of diverse u...
Resource-intensive cities face significant ecological challenges due to mining activities, which degrade landscapes, pollute ecosystems, and disrupt ecological security patterns. This study proposes a process for identifying ecological security patterns (ESP) in mining cities, integrating landscape risk assessment, remote sensing ecological quality...
Cities can support diverse wild bee communities through managed green spaces. Urban farms, specifically, provide important habitat and resources for wild bee communities in cities. However, the influence of urbanization on specific crop-pollinating bee communities has received little attention. Here we examined how urbanization influences squash-po...
Two major interventions, PASAGAR and integrated REDD, aimed at promoting the sustainable management and development of the Luki Biosphere Reserve were implemented between 2013 and 2018. Despite their support, local communities living in and around this reserve continue to face poverty and biodiversity loss, which continues to threaten the stability...
Streptococcus suis is a major bacterial pathogen in the swine industry, causing meningitis, arthritis, and other diseases in infected pigs. It also poses significant public health risks due to its zoonotic potential, particularly in individuals with skin lesions. Current detection methods, including traditional culture-based techniques and PCR assa...
Farmlands are emerging as a crucial landscape for sequestering carbon, while trees acting as a natural carbon vault that capture and store atmospheric carbon dioxide in biomass and soil. Understanding the potential of trees in sequestering carbon is essential for assessing their role in climate resilience and sustainable management practices. This...
Background: Urban expansion exerts substantial pressures on peri-urban agriculture, including land reduction, resource competition, and environmental externalities, necessitating adaptive strategies such as farm diversification. Despite its role in enhancing resilience and sustainability, there is a paucity of research that simultaneously explores...
This article examines the system of anti-epizootic measures implemented on a mink farm to minimize the risks of infectious disease spread and improve veterinary control. Effective biosecurity management is a key factor in ensuring production stability, enhancing animal productivity, and reducing economic losses due to disease outbreaks. The study w...
CONTEXT
Collaborative agreements for manure management would enable intensive and specialized livestock farms to expand the agricultural area available for manure distribution by transporting manure to arable farms, thus increasing nitrogen and carbon recycling, reducing environmental pollution and decreasing farms' dependence on external inputs. T...
With the acceleration of urban industrialization and urbanization processes, land use patterns have undergone significant changes. In Northern Anhui, a typical region where agriculture and industry intersect, land use modifications exert a particularly significant influence on carbon sequestration capacities. However, research into how land use tra...
Sugarcane plantations in sugar factories and farms have the potential to significantly influence local ecosystems and communities, leading to deforestation, degradation of soil quality, and reduced availability of water resources. This study aimed to determine the effect of the Arjo-Dhidhessa sugar factory on land use and land cover change in the e...
The study aimed to investigate the assessment of farm profiles, knowledge gain, and adoption behaviours of biosecurity practices following a training intervention in commercial poultry farms in Tamil Nadu. A total of 89 farmers from commercial desi (32), layer (30), and broiler (27) farms participated in the training program. The biosecurity assess...
The Athel (Tamarix aphylla) tree is a blessed tree mentioned in the Holy Quran as one of the paradise trees that were given to the Yemeni people and the Sheba kingdom in substitution of much more superior paradise trees. These trees are propagated vegetatively and utilised as windbreaks in desert horticulture farms to protect trees from the hot des...
Industri peternakan ayam potong di Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara memiliki peran penting dalam pemenuhan kebutuhan makanan, khususnya dalam penyediaan protein hewani bagi masyarakat. Namun, distribusinya sering mengalami kendala akibat minimnya informasi mengenai lokasi peternakan, sehingga pembeli dan pemasok hanya terbatas pada sumber tertentu. Hal...
The invasive spotted wing Drosophila (SWD) represents new challenges for European and North American fruit producers. The aim of our study was to examine wine grape cultivar susceptibility to this pest and melanogaster-type Drosophila (MTD) by surveying drosophilid populations using field traps and conducting emergence tests. We assessed fly develo...
Organisms do not only use personal but also social information for habitat selection. However, the use and relative importance of these two sources of information for settlement decisions remain unclear for many species. Conservation tools that attract target species to available or restored habitat rely on social information, while additional or i...
Introduction
Image instance segmentation is essential for plant phenotyping in vertical farms, yet the diversity of plant types and limited annotated image data constrain the performance of traditional supervised techniques. These challenges necessitate a zero-shot approach to enable segmentation without relying on specific training data for each p...
Sugarcane plantations in sugar factories and farms have the potential to significantly influence local ecosystems and communities, leading to deforestation, degradation of soil quality, and reduced availability of water resources. This study aimed to determine the effect of the Arjo-Dhidhessa sugar factory on land use and land cover change in the e...
Climate fluctuations have made it increasingly difficult for growers to maintain the quality and quantity of their grain to a degree that is satisfactory to buyers. Challenges for growers are preharvest sprouting (PHS) and late‐maturity alpha‐amylase (LMA), which are influenced by weather and genetic differences between varieties. Both lead to the...
As a considerable number of operational wind farms worldwide approach their end‐of‐life (EOL), critical decisions regarding their future will need to be made, including whether to repower, life‐extend, or decommission wind turbine assets. To aid in derisking this process and provide necessary information for EOL decision‐making and asset management...
Introduction: Farm workers are one of the subpopulations with poor progress toward the 95-95-95 targets in South Africa. The transient nature of farm workers results in treatment disruptions and affects the continuity of care. This study aimed to explore program implementers’ and program experts’ perspectives on the challenges and opportunities in...
Increased CH4 emissions from rewetted organic soils can undermine the climate benefits of reduced CO2 release. This is especially problematic in low-lying areas that tend to remain waterlogged and act as potential CH4 hotspots. Here we test whether burning the soil surface before rewetting can reduce CH4 emissions. Using laboratory experiments with...
Future inverter-based resources (IBRs) must provide grid-forming functionalities to compensate for the declining share of conventional synchronous machines (SMs) in the power generation mix. Specifically, decreasing power system inertia poses a significant challenge to grid frequency stability, as system inertia limits the rate of change of frequen...
Farmland transfer is an important land policy for reducing agricultural fragmentation and improving land use efficiency. Many studies have investigated the driving forces of farmland transfer at the farmers’ scale. However, the overall spatial distribution and driving mechanisms of farmland transfer at the county scale has been less quantified. In...
The small ruminant sector is traditional for many regions in Europe, with effects on European agricultural outcomes and significant economic, social, and ecological implications. The article proposes an assessment of the sheep and goat sector at both the European and Romanian levels, analyzing the main trends, challenges, and development opportunit...
CONTEXT: There is a growing interest in investments in technology that can help farms to become fossil-free, without compromising their economic incentives, and while significantly reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Biogas is an interesting technology in this respect, however, the possible farm-level economic impacts from investing in a bioga...
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular protozoan parasite which affects humans and a wide range of animals. The aim of this study was to investigate the seroprevalence of T. gondii in domestic birds from family farms in north central Algeria. Blood samples of 121 chickens, 14 geese and 7 ducks were collected and examined for the presence of...
Documentation protocols and certification in natural agriculture play a crucial role in ensuring that farming practices are sustainable, environmentally friendly, and ethically sound. These protocols involve comprehensive record-keeping systems that track various aspects of farm management, including soil health, crop rotation, input usage, pest co...
Background
Meadow fescue (Schedonorus pratensis (Huds.) P. Beauv.) is a reemerging pasture grass for temperate regions of North America. One disadvantage of this species is its lack of tolerance to frequent defoliation at low residual sward heights. This experiment was designed to conduct one cycle of selection and evaluation for persistence under...
Global agriculture faces an urgent challenge: to produce 50–100% more food by 2050 amid shrinking resources and escalating climate threats. Long regarded as slow to adopt new technologies, the sector now stands at a pivotal crossroads, fueled by the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI). At the University of Florida, significant...
Dairy cattle production is an integral economic activity in the central and Rift Valley parts of Kenya, but is characterized by low milk productivity mainly due to non-optimization of operational activities in the dairy farms. Therefore, the main objective of this study is to examine the factors influencing the optimization of dairy farm operations...
Version 3, submitted to journal 2nd May 2025. In review. ABSTRACT: Solar control of global warming and cooling (Svensmark Theory) is supported by the resemblance between two published graphs: average global near-surface air temperature for the last 9,000 years (from proxies and, since 1880, thermometers); and solar-magnetic output. Graph-to-graph v...
Intensive livestock farming has become a significant contributor to environmental pollution, particularly through the mismanagement of waste generated in animal husbandry. This study explores waste management practices in livestock farms as a viable solution to mitigate environmental degradation. Utilizing qualitative methods and literature review,...
Despite the crucial role of river-transported nutrients in supporting floodplain agriculture, their economic value remains largely unrecognized in Tanzania, as they are often perceived as free public goods not traded in markets. As a result, their value is overlooked in agricultural production decisions, leading to the overexploitation of floodplai...
Annotation: Antibiotic residues can lead to the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and the loss of their ability to be controlled. The study's goal was to determine the level of bacterial contamination and antibiotic residues in raw milk from a few private farms in Iraq's Al-Diwaniyah province. The raw milk of 120 cattle was aseptically o...
Cattle face recognition technology holds significant potential in applications such as livestock insurance, traceability, and real-time monitoring. However, existing methods predominantly focus on single-breed identification, limiting their applicability in multi-breed farms and complex scenarios. This paper proposes an innovative multi-breed cattl...
This study investigates the source, environmental impact, and health risks of potentially toxic metal(loid)s (PTMs) in agricultural soil from the Al Lith area along the Red Sea coast in Saudi Arabia. Soil samples were collected from 25 farms and analyzed using inductively coupled plasma–atomic emission spectrometry. Various indices were used to ass...
In recent decades, plant-based sensors have been increasingly used to monitor plant water status, detecting water stress and improving irrigation scheduling. Among these sensors, microtensiometer (MT) continuously measures trunk water potential (TWP) supporting real-time monitoring of TWP and in turn plant water need assessment. However, MT respons...
Після смерті Дж. Говарда у 1790 р., неподалік Херсона, на березі балки Веревчиної встановили цегляний пам’ятник-обеліск на кубічній основі, оточений кам’яними стовпами з чавунними ланцюгами. Першим мандрівником, який відвідав його у 1797 р., був австрієць Б. Гакет, але описи та малюнок Р. Хербера і Е. Кларка 1800 і 1806 рр. значно відоміші. Тоді ж...
Riverine flooding is associated with not only displacement of people but also loss of property and lives in the lower course of rivers. However, there is a dearth of literature on land use and land cover within flood risk zones and safe zones within the Western Region in Kenya. Using Landsat Satellite Images and household survey, this study aimed a...
Maritime transport plays an essential role in the EU economy and is one of the most energy-efficient modes of transport. Nevertheless, it is as well a large and growing source of greenhouse gas emissions. Consequently, the use of alternative carbon-neutral propellants in shipping must be investigated and promoted.
Green methanol is a promising cand...
Intensive agriculture and increasingly homogeneous agricultural landscapes are major drivers of biodiversity loss. The implementation of landscape features (e.g. hedges, trees, and field margins) as part of ecological focus areas on farms is a promising approach. This study aims to fill the gaps in understanding the influence of factors related to...
This study was conducted to assess the progression of deltamethrin resistance in Rhipicephalus (B.) microplus populations over a 5-year period, from 2019 to 2023, on selected communal farms in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Ticks were collected from three communal farms with a documented history of deltamethrin resistance in R. (B.) micro...
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji implementasi kebijakan perlindungan lahan pertanian pangan berkelanjutan di Kabupaten Jember, dengan fokus khusus pada Kecamatan Pakusari. Kebijakan ini penting untuk memastikan ketahanan pangan, kelestarian lingkungan, dan kesejahteraan petani. Menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif deskriptif dengan metode studi...
This paper presents an analysis of the area dependency of power and capacity density of wind farms, based on derivations of the available energy in the atmosphere and data on the power production of existing wind farms in the North Sea. The amount of available energy is determined by the mechanical energy budget of the atmospheric boundary layer an...
The Małopolskie and Podkarpackie provinces in Poland are characterized by many small farms with many small, scattered fields. This farm structure is labeled “agrarian fragmentation”. Using digital technologies in such small farm areas is usually a challenge. However, there are several digital technologies that, with minimal financial investment, ca...
Aphelenchus avenae Bastian 1865,and Aphelenchoides clarus Thorne and Malek, 1968, and Aphelenchoides sacchari Hooper 1958 are mycophagous nematodes belonging to the Aphelenchida order. These nematodes are highly distributed in vineyards in Turkey. In this study, the reproduction potential of these three nematodes was determined under in-vitro condi...
Terminalia brownii is a multi-purpose tree used to treat bacterial, fungal, and allergic infections and malarial diseases. T. brownii is over utilized for fumigation purposes and for an income source illegally cut from the wild and in all its growing areas. However, the T. brownii overutilization with sustainable use interplay within the resource p...
Ice accretion on wind turbine blades severely impacts the power generation efficiency, equipment lifespan, and safe operation of wind farms. Low‐interfacial toughness materials have demonstrated potential for large‐scale deicing under controlled laboratory conditions. However, their anti‐icing and deicing performance in complex and harsh natural fi...
The present study was conducted in Banaskantha, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar district of North Gujarat. Ex-post facto was the research design. For the present study randomly selected six talukas, eighteen villages and 180 respondents constituted the sample size. The research study was under taken with broad objective to assess the profitability in d...
Objective
This paper assesses the economic profitability of vertical farms producing microgreens. The study aims to estimate the financial sustainability of this class of farming systems, by classifying the most impacting costs for this sector, and if they are suitable in the Italian territory.
Methods
The study is performed by comparing key perfo...
Given the multiple challenges agriculture faces today, approaches that ensure both food security and the sustainable use of agroecosystems are urgently needed. The concept of community supported agriculture (CSA) is a promising attempt to address all three sustainability dimensions, but empirical research is still limited. Energy efficiency of farm...
Over the last decades, climate change has been playing an increasingly significant role in humanity and has greatly affected world wine-producing regions. There are already remarkable changes in wine production (for example, plantation of new heat-tolerant grape varieties, growing wine grape varieties in cool climates, and expanding vineyards in co...
To mitigate biodiversity loss from agriculture, intensification is often promoted as an alternative to farmland expansion. However, its local impacts remain debated. We assess globally the responses of three biodiversity metrics—species richness, total abundance and relative community abundance-weighted average range size (RCAR), a proxy for biotic...
Ovine anaplasmosis is an emerging disease in Europe, mainly in Mediterreanean region, caused by Anaplasma ovis, a bacterium primarily transmitted by ticks. Despite its widespread occurrence, comprehensive research on its distribution across Europe remains limited. This epidemiological study aimed to investigate the prevalence of A. ovis in sheep fa...
Methane (CH4) emissions from dairy farming are a significant but under-quantified component of agricultural greenhouse gases. This study provides a satellite-based assessment of dairy-specific methane emissions across Canada using high-resolution Sentinel-5P TROPOMI data. By integrating spatial clustering of 1,701 dairy farms and processors, a quas...
Sunda Kecil is an area that has potential for farming. Most farms in this region are still traditional. Along with economic development policies, investment has begun to target farms in Sunda Kecil. When this article was written, research discussing the commodification of traditional farms in Sunda Kecil did not exist because most studies only focu...
The aim of this study is the review and analysis of the situation in the size of the utilised agricultural area (UAA) between two important statistical researches (2012 and 2023) in the Republic of Serbia. Based on the analysis, the average size of an agricultural holding is 6.4 ha, it raises one head of cattle, 5 heads of pigs, 3 sheep, 43 heads o...