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Crop and Tillage Effects on Water Productivity of Dryland Agriculture in Argentina
Noellemeyer, Elke; Fernández, Romina; Quiroga, Alberto - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 1, pp. 1-11
Rising demands for food and uncertainties about climate change call for a paradigm shift in water management with a … compared with that of CT; however, the response of cereals (corn +1.0 kg ha<sup>−1</sup> mm<sup>−1</sup>, wheat +1.3 kg ha … promising step towards improving food production in semiarid regions. …
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Functional Food and Organic Food are Competing Rather than Supporting Concepts in Europe
Kahl, Johannes; Załęcka, Aneta; Ploeger, Angelika; … - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 4, pp. 316-324
A review of recent literature pertaining to organic and functional food was conducted according its conceptual … background.<strong> </strong>Functional and organic food both belong to fast growing segments of the European food market. Both … are food according to the European food regulations, but organic food is further regulated by the European regulation for …
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Emerging Perspectives on the Natural Microbiome of Fresh Produce Vegetables
Jackson, Colin R.; Stone, Bram W. G.; Tyler, Heather L. - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 2, pp. 170-187
Plants harbor a diverse microbiome existing as bacterial populations on the leaf surface (the phyllosphere) and within plant tissues (endophytes). The composition of this microbiome has been largely unexplored in fresh produce vegetables, where studies have tended to focus on pathogen detection...
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Provenancing Flower Bulbs by Analytical Fingerprinting: <i>Convallaria Majalis</i>
Ruth, Saskia M. van; Visser, Ries de - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 1, pp. 17-29
The origin of agricultural products is gaining in appreciation while often hard to determine for various reasons. Geographical origin may be resolved using a combination of chemical and physical analytical technologies. In the present case of Lily of the Valley (<i>Convallaria majalis</i>) rhizomes, we...
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Community Perspectives on the On-Farm Diversity of Six Major Cereals and Climate Change in Bhutan
Katwal, Tirtha Bdr.; Dorji, Singay; Dorji, Rinchen; … - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 1, pp. 2-16
respondents manage and use agro-biodiversity for household food security and livelihood. The average agro-ecological richness … of the six different staple cereals under consideration. The overall loss of traditional varieties in a time period of 20 …
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Effect of Ozone Treatment on Inactivation of <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Listeria</i> sp. on Spinach
Wani, Shreya; Maker, Jagpreet K.; Thompson, Joseph R.; … - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 2, pp. 155-169
The efficacy of “gaseous” ozone in reducing numbers and re-growth of food-borne pathogens, (<i>Escherichia coli </i … customer-friendly method to reduce food pathogen contamination of leafy produce and is worth exploring on a pilot-scale in an …
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National Livestock Policy of Nepal: Needs and Opportunities
Pradhanang, Upendra B.; Pradhanang, Soni M.; Sthapit, Arhan - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 1, pp. 103-131
This paper describes Nepal’s national livestock policies and considers how they can be improved to help meet the pressing national challenges of economic development, equity, poverty alleviation, gender mainstreaming, inclusion of marginalized and underprivileged communities, and climate...
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Food Safety Information Processing and Teaching Behavior of Dietitians: A Mental Model Approach
Medeiros, Lydia C.; LeJeune, Jeffrey T. - In: Agriculture 5 (2015) 1, pp. 132-154
Health professionals play an important role in educating the public about food safety risks. However, the ways this … develop a model of factors that promote information processing and teaching in practice about food safety related to fresh … food safety. The juxtaposition of an information processing model with a behavioral model provides valuable new insights …
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Meeting the Challenges for Agriculture
Copeland, Les - In: Agriculture 1 (2011) 1, pp. 1-3
Ensuring food security is an ongoing global challenge. Many forecasts point to a need to increase food production by at … least 70% if we are to feed the world’s projected population of nine billion in 2050. Recent volatility in commodity prices … and the general upward trend in the cost of food are indicators that global food systems are now driven by demand rather …
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Soil Erosion Threatens Food Production
Pimentel, David; Burgess, Michael - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 443-463
Since humans worldwide obtain more than 99.7% of their food (calories) from the land and less than 0.3% from the oceans … welfare. Soil erosion is one of the most serious threats facing world food production. Each year about 10 million ha of … cropland are lost due to soil erosion, thus reducing the cropland available for world food production. The loss of cropland is …
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