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The pandemic caused by novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is generating a high number of cases and deaths, with negative effects on public health and economic systems. One of the current questions in the contemporary environmental and sustainability debate is how high air pollution and...
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The paper retraces the implementation of a biogas energy programme within the Best Ray project run in Tanzania 2008–2011. The objective of the Best Ray project was to empower rural communities by providing them with modern and renewable energy technologies to better tackle Millennium...
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Energy security is an increasingly important issue for East Asia Summit (EAS) countries. The Cebu declaration on East Asia Energy Security provides a common ground towards improving energy security. However, EAS countries are in a different situation and face different challenges. This leads to...
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The eutrophication of surface waters has become an endemic global problem. Nutrient loadings from agriculture are a … ecosystems and a viable agriculture. Our analysis shows that nutrient loss from agriculture is a challenging issue if farm … and recover these nutrients. Agriculture’s impact on eutrophication risk may also be overestimated in many catchments, and …
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the current and future productivity and profitability of Australian agriculture. Current agricultural production is … susceptibility to erosion and thus limit the ability of agriculture to advance without further improving soil management practices … plans that engage science and agriculture to develop practices that simultaneously increase productivity and improve soil …
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possible in certain areas of the world, depending on climatic conditions. Current knowledge and prospects for future agronomic … explored, whilst taking into account the constraints of both the current world economic situation and the environment. <strong></strong> …
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Stand-alone environmental indicators based on life cycle assessment (LCA), such as the carbon footprint and water footprint, are becoming increasingly popular as a means of directing sustainable production and consumption. However, individually, these metrics violate the principle of LCA known...
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Smallholders in the global South are confronted with new opportunities and risks emanating from globalized markets of agricultural goods. In Kenya, large-scale export-oriented horticulture farms, cultivating fruits, flowers and vegetables, were by and large established in the 1980s. In Laikipia...
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This study applied a broad continuum of risk analysis methods including mean-variance and coefficient of variation (CV) statistical criteria, second-degree stochastic dominance (SSD), stochastic dominance with respect to a function (SDRF), and stochastic efficiency with respect to a function...
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environmentally sustainable agriculture. This is agriculture that makes efficient use of natural resources and does not degrade the … environmental scientists with direct involvement or expertise in the environmental sustainability of agriculture. The practitioners … long list of 264 knowledge needs to help enhance the environmental sustainability of agriculture within the UK or for the …
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