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Impacts of urbanization on land use /cover changes and its probable implications on local climate and groundwater level
Patra, Suman; Sahoo, Satiprasad; Mishra, Pulak; … - In: Journal of Urban Management 7 (2018) 2, pp. 70-84
using remote sensing and GIS techniques. Spatiotemporal satellite images and conventional data are used to characterize the …
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Measuring rice yield from space: The case of Thai Binh Province, Viet Nam
Guan, Kaiyu; Hien, Ngo The; Li, Zhan; Rao, Lakshman Nagraj - 2018
Despite a growing interest in using satellite data to estimate paddy rice yield in Southeast Asia, significant cloud … beneficial for paddy rice mapping when compared with only using Landsat data, fusion data allows us to estimate the peak value of … also find that the L-band radar data not only has a lower performance in paddy rice mapping when compared with optical data …
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Farming and cropping systems in the West African Sudanian Savanna. WASCAL research area: Northern Ghana, Southwest Burkina Faso and Northern Benin
Callo-Concha, Daniel; Gaiser, Thomas; Ewert, Frank - 2012
Ecological fragility combined with institutional weakness and political and economic instability make West Africa one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change. The West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use (WASCAL) tackles this vulnerability by...
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Higher crop rotational diversity in more simplified agricultural landscapes in Northeastern Germany
Schiller, Josepha; Jänicke, Clemens; Reckling, Moritz; … - In: Landscape Ecology 39 (2024) 4
Both crop rotational diversity and landscape diversity are important for ensuring resilient agricultural production and supporting biodiversity and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes. However, the relationship between crop rotational diversity and landscape diversity is largely...
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Food and Horticulture Crop Productivity in Indonesia
Ruslan, Kadir - 2021
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Greenhouse gas benefits of fighting obesity
Michaelowa, Axel; Dransfeld, Björn - 2006
measures to reduce obesity could accelerate the tipping point where a majority of voters feels that the problem warrants policy …
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Macroeconomic Effects of Disruptions in Global Food Commodity Markets: Evidence for the United States
de Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans …
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Impact of agriculture credit on food production and food security in Pakistan
Asghar, Nadia; Salman, Aneel - In: Pakistan Journal of Commerce and Social Sciences (PJCSS) 12 (2018) 3, pp. 851-864
policy makers to formulate and improve food security policy by strengthening the credit markets. …
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Present practice and future prospect of rooftop farming in Dhaka city: A step towards urban sustainability
Safayet, Mastura; Arefin, Md. Faqrul; Hasan, Md. Musleh … - In: Journal of Urban Management 6 (2017) 2, pp. 56-65
Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh is one of the most populated megacity in the world and the population growth in this city is extremely high. To support growing food demand of increasing population, food supply should be secure and sustainable. On the other hand, with the pace of urbanization...
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E-Agriculture: Montenegro Case
Coric, Davor; Popovic, Milos - 2015
The use of information technology in the field of agriculture is one of the biggest challenges in the field of agriculture in economic transition in Montenegro. Montenegrin society has made significant progress in the development of agriculture, but there are difficulties in the implementation...
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