The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive...

Land degradation is a global problem affecting negatively the livelihoods and food security of billions of people, especially farmers and pastoralists in the developing countries. Eradicating extreme poverty without adequately addressing land degradation is highly unlikely. Given the importance...

The importance of soybeans derives from the multiple uses in the human nutrition, animal feeding, industry, but also as a plant that improves the physical properties of the soil by improving the soil in nitrogen. Regardless of the use of practical cultures, for obtaining high yield in terms of...

Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) represent 22% of global greenhouse gas emissions. To meet the objectives of the Paris Agreement, the AFOLU sector greenhouse gases must be dramatically reduced and eventually transformed to net negative CO2e within this century. The...

According to the General Agricultural Census the agricultural area utilized in agriculture consist 1.941.400 ha. At the same time, abandoned agricultural area was 246.900 ha, of which 60.600 ha, or 24.5%, belonging firms and 186.300 ha, or 75.5% - individual persons. Neglected land is abandoned...

This paper aims to address the problem of achieving soybean production and how technological factors influence the realization of production. Was choosing the most efficient technological variants of crop. We compared in the experiment realized at ARDS Turda how the two systems works: classic...

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the soybean yield obtained from the application of the minimum tillage system compared to the classical tillage system. Conservative tillage systems have become an important part of agriculture, and the need to apply these systems is justified by the...

The issue of ecosystem services is a relatively new concept in economic theory. This is the concept considered problematic, due to the difficulty of defining the benefits provided to people by ecosystems and their measurement and valuation. Some of these services are strongly associated with...

This research paper uses a systematic mapping protocol to explore the quantity of existing evidences that deals with large scale land investments and land markets. The results show that between 2010 and 2017, the number of peer-reviewed research articles that deal with large scale land...