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Anti-Obesity Effect of Nepetae spica Extract in High-Fat Mice

Roh, Changhyun; Park, Min-Kyoung; Shin, Hee-June; Kim, Insub - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 3, pp. 204-210

In recent years, obesity is the most common metabolic disease emerging as a global problem especially in developed nations. The discovery of bioactive compounds from natural plant extracts is one possible way to control obesity and prevent or reduce the risks of getting various obesity-related...

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Biofuel and Food-Commodity Prices

Hochman, Gal; Kaplan, Scott; Rajagopal, Deepak; … - In: Agriculture 2 (2012) 3, pp. 272-281

–2008, its effect on food-commodity prices declined after the recession of 2008/09. We also show that the introduction of cross …, and identifies gaps between two bodies of literature: one that investigates the relationship between food and fuel prices …, and another that investigates the impact of the introduction of biofuels on commodity-food prices. The former body of …

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Potential Nutritional Benefits of Current Citrus Consumption

Turner, Tami; Burri, Betty J. - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 1, pp. 170-187

Citrus contains nutrients and phytochemicals that may be beneficial for health. We collected citrus production and consumption data and estimated the amount of these compounds that are consumed. We then compared the amounts of citrus and citrus-derived compounds used in studies that suggest a...

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Sample Size Requirements for Assessing Statistical Moments of Simulated Crop Yield Distributions

Lehmann, Niklaus; Finger, Robert; Klein, Tommy; … - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 2, pp. 210-220

Mechanistic crop growth models are becoming increasingly important in agricultural research and are extensively used in climate change impact assessments. In such studies, statistics of crop yields are usually evaluated without the explicit consideration of sample size requirements. The purpose...

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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 and aquatic ecosystems, preserving cropland and maintaining soil fertility should be of the highest importance to human welfare. Soil erosion is one of the most serious threats...

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Alternative Land Management Strategies and Their Impact on Soil Conservation

Gomiero, Tiziano - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 464-483

Soil conservation is threatened by a number of factors, namely the effects of intensive agricultural practices, the increasing pressure for food production linked to the increasing human population, the consumption patterns in developed and emerging economies, and the conversion of agriculture...

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Productive Efficiency of Potato and Melon Growing Farms in Uzbekistan: A Two Stage Double Bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis

Karimov, Aziz - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 3, pp. 503-515

This article is one of the first to carry out a non-parametric efficiency analysis of crop production in Uzbekistan. The study applies the bootstrap Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute bias corrected technical efficiency (TE) scores using a sample of farms located in two regions of...

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A case of integration of organic dairy sheep farm in value chains in Bulgaria

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper presents the state of integration of small scale dairy farms in value chains in Bulgaria and a case study on organic farming as a new prospective approach for market inclusion. It outlines the evolution of dairy sheep farming and organic production; analyzes the pace, factors and...

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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

Subsistence Bhutanese farmers spread across different agro-ecological zones maintain large species and varietal diversity of different crops in their farm. However, no studies have been undertaken yet to assess why farmers conserve and maintain large agro-biodiversity, the extent of...

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