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Biofuel-Food Market Interactions: A Review of Modeling Approaches and Findings

Oladosu, Gbadebo; Msangi, Siwa - In: Agriculture 3 (2013) 1, pp. 53-71

The interaction between biofuels and food markets remains a policy issue for a number of reasons. There is a continuing … need to understand the role of biofuels in the recent spikes in global food prices. Also, there is an ongoing discussion of … between food markets and advanced biofuels, although most of the latter are expected to be produced from non-food feedstocks …

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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 … 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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Alternative Land Management Strategies and Their Impact on Soil Conservation

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

increasing pressure for food production linked to the increasing human population, the consumption patterns in developed and … strategy considering the whole food system is required. …

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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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Provenancing Flower Bulbs by Analytical Fingerprinting: Convallaria Majalis

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 (Convallaria majalis) 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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Small Ruminant Production System Efficiency under Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Arid Land Conditions

Fathelrahman, Eihab; Sherif, Sherin; Hoag, Dana L. K. - In: Agriculture 4 (2014) 4, pp. 288-307

Sheep and goat production systems in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) operate under scarce natural resource constraints. A cross-sectional survey that covered 661 mixed farms, including major sheep and goat production, was conducted in the three regions of Abu Dhabi Emirate (Al-Ain, Western Region...

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Volatiles from the Rare Australian Desert Plant Prostanthera centralis B.J.Conn (Lamiaceae): Chemical Composition and Antimicrobial Activity

Collins, Timothy L.; Jones, Graham L.; Sadgrove, Nicholas J. - In: Agriculture 4 (2014) 4, pp. 308-316

Hydrodistilled essential oils and dichloromethane (DCM) extracted volatiles were taken from cultivated specimens of Prostanthera centralis, endemic to central Australia. All volatiles were chemically characterised by Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectroscopy (GC-MS) with the use of authentic...

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