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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 crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …
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the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …
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traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …-2010 data on world GDP, population, cropland and technological progress. Introducing random shocks to the evolution of total … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …
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We analyze how agricultural extension can be made more effective in terms of increasing smallholder farmers' adoption of pro-nutrition technologies, such as biofortified crops. In a randomized controlled trial with farmers in Western Kenya, we implemented several extension treatments and...
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Many of the financial and social challenges that face Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) can be addressed through more efficient and sustainable use of arable land and water resources. In recent years improvements in land and water use have come from an agricultural sector that is...
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Stickstoffemissionen aus der Landwirtschaft belasten neben anderen Stickstoffquellen Gewässer und andere Umweltmedien …In addition to other nitrogen sources, nitrogen emissions from agriculture pollute waters and other environmental media …
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Prior research shows long-run productivity growth in agriculture is associated with increases in the stock of public … productivity in agriculture. Bibliographic information identifies the nature and degree to which firms use public agricultural …
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developments in big data analytics and climate change science with agriculture can greatly accelerate agricultural research and … innovation for climate smart agriculture (CSA). CSA refers to an integrated set of technologies and practices that simultaneously … emissions from farming. It is a multistage, multiobjective, data-driven, and knowledge based approach to agriculture, with the …
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