The discontent with the undemocratic agricultural food system inspired the emergence of many alternative agri-food systems, including organic agriculture. This study analysed how organic agriculture promotes agri-food system democracy concerning traditio
Furthermore, earlier studies have estimated irrigation energy consumption and GHG emissions specifically from irrigation in China21, India22, the Mediterranean region23, Pakistan24, and the United States25. However, there is a notable gap in studies providing global coverage of energy-related GHG emis...
Thereby, the case studies used cover a wide range of geographical backgrounds from the Global South and North such as Pakistan (Waseem and Breuste), Sri Lanka (Dissanayake and Dilini), China (Liu), Spain (Breuste and Hufnagl), Italy (La Rosa), Austria (Breuste and Artmann), and ...
Pakistan is labor abundant agrarian country that heavily depends on the agriculture sector for food, employment, and raw material for industries. This study is a preliminary investigation that explores the effect of increasing average annual temperature on the competitiveness of 24 major agricultural ...
South Asia is not only the second-largest producer of rice and wheat in the world, after China, but also a large consumer of these cereals. While India is the second-largest and Pakistan the eighth-largest wheat-growing countries in the world, India and Pakistan are the second-largest and...
emissions on agricultural fruits in Pakistan. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29:19378–19389 2 Koondhar MA, Tan Z, Alam GM, Khan ZA, Wang L, Kong R (2021) Bioenergy consumption, carbon emissions, and agricultural bioeconomic growth: a systematic approach to carbon neutrality in China. J Environ Man...
An integrated model combining multi-layer cradle to cradle approach: cost effective, technically sound, and bioenvironmental cutting-edge agricultural waste assessment technologies are lacking; to address this gap, the study proposes circular agriculture
affects their control over income use. Statistics further indicate that the women had an average age of approximately 45 years, with an average household size of close to six persons per household. The statistics further depict that 6% of women are illiterate. About 22% and 55% of the women...
Sewage sludge (SS) has been considered a potent source of soil nutrients. However, its direct application to agricultural soils have been discouraged owing to its toxic nature. Therefore, conversion and modification of SS to decrease its toxicity has resulted in advanced methods. Co-pyrolysis of ...
Mountain agriculture, in the form of off-season vegetable farming, is one of the livelihood activities largely adopted by a locally settled community in the uplands of Naran, in Northern Pakistan. This community has increasingly renounced traditional livestock herding in favor of cash cropping, as ...