doi:10.1007/978-3-030-05325-3_82-1Agriculture, land use, and health are closely associated. Agriculture is the primary source of livelihood and hence of food sufficiency and access to health care for most of the world's rural poor...Thomas D. Dulu...
25、 (19281933)Stalin pursued the policy of collectivization in agriculture to facilitate the process of rapid industrialization; this involved the creation of collective farms in which peasants worked cooperatively on the same land with the same equipment. This was intended to improve the efficiency ...
An important finding is that animal welfare is understood somewhat differently in organic farming from what is common in conventional agriculture. It is interpreted in terms of natural living, which includes the possibility to perform a natural behaviour, feed adapted to the animal's physiology and ...
Volunteer in Eco Agriculture Maximo Nivel is offering you the opportunity to volunteer for eco agriculture in Costa Rica and Guatemala, where you’ll assist sustainable coffee-farming communities with all areas of production. While this program is open year-round, coffee harvest season in these two...
during the summer, the local impact on the land and environment was relatively low (although the total impact was high, given the large number of acres devoted to agriculture). Modern, high-intensity agriculture with fields cultivated using tractors as large as elephants, fertilizers, pesticides, ...
(there is no doubt that wheat produces the greater number of calories). Nevertheless, it must be recognized that the changing protein consumption patterns, involving more animal-based products, have significant implications for global land-use patterns,agriculture, agri-food industries, cereal prices,...
The biggest threat though to Dwarf Crocodiles throughout much of their natural range today is people, primarily in the form of habitat destruction for timber and use of the land for agriculture including creating large plantations of oil palms. Dwarf Crocodiles are also hunted by local people in...
N. et al. Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use Emissions by Sources and Removals by Sinks: 1990–2011 Analysis (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2014). Tilman, D., Balzer, C., Hill, J. & Befort, B. L. Global food demand and the sustainable ...
However, equipment for conservation agriculture is available for all power sources, including human and draft animal power and two-wheel tractors (2WTs), typically in the 10 to 15 hp range. Mechanization for sustainable production: the outlook for smallholder farmers He says, "We only use all ...
Habitats are damaged by human interference like building, agriculture, and the introduction of invasive (non-native) species. In 2020, the Jalpa false brook salamander was declared extinct. These salamanders lived only in the wooded areas of the Jalpa region in Guatemala. Farming and logging are ...