For example, if the greenhouse method is employed, the soil is still needed. In case the soil nutrients and other conditions are not perfect for plants growth on the deep space destination, the soil portion could be improved. Poor and less-than-ideal soil for planting could benefit from ...
NASA released satellite images showing that the Saudis are irrigating the desert in order to grow food—with fossil water that accumulated during the last Ice Age and will be gone completely in 50 years. Grist, April 2, 2012. https://grist.org/article/incredible-nasa-images-of-saudi-arabia...
For example, juvenile Pleuronectidae fish live near shallow estuaries and move to deeper waters as they mature, while Lj migrates up to river estuaries in the spring and down to the coast in the fall. In this way, they inhabit estuaries for various reasons and compete for food resources,...
Therefore, food desert are areas recognized for a lack of physical access to healthy food. Depending on the methodology used, food deserts take on different characteristics. Thus, some literature focuses on the presence or lack of food outlets in a terri- tory [54,55], concentrating on what ...
While no objective pricing disparity was observed by food desert status, the public health relevance of price differentials is particularly salient in food deserts. By definition, in food deserts, a high proportion of residents are low-income, making them more price sensitive [17]. As discussed ...
Predicting drip irrigation use and adoption in a desert region. Agric. Water Manag. 2001, 51, 125–142. [CrossRef] 39. Alcon, F.; de Miguel, M.D.; Burton, M. Duration analysis of adoption of drip irrigation technology in southeastern Spain. Technol. Forecast. Soc. Chang. 2011, 78,...
water Article Environmental Policy to Develop a Conceptual Design for the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: A Case Study in Wadi-Dara on the Red Sea Coast, Egypt M. A. Abdelzaher 1 , Eman M. Farahat 2, Hamdy M. Abdel-Ghafar 3, Basma A. A. Balboul 4 and Mohamed M. Awad 5,* 1 ...