Benefits of data-driven agriculture for adopting the principles of sustainable agriculture What is agricultural data? In this communication, “agricultural data” is any data associated with or useful to farming practice, farm economics, or farm environmental impacts. While there has been a focus in...
said that because vertical farming is a rapidly growing and young industry, it is important to develop a strategy capable of defining its impacts early on. While the benefits of vertical farming seem obvious, its real effects are complex
(1) highlight synergies and tradeoffs in food and water production, (2) build a dynamic framework capable of examining intertemporal resource relationships, and (3) detail the steps required to develop incentive-compatible financing of the resulting management plans when benefits are not distributed ...
These farmers are unusually informative, because they are unsubsidized but have the capacity, incentive and willingness to adapt to climate change. We find that they are adopting CA autonomously, but that their implementation is highly variable and their interpretation of farming practice differs from...
with the high costs of manually separating plastic types, washing the waste, and then re-melting the polymers,” he said. “As a result, recycled plastics often cost more than new plastics, so there is not an economic incentive to recycle and thus, pollution is still a problem decades late...
Another clear benefit is that such applications may create a revenue stream that can partially offset the cost of dry disposal of the mine tailings, which could be a strong incentive for coal mining companies to adopt such practices. Soil is vital to provide nutrients for plants to grow (...
for example of the “Punjab Water Syndrome,” where falling water tables combine dangerously with waterlogging in other parts of the state in India (Kulkarni and Shah2013). However, the aforementioned could be addressed through innovative incentive-based approaches that result in distinct behavior chan...
What is the best strategy for sustainable dairy farming that not only benefits the environment but is also profitable? Charlie Crave, a founding partner in Crave Brothers Farm and Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese, explains how his family-owned dairy operation has grown with the addition of a ...
Conventional distribution systems in the Central Amazon are impeded due to the environment, the remoteness of areas, and the low population density [35]. Thus, solar energy has been recommended for this tropical region as early as in 1998 due the benefits outweighing the cost of installation [...
But decisions like these are rare, not least because impact investors — who want their money to bring about social and environmental benefits — often have limited tools at their disposal to work out whether companies are meeting sustainability commitments. They face multiple hurdles, from inconsiste...