In recent years Italy has seen a vital, if spontaneous and rather piecemeal, growth in short food supply chains at the local level. Such a phenomenon is of considerable interest...
Less than one year away from the next United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development scheduled for June 2012 in Rio (Rio+20), the international community is mobilizing to ensure that tomorrow’s...
“Arrecifes”, located in the Pampas region, has undergone an intense process of soybean production in the last 20 years, due to its higher economic profitability, which could have led to negative...
To determine the effects of different doses of UV-B on the yield and quality of Scutellaria baicalensis under elevated CO2, S. baicalensis seedlings of 60 days old were exposed to...
In response to the global trends that undermine family agriculture and traditional agricultural systems, in 2002, during the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD, Johannesburg, South Africa), the Food and...
Figs are originated from the southern region of Arabia and gradually developed into the Mediterranean region. Based on historical evidence figs are planted 4000 Bc in Egypt. Many different species...
Traversed by two mountain ranges with a broad plain in the middle, the Sado Island located off the shore of Niigata Prefecture is characterized by a variety of landforms and...
A global shift towards an agriculture that builds up organic matter in the soil would also put us on a path to removing some of the other major sources of...
This volume, Climate Change and Food Systems Resilience in Sub‐Saharan Africa, demonstrates the possibility of harmonizing agricultural production with the wellbeing of the biosphere – and that this can be...
Zizania-rice rotation system was established and treated by 3 fertilizing methods. We analyzed the effects of fertilizer treatments on the environment and crop yield of zizania-rice rotation system. Results showed...
To study the spatial distribution patterns and ecological niches of Nilaparvata lugens and its main predatory natural enemies, three treatments including chemical fertilization, rice-duck farming, and no chemical pesticides/fertilizer application...
A field plot experiment was conducted to study the community structure and species diversity of major predatory natural enemies in a rice-duck integrated farming system across rice growth season. Three...
The realization of the contribution of peasant agriculture to food security in the midst of scenarios of climate change, economic and energy crisis, led to the concepts of food sovereignty...
To evaluate the factors allowing the sustainable development of Hani rice landrace, rice diversity in Yuanyang County and seed exchange in Qingkou village was surveyed. The results showed that the...
Rice-duck integrated farming is a good ecological agricultural practice which has been widely used in China, Japan, and some Southeast Asia countries or areas recently. It was reported that activities...
The combined effects of climate change, energy scarcity, and water paucity require that we radically rethink our agricultural systems. Countries can and must reorient their agricultural systems toward modes of...
The three case studies presented in this report represent successful approaches, both in terms of the techniques they have applied, and because of the active involvement of farmers’ organizations in...
Farmers are facing serious plant protection issues and phytosanitary risks, in particular in the tropics. Such issues are food insecurity, lower income in traditional low-input agroecosystems, adverse effects of pesticide...
The chinampas (raised beds) of Xochimilco, Mexico City, are highly productive, traditional wetland agricultural systems, which were able to feed most of the population in pre-hispanic times. There is a...
The film tells the special relationship of Matteo Bolognesi with agriculture: original, organic and biodynamic, but without giving up technology. With small investments from the Rural Development Programme of his...
