Agriculture - Trends
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Development and testing of a sustainable environmental restoration policy on eradicating the poverty trap in China's Changting County.

13 Jun 2009 It is widely accepted that environmental degradation and poverty are linked and that conservation and poverty reduction should be tackled together. However, success with integrated strategies has been elusive. Here, we present the results of a study ... Read more...

Recent land cover history and nutrient retention in riparian wetlands.

28 May 2009 Wetland ecosystems are profoundly affected by altered nutrient and sediment loads received from anthropogenic activity in their surrounding watersheds. Our objective was to compare a gradient of agricultural and urban land cover history during the ... Read more...

Potential contributions of food consumption patterns to climate change.

30 Mar 2009 Anthropogenic warming is caused mainly by emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs), such as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, with agriculture as a main contributor for the latter 2 gases. Other parts of the food system contribute carbon ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Agriculture - Trends'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Environment: The disappearing nutrient. 6 Oct 2009
• Biotech's plans to sustain agriculture. 29 Sep 2009
• US agriculture research gets priority plan. 29 Sep 2009
• Wonder weed plans fail to flourish. 15 Sep 2009
• Agriculture. Agricultural research, productivity, and food prices in the long run. 2 Sep 2009
• Satellite data show Indian water stocks shrinking. 11 Aug 2009
• Potential causes and health effects of rising global food prices. 11 Jul 2009
• Economic conditions and obesity. 22 Jun 2009
• Development and testing of a sustainable environmental restoration policy on eradicating the poverty trap in China's Changting County. 13 Jun 2009
• Recent land cover history and nutrient retention in riparian wetlands. 28 May 2009
• Time for China to restore its natural wetlands. 19 May 2009
• Organotransgenesis arrives. 7 May 2009
• The stock of organic carbon in soils of the Russian Federation: updated estimation in connection with land use changes. 29 Apr 2009
• Risks of extreme heat and unpredictability. 8 Apr 2009
• Potential contributions of food consumption patterns to climate change. 30 Mar 2009
• Does harvest select for maladaptation in an increasingly variable world? 18 Mar 2009
• Land use and land cover change analysis and prediction in the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, China. 15 Mar 2009
• Amplification of the North American "Dust Bowl" drought through human-induced land degradation. 14 Mar 2009
• Linking international agricultural research knowledge with action for sustainable development. 14 Mar 2009
• The future of science: food and water for life. 25 Feb 2009

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Technical information about 'Agriculture'

Definition: The science of soil cultivation, crop production, and livestock raising.

Descriptor UI: D000383

Alternative terms: Agriculture; Land Supply; Land Supplies; Supplies, Land; Supply, Land; Agricultural Workers; Agricultural Worker; Worker, Agricultural; Workers, Agricultural; Agricultural Development; Development, Agricultural;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: J01.040;

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif