Weicheng Wu, East China University of Technology, China
Natural disasters, typically, drought and flood, exert direct impact on crop growing performance and productivity. The objective of this research was to conduct such an impact analysis using meteorological, statistic and multi-resolution remote sensing data taking Jiangxi, China [....]
» Read More
V P S Arora, Venkateshwara Group of Institutions, India
Global agriculture is experiencing phenomenal changes due to technological revolution, digital revolution, sprawling urbanization, accelerating growth in middle income groups, fast changing food habits and preferences, the market oscillations, and above all due to climate change [....]
» Read More
Dachang Zhang, Water & Eco Crisis Foundation, United States
Extreme climate change with increasing frequency and magnitude has globally caused great damage and loss through extreme droughts, floods and other secondary disasters during the past years. The most affected are agriculture and ecology. Floods and secondary disasters such as soi [....]
» Read More
Karine Chenu, The University of Queensland, Austria
With climate change, increase in CO2 concentration, temperature, evaporative demand and rainfall variability are projected to impact different crop processes and their interactions. Here, a modelling approach was used to characterise the type of abiotic stresses that wheat crops [....]
» Read More
Urban Agriculture can enable possibilities to combat structural inequalities in contexts of social vulnerability, providing: income generation; improvements in the quality of life of urban farmers; expansion in the production and access of food suitable for human consumption; and [....]
» Read More
Brazil is a country with a strong vocation for agriculture, owing to its abundance of the two main inputs needed to produce plant protein, namely sun and water. Tropical weather, high solar intensity and large extent of fertile soils are the ideal conditions for producing food at [....]
» Read More
Groundwater in Pakistan underpins the food-security and livelihood especially in rural areas in Punjab province of Pakistan by playing a vital role in irrigated agriculture. Groundwater provides a buffer against supply-based canal water supplies and drought conditions. It is also [....]
» Read More
Masuda Akter, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh
Despite enhance nitrous oxide (N2O) emission, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation reduces water input and CH4 emission over continuous flooded (CF) field with no significant yield reduction. Emission of these gases may further be impacted by broadcast prilled urea (PU) [....]
» Read More
Sugarcane is one of the most important commercial crops and it is the most valuable crop as it is the basic raw material for the manufacture of sugar, ethanol and jaggery. Sugarcane cultivation was started in Indian Subcontinent which was exported to other countries. Colombia is [....]
» Read More
Hua Bai, Northwest Missouri State University, United States
The world population increase coupled with the depletion of natural resources are a dangerous combination that is threatening humanity and other life around the world. At the current rate, crop production must be doubled by 2050 in order to meet population demand. High thro [....]
» Read More
Christina Cox, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
D. glomerata (Cocksfoot) has previously been highlighted for having elevated protein contents, in comparison to other forage grass species. The biorefining of such proteins is of interest within British agriculture, as both costs and CO2 emissions from soy imports used as a lives [....]
» Read More
In this preliminary study we investigate the responses of Glyphosate-Susceptible and Glyphosate-Resistant Amaranthus palmeri to an organic 10% acetic acid herbicide solution. Traditional herbicides are glyphosate-based. Overuse of these herbicides has led to glyphosate resistance [....]
» Read More
Title : Analysis of the impacts of natural disasters on food production by remote sensing taking Jiangxi, China as an example
Weicheng Wu, East China University of Technology, China
Natural disasters, typically, drought and flood, exert direct impact on crop growing performance and productivity. The objective of this research was to conduct such an impact analysis using meteorological, statistic and multi-resolution remote sensing data taking Jiangxi, China [....] » Read More
Title : Status, Issues, Prospect, and Challenges of Agribusiness in India
V P S Arora, Venkateshwara Group of Institutions, India
Global agriculture is experiencing phenomenal changes due to technological revolution, digital revolution, sprawling urbanization, accelerating growth in middle income groups, fast changing food habits and preferences, the market oscillations, and above all due to climate change [....] » Read More
Title : Suitaiology- A new water science to meet the challenges of climate change and agricultural sustainable development
Dachang Zhang, Water & Eco Crisis Foundation, United States
Extreme climate change with increasing frequency and magnitude has globally caused great damage and loss through extreme droughts, floods and other secondary disasters during the past years. The most affected are agriculture and ecology. Floods and secondary disasters such as soi [....] » Read More
Title : Genotype and Management adaptation of crops to current and future climates
Karine Chenu, The University of Queensland, Austria
With climate change, increase in CO2 concentration, temperature, evaporative demand and rainfall variability are projected to impact different crop processes and their interactions. Here, a modelling approach was used to characterise the type of abiotic stresses that wheat crops [....] » Read More
Title : Urban Agriculture in socially vulnerable areas of Sao Paulo, Brazil and in Lisbon, Portugal
Laura Martins de Carvalho, FGV-SP, Brazil
Urban Agriculture can enable possibilities to combat structural inequalities in contexts of social vulnerability, providing: income generation; improvements in the quality of life of urban farmers; expansion in the production and access of food suitable for human consumption; and [....] » Read More
Title : Food production x irrigation x natural resources in Brazil: Successful case and challenges for environmental sustainability
Danilo Jose Fanelli Luchiari, Citrus Technical Assistance And Consulting Group, Brazil
Brazil is a country with a strong vocation for agriculture, owing to its abundance of the two main inputs needed to produce plant protein, namely sun and water. Tropical weather, high solar intensity and large extent of fertile soils are the ideal conditions for producing food at [....] » Read More
Title : Mr. Zakir-Hassan is working as Director Research at Punjab Irrigation Department Lahore, Pakistan. He obtained M. Engg, degree from Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand and currently is a PhD scholar at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He has more than 25 year experience in the applied and basic research fields related to a wide spectrum of
Ghulam Zakir Hassan, Charles Sturt University, Australia
Groundwater in Pakistan underpins the food-security and livelihood especially in rural areas in Punjab province of Pakistan by playing a vital role in irrigated agriculture. Groundwater provides a buffer against supply-based canal water supplies and drought conditions. It is also [....] » Read More
Title : Alternate wetting and drying: a promising water saving approach to reduce methane emission without lessening yield in dry season rice
Masuda Akter, Bangladesh Rice Research Institute, Bangladesh
Despite enhance nitrous oxide (N2O) emission, alternate wetting and drying (AWD) irrigation reduces water input and CH4 emission over continuous flooded (CF) field with no significant yield reduction. Emission of these gases may further be impacted by broadcast prilled urea (PU) [....] » Read More
Title : Stochastic option pricing model for rainfall derivatives - A case study of sugarcane production in valle del cauca, Colombia
Sellamuthu Prabakaran, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia
Sugarcane is one of the most important commercial crops and it is the most valuable crop as it is the basic raw material for the manufacture of sugar, ethanol and jaggery. Sugarcane cultivation was started in Indian Subcontinent which was exported to other countries. Colombia is [....] » Read More
Title : From gaming to high throughput phenotyping: Use of an X-box camera to model soybean 3D structure and morphological traits
Hua Bai, Northwest Missouri State University, United States
The world population increase coupled with the depletion of natural resources are a dangerous combination that is threatening humanity and other life around the world. At the current rate, crop production must be doubled by 2050 in order to meet population demand. High thro [....] » Read More
Title : Protein extracts as a biorefining product from the forage grass species Dactylis glomerata
Christina Cox, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
D. glomerata (Cocksfoot) has previously been highlighted for having elevated protein contents, in comparison to other forage grass species. The biorefining of such proteins is of interest within British agriculture, as both costs and CO2 emissions from soy imports used as a lives [....] » Read More
Title : A ten percent acetic acid solution is sucessful as a growth control agent for glyphosate susceptible and glyphosate resistant Amaranthus palmeri (Palmer Amaranth) when applied early
Yolander Renea Youngblood, Prairie View A&M University, United States
In this preliminary study we investigate the responses of Glyphosate-Susceptible and Glyphosate-Resistant Amaranthus palmeri to an organic 10% acetic acid herbicide solution. Traditional herbicides are glyphosate-based. Overuse of these herbicides has led to glyphosate resistance [....] » Read More