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Chain - Agriculture in cooperation with nature - Case Study
Client Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops Croatian Agricultural Land Agency Financed by The European Union from the Fund for the Serbia-Croatia cross-border cooperation Countries Republic of Serbia and Republic of Croatia Background project The Danube region is a major international hydrological basin and ecological corridor. This requires a regional approach to nature ...
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Scale of biomass production from new woody crops for salinity control in dryland agriculture in Australia
There is scope internationally to utilise surplus and degraded agricultural land for biomass crops that might also be environmentally beneficial. For example, dryland salinity in southern Australian could be ameliorated using profitable woody biomass crops. A model was developed to predict biomass production from such woody crops. At a biomass price of A$35/t (green) and a water use efficiency of ...
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CORNucopia of Opportunity in the Heartland: Or Just More Feed for the Political Cattle?
We now live in a carbon constrained world. Fears of human induced climate change are bringing about changes in government, corporate and consumer behaviors. Investments in renewable energy are increasing, corporations are greening everything from their supply chain to their vehicle fleet, and consumers are seeking to minimize their ecologic footprint as well. Are some of our greening efforts ...
By AHC Group
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Losing Soil
In 1938, Walter Lowdermilk, a senior official in the Soil Conservation Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, traveled abroad to look at lands that had been cultivated for thousands of years, seeking to learn how these older civilizations had coped with soil erosion. He found that some had managed their land well, maintaining its fertility over long stretches of history, and were ...
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