Organic Farming - Stewardship for Sustainable Agriculture
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Sustainable Land use and Organic Farming
There are 1.9 hectares of productive land available for each of the 6 billion people living in the world at present. In our industrialised Western society it is sometimes hard to realise quite how fundamental land is to our life on earth. The top six inches of land, which is soil, has to provide us with all our food. The land has to absorb much of our waste and is the catchment and filter for o...
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This study examines the relation between folk expertise and wild plant classification in Little Dixie, a sevencounty vernacular cultural region in central Missouri. A successive pile-sort task was administered to ten local wild plant “experts” and ten “novices” of Euro-American descent to investigate how ethnobotanical knowledge influences the cognitive construction of folk taxonomies. The resu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Agricultural Research & Technology: Open Access Journal
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2471-6774
DOI: 10.19080/artoaj.2018.13.555883