This paper describes the scale and nature of agricultural production in urban, suburban and peri-urban zones of Mexico City and how these have adapted to the changing demands from urban populations for food, wood and recreation. It also demonstrates how agricultural producers have successfully adapted their products and their production methods, including building on traditional production syst...

Adoption of conservative agriculture at farm level is associated with reducing the production costs and leads to crop yield stability. The aim of this study was to prioritize experimental treatments based on different criteria by applying "technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution" (TOPSIS).A filed experiment was carried out at Zarghan research station, Fars province, Iran,...

1 Land Use Division, Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, 2 Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research, Institute of Land Use Systems, Muencheberg, Germany, 3 Department of Biological Production Science, Graduate School of Agriculture, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Fuchuu, Japan, 4 Field Science Centre for Education a...

Four studies investigated whether activating a social identity can lead group members to choose options that are labeled in words associated with that identity. When political identities were made salient, Republicans (but not Democrats) became more likely to choose the gamble or investment option labeled "conservative." This shift did not occur in a condition in which the same options were unl...

The transformation of the semiarid steppe soil after 5 years intensive irrigated agriculture in Northern Patagonia was analyzed an on-farm study. private grower venture used conservative practices, including no-till to maintain structure, high crop rotation and cover crops. To characterize changes by agriculture, we enzymatic activities involved biogeochemical cycles (carbon, nitrogen, phosphor...