Global land ownership patterns have been shifting in recent decades, as institutional and non-traditional investors redirect capital into rural areas. Such investment is a stimulating alternative for innovative profit-driven uses that move beyond agriculture. This paper explores how ‘new money’ economies created place effects three case studies across the United Kingdom, through concepts of bui...

recently organic agriculture as a most popular alternative production system has increasingly been considered by scientists, people and policymakers and governments in the world, and many research programs are directed to this sustainable production system. in organic agriculture it is hardly recommended to integrate plant with animal husbandry in agroecosystem. various animal products such as ...

A simmering crisis in the Nigerian agriculture today involves labour and the crisis manifests itself in the degree of labour availability, labour demand and labour productivity. One of the major products of this crisis is the increased participation of children in paid, non-familiar agricultural jobs. Agriculture ranks as one of the three most dangerous work activities, along with mining and co...

1. Bioenergy electricity and any solid, liquid or gaseous fuel that is produced through the processing of biomass may provide an alternative to the expansion of fossil fuels consumption. With careful strategies and under appropriate regulatory frameworks, bioenergy, and in particular biofuels, may be instrumental to slowing down the process of global warming and enhancing energy security, as we...

In recent years, animal agriculture has been surrounded by concerns of environmental contamination and degradation. To reduce potential environmental hazards, researchers have tried various practices to reduce the amount of nutrients being excreted in swine manure and ammonia emissions from manure contributing to diminishing air quality. To prevent further environmental concerns, diet modificat...

This paper presents a broad overview of the global agri-food system, including the sectors of agricultural production, food processing and retailing. It contrasts the practices, technologies, knowledge forms and structures of the dominant agri-food system with a range of alternative agri-food initiatives, such as organic agriculture, fair-trade and food localization movements. A number of conce...

Modern agriculture is an extremely energy intensive process. However high agricultural productivities and subsequently the growth of green revolution has been made possible only by large amount of energy inputs, especially those from fossil fuels. With recent price rise and scarcity of these fuels there has been a trend towards use of alternative energy sources like solar, wind, geothermal etc....

The majority of Australian piggeries rely on antibiotics classified as ‘low' importance in human medicine (Jordan et al., 2009). However, there is evidence of antimicrobial resistance to pathogens sampled in pig carcases that are of significant importance to human health, such as Escherichia coli (Smith et al., 2010). With increasing consumer awareness of medicine use and pressure for more welf...

PHOTOGRAMMETRIC ENGINEER ING & REMOTE SENS ING Novembe r 2008 1413 Abstract A comparison of land-cover maps, emphasizing row crop agriculture, resulting from independent classifications of coincident Landsat-5 Thematic Mapper (TM) and Resourcesat-1 Advanced Wide Field Sensor (AWIFS) imagery is presented. Three agriculturally intensive study areas within the midsection of the United States were ...