Irrigated agriculture consumes the largest share of available fresh water, and awareness of the spatial distribution and application rates is paramount to a functional and sustainable communal consumptive water use. This remote sensing study leverages surface energy balance fluxes and vegetation indices to classify and map the spatial distribution of irrigated and non-irrigated croplands. The p...

The objectives of this work were to determine the heliotropic movements of the upper trifoliates for two soybean cultivars, BR 16 and Embrapa 48, during a daily cycle, in three phenological stages and two water regimes, and to estimate the impact of irrigation and daily leaflet movements on agronomic characteristics and grain yield. Heliotropic movements were studied in three phenological stage...

This article reports experiments that explore the critical factors for gene flow in oilseed rape (Brassica napus) via the soil seedbank under Chinese farming systems. Research was carried out on 16 farmer s fields to estimate harvest seed losses after different planting methods and harvest timings, during the four components of the harvest operations. An additional field experiment was set up t...

This work provides a description of the research conducted to assess methods for the discrimination between irrigated and rainfed open-tree canopies using advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer (ASTER) satellite imagery and discrete anisotropic radiative transfer (DART) radiative transfer 3D simulation model. Summer and winter ASTER images were acquired over a study area...

Understanding the roots of a sense place in farmlands is crucial for stopping rural exodus to urban areas. Farmers’ experiences related their way life, peace and quiet, rootedness, pleasure, inspiration are fundamental components farmlands. Here, we used city Pereira located Coffee Cultural Landscape Colombia (CCLC) examine role nature’s contributions people (NCP) forming meanings attachments t...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the process where sugar companies in Taiwan fell surrounding farmlands under their control.

The need to feed livestock of herdsmen necessitates their migration from their communities due to inadequate pastures to other communities and this has led to the trespass of these pastoralists to the farmlands of local agriculturalists and destruction of their crops thereby leading to conflict. This study therefore analyses the causes, evolution, dynamics and solutions to the conflicts generat...

ure from Greek mythology for nearly 3 millennia. Central to his myth is the story cycle about the 12 presumably impossible labors he carried out for the loathed King Eurystheus. Sometimes overlooked is that Hercules performed those tasks as penance for having murdered his own wife and children during a fit of madness. For the fourth labor, Eurystheus ordered Hercules to capture the vicious Erym...