Here we argue that, based on evolutionary, ecological and agronomic considerations, climate change could not have been a suitable background nor a probable cause of plant domestication in the Near East. This thesis is developed based on the year-to-year yield dynamics in traditional rainfed grain farming in semi-arid environments, on the genetic basis that underlies temporal yield dynamics in n...

Using a political economy framework, this paper explores the tax-farming nature of China’s fiscally decentralized system and examines why the system incurs a particularly heavy financial burden on peasants. It points out that a political hierarchy, financed by a tax-farming system in China, fails to contain the exploitative behavior of local officials. Such a system results in expenditure devol...

Сучасному зовнішньому середовищу, в якому працюють вітчизняні агропідприємства, властивий високий динамізм. Процеси ринкової трансформації сфері вітчизняних агропідприємств, підвищення конкуренції, потреба зростанні кількості та якості сільськогосподарської продукції при тих же земельних ресурсах робить агропідприємства з традиційними технологіями управління економічно нежиттєздатними неефектив...

Precision farming is a modern direction of agricultural development, which opens new opportunities to increase the productivity each land by taking into account its specific features. Its implementation requires an assessment spatial heterogeneity soils and vegetation. This ensures timely application adequate measures in those places that need it.
 In this work, ways solving problems preci...

In recent years, farming section of South Khorasan Province faces different limitations such as increasing shortage of water resources and continuous reduction of weather showers.Considering consecutive droughts and water crisis in agricultural plain of the province, it is necessary to use water resources optimally and increase productivity of water shortage input. Comparison of water productiv...

Transhumance is an extensive farming system developed by livestock farmers, that moved their herds between lowlands and uplands, in order to cope with the seasonality of the available forage. The purpose of this study was to examine the transhumant sheep and goat system in Greece highlighting differences in management aspects among the country’s regions. Non-parametric statistical methods in a ...

This thesis tests if certain technology choices are associated with a reduction in the proportion of farming activities in the agro-food system in Maine. Goodman, Sorj, and Wilkinson define appropriationism as the replacement of farming sector activities by industrial inputs. Based on the concept of appropriationism, industrial fanning systems using large amounts of synthetic inputs contribute ...