The success or failure of operating a rainwater harvesting system (RWH) depends on both technological and non-technological factors. The importance of non-technological factors in attaining sustainable RWH operation is rarely emphasized. This study aims to assess the contribution of non-technological factors through determining decisive factors involved in the use of RWHs for agriculture irriga...

In this paper, I address the current process of redistribution of property rights on land and establishing of new economic relations in Ukrainian agricultural sector and assess opportunities for its sustainable development. While agriculture in the Ukraine should be and still has the potential to become an engine for economic growth, the combination of past exploitation and the slow pace of eco...

Education is a critical requirement for the development of sustainable agriculture. Learning resources available through the Web can be described with metadata for enhanced availability. The provision of semantic metadata describing these resources further facilitates retrieval and selection of resources based on richer annotations that use ontologies. This paper sketches the potential use of o...

Source: IAASTD Global Report Figure 3-6, from Altieri, M.A., and C.I. Nicholls, 1999. Biodiversity, ecosystem function, and insect pest management in agricultural systems. p. 6984. In W.W. Collins and C.O.Qualset(ed) Biodiversity in Agroecosystems. CRC Press, NY. Agroecology is the science behind sustainable agriculture. Drawing on the natural and social sciences, agroecology provides a framewo...

Capacity development is essential to achieving the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS) objectives of inclusive and sustainable agriculture-led economic growth, resilience among people and systems, and a well-nourished population. While there are numerous definitions and approaches to capacity development, a Capacity Development for Agricultural Innovation Systems (CDAIS)1 app...

In the past decades, the world’s food production was mostly practiced by a monoculture system, i.e., growing only a crop over an area. The monoculture causes damages (or changes) to the biological diversity, especially the soil fertility. The sustainable agriculture is an approach of managing crop ecology in order to maintain the biological diversity, productions and long-term human existence. ...

The importance of nutrition-sensitive food and agriculture-based approaches for overcoming malnutrition and improving nutrition in general is fully recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). FAO, a specialized UN agency, has as its mandate the raising of levels of nutrition and standards of living and ensuring humanity's freedom from hunger by promoting sustainable agricultural ...

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Data mining is the art and science of intelligent analysis of (usually large) data sets for meaningful (and previously unknown) insights and is nowadays actively applied in a wide range of disciplines related to agriculture. Association Rule Mining is a powerful tool for generating rules from vast and diversified data such as agricultural datasets. Due to the emerging importance of data mining ...

Nisachon JANGPROMMA, Akira SAITO, Tomohiro ARAKI, Prasit JAISIL, Patcharin SONGSRI, Sakda DADUANG, Yuya KAWAGUCHI, Apisak DHIRAVISIT, Sompong THAMMASIRIRAK* Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand Protein and Proteomics Research Center for Commercial and Industrial Purposes, Faculty of Science, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand National ...