in asia, food security and poverty alleviation depends on sustainable rice production. the study examined factors determining irrigated and rainfed rice farming sustainability in bangladesh. data for the study were collected through a farm households survey, covering 390 rice growers (sample size was determined by using the sloven’s formula), and also via observation, key informant interview, a...

Conservation tillage (CT) systems have a number of potential benefits including lower crop production costs and the ability to reduce soil erosion that have made them common in several regions of the world. Although CT systems have been researched and successfully implemented on some farms in California's San Joaquin Valley (SJV), overall adoption is low and the reasons for the region's compara...

Current approaches to conservation planning have an established and successful track record. However, as our knowledge of resource sciences and goals for conservation expand, review and improvement of planning protocols could help improve conservation effectiveness, even though we may be satisfied with the status quo. This is easy to suggest, but we do not readily know how and when standard pla...

Web-based geospatial technology provides the means to enhance the decision making of natural resource managers and the education of natural resource users. This paper discusses the development of a web-enabled application that allows the temporal and spatial representation of raster, vector, and tabular data for natural resource processes and uses through spatially dynamic time series animation...

abstract the main objective in this article is to study the issue of development and lasting competitiveness and to study its dimensions and also to acquainted with its related components and how to achieve it. in fact, to get acquainted with competitiveness is as a development that would prevent imposition of cultural, economical, and social and/or environment damages on future generations. in...