Competing fields in sustainable agriculture: on farmer-expert understandings of good farming, good farmers and organic farming by Hadi Veisi, Michael S. Carolan, Ali Alipour, Anahita Valiollahi Besheh

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Bibliometric analysis of publications discussing the use of the artificial intelligence technique agent-based models in sustainable agriculture by Juan M. Sánchez, Juan P. Rodríguez, Helbert E. Espitia

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Modeling the Effectiveness of Sustainable Agricultural Practices in Reducing Sediments and Nutrient Export from a River Basin by José Pedro Ramião, Cláudia Carvalho-Santos, Rute Pinto, Cláudia Pascoal

“…Additional studies exploring the effect of sustainable agricultural practices across a range of climate and watershed characteristics, as well as their capacity to deal with challenges related to climate change, will further improve our understanding of the effectiveness of sustainable agricultural practices.…”
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Fiscal agricultural expenditures' impact on sustainable agricultural economic development: Dynamic marginal effects and impact mechanism. by Shengfang Zhang, Xiaodong Zhang

“…Sustainable agricultural economic development is the core task for achieving the objective of rural revitalization strategy in China, which cannot be separated from the support and guidance of fiscal policy, and agricultural industry integration is a key path for the fiscal promotion of sustainable agricultural economic development. …”
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Integrating IOTA’s Tangle with the Internet of Things for Sustainable Agriculture: A Proof-of-Concept Study on Rice Cultivation by Sandro Pullo, Remo Pareschi, Valentina Piantadosi, Francesco Salzano, Roberto Carlini

“…Implementing sustainable agricultural practices resulted in a 50% reduction in water usage, 25% decrease in nitrogen consumption, and a 50% to 70% reduction in methane emissions. …”
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Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria (PGPB) with Biofilm-Forming Ability: A Multifaceted Agent for Sustainable Agriculture by Nur Ajijah, Angelika Fiodor, Alok Kumar Pandey, Anuj Rana, Kumar Pranaw

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Explaining farmers’ reluctance to adopt green manure cover crops planting for sustainable agriculture in Northwest China by Sheng-Han-Erin CHANG, Xiao-yan YI, Johannes SAUER, Chang-bin YIN, Fu-duo LI

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Gender- and youth-sensitive data collection tools to support decision making for inclusive sustainable agricultural intensification by Philip P. Grabowski, Ida Djenontin, Leo Zulu, Judith Kamoto, Jessica Kampanje-Phiri, Akosua Darkwah, Irene Egyir, Gundula Fischer

“…To achieve equitable sustainable agricultural intensification (SAI), it is essential to understand differential access and control over agricultural resources by women and youth, and to assess how intensification interacts with gendered and age-dependent relationships. …”
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Integration of Abandoned Lands in Sustainable Agriculture: The Case of Terraced Landscape Re-Cultivation in Mediterranean Island Conditions by Michalia Sakellariou, Basil E. Psiloglou, Christos Giannakopoulos, Photini V. Mylona

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Climate mitigation sustains agricultural research and development expenditure returns for maize yield improvement in developing countries by Ryuhei Yoshida, Toshichika Iizumi

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Will recent world events shift policy-makers’ focus from sustainable agriculture to intensive and competitive agriculture? by Giuseppe Timpanaro, Alessandro Scuderi, Paolo Guarnaccia, Vera Teresa Foti

“…The research, conducted in a traditionally agricultural area in Italy, shows that competitive and sustainable agriculture can coexist thanks to entrepreneurial choices based on values and interest in the territory. …”
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Climate smart crop-livestock integrated farming as a sustainable agricultural strategy for humid tropical islands by T. P. Swarnam, A. Velmurugan, T. Subramani, N. Ravisankar, N. Subash, A. S. Pawar, P. Perumal, I. Jaisankar, S. Dam Roy

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Lessons on enabling African smallholder farmers, especially women and youth, to benefit from sustainable agricultural intensification by Jeremy Haggar, Jonne Rodenburg

“…The papers in this Special Issue on what works and what is unlikely to work to enable poorer smallholders, especially women and youth, to benefit from Sustainable Agricultural Intensification (SAI) come from the Sustainable Agricultural Intensification Research and Learning programme. …”
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Defining and delivering ‘sustainable’ agriculture in the UK after Brexit: interdisciplinary lessons from experiences of agricultural reform by Stephen Whitfield, Aron Marshall

“…It is argued that the integrated assessment of multiple sources of knowledge can provide a means to critically reflecting on evidence about sustainability in complex systems, better understanding trade-offs, and creating a more complete and inclusive knowledge base from which to define sustainable agriculture.…”
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Assessing the association of sustainable agriculture with rural household food security (considering ecological, economic, and social aspects) by Salman Sahraei, Mohammad Reza Pakravan-Charvadeh, Saeed Gholamrezai, Mehdi Rahimian

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Optimisation of the Resource of Land-Based Livestock Systems to Advance Sustainable Agriculture: A Farm-Level Analysis by John Rendel, Alec Mackay, Paul Smale, Andrew Manderson, David Scobie

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Sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty in Haiti: sharing knowledge and shaping understanding of food systems at the University of Fondwa by Lesly Joseph, Max O. Stephenson, Laura Zanotti, Scutt Ricot

“…Since the institution’s foundation, University faculty members have explored low-input sustainable agriculture techniques, which were inspired by strategies shared earlier by Cuban agronomists and adapted to the Fondwa region’s mountainous terrain. …”
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Genome and Genetic Engineering of the House Cricket (<i>Acheta domesticus</i>): A Resource for Sustainable Agriculture by Aaron T. Dossey, Brenda Oppert, Fu-Chyun Chu, Marcé D. Lorenzen, Brian Scheffler, Sheron Simpson, Sergey Koren, J. Spencer Johnston, Kosuke Kataoka, Keigo Ide

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Life cycle assessment as a prospective tool for sustainable agriculture and food planning at a local level by Andrea Lulovicova, Stephane Bouissou

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Mineral Content and Phytochemical Composition of Avocado var. Hass Grown Using Sustainable Agriculture Practices in Ecuador by William Viera, Pablo Gaona, Iván Samaniego, Andrea Sotomayor, Pablo Viteri, Michelle Noboa, Jorge Merino, Paúl Mejía, Chang Hwan Park

“…The objective of this study was to carry out characterization of the mineral content and phytochemical compounds in avocado fruit of the Hass variety grown using sustainable agricultural practices in Ecuador. Our results show an increase in fruit quality traits, such as firmness, and in the content of soluble solids, protein, fiber, fat, carotenoids, Ca, Mg, Zn and stearic acid in the pulp of the avocado Hass variety, as well as an initial trend of yield increase with the application of sustainable practices. …”
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