Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities by Danielle L. Gelardi, Daniel Rath, Chad E. Kruger

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Economic and Environmental Aspects of Agriculture in the EU Countries by Joanna Domagała

“…This issue is particularly important in the context of sustainable agricultural development. In the next stage of the research, the analysis of economic and energy efficiency was combined with the analysis of GHG emission efficiency in agriculture. …”
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Is the Abandonment of Organic Grassland a Threat to Alpine Insect Diversity? by Raja Imran Hussain, Daniela Ablinger, Walter Starz, Jürgen Kurt Friedel, Thomas Frank

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The Impact of the Agricultural Extension and Education System on Organic Agricultural Development in Agricultural Cooperatives of Shabestar Township by Yahya Safi Sis, Milad Joodi Damirchi, Najimeh Esmaili

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Investment priorities for research and innovation in urban agri-food systems: Toward more resilient cities in the Global South by Gordon Prain, David Simon, David Simon, Jess Halliday, Pay Drechsel

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Environmental regulation and high-quality agricultural development. by Yutong Leng, Xinmin Liu, Xinjiang Wang

“…The marginal contribution of this paper is to enrich the study of the relationship between environmental regulation and high-quality agricultural development, which has theoretical and practical implications for promoting sustainable agricultural development.…”
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City-Level Determinants of Household CO₂ Emissions per Person: An Empirical Study Based on a Large Survey in China by Jiansheng Qu, Lina Liu, Jingjing Zeng, Tek Narayan Maraseni, Zhiqiang Zhang

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Prevention of biofouling in seawater desalination via initiated chemical vapor deposition (iCVD) by Yang, Rong, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Comparing Machine Learning Algorithms for Estimating the Maize Crop Water Stress Index (CWSI) Using UAV-Acquired Remotely Sensed Data in Smallholder Croplands by Mpho Kapari, Mbulisi Sibanda, James Magidi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Luxon Nhamo, Sylvester Mpandeli

“…This underscores the urgent need for such technology to improve crop monitoring and water stress assessment, providing valuable insights for sustainable agricultural practices in food-insecure regions.…”
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Determination of the Most Efficient Forage Sorghum Irrigation Scheduling Strategies in the U.S. Central High Plains Using the AquaCrop Model and Field Experiments by Forough Fazel, Hossein Ansari, Jonathan Aguilar

“…Central High Plains necessitates adopting water conservation practices to move toward a sustainable agricultural economy. Identifying proper irrigation scheduling techniques is a conservative practice to maintain the sustainability of the agricultural systems. …”
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EFFECT OF LAND-USE ON SOIL PROPERTIES IN NE PART OF ROMANIA by Alexandra Petronela Stoleriu, Iuliana Gabriela Breaban, Constantin Rusu

“…Therefore, for sustainable agricultural practice is required basic knowledge regarding the rational use of the land. …”
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Genotypic and Environmental Effects on Morpho-Physiological and Agronomic Performances of a Tomato Diversity Panel in Relation to Nitrogen and Water Stress Under Organic Farming by Pasquale Tripodi, Maria R. Figàs, Fabrizio Leteo, Salvador Soler, María José Díez, Gabriele Campanelli, Teodoro Cardi, Jaime Prohens

“…The agricultural scenario of the upcoming decades will face major challenges for the increased and sustainable agricultural production and the optimization of the efficiency of water and fertilizer inputs. …”
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Response of the Soil Fungal Community and Its Function during the Conversion of Forestland to Tea Plantations: A Case Study in Southeast China by Feng Wang, Yuzhen Chen, Xiaomin Yu, Wenquan Yu, Zhiming You, Zhenbiao Yang

“…Collectively, our results provide a clear view on the dynamic yet differential responses of fungal communities to land-use changes, and further emphasizes the need for long-term conventional tea plantations to adopt sustainable agricultural practices to reduce soil pathogenic fungi.…”
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Differential plant cell responses to Acidovorax citrulli T3SS and T6SS reveal an effective strategy for controlling plant-associated pathogens by Yumin Kan, Yanjie Zhang, Wenhui Lin, Tao Dong

“…Here, we show that an engineered T6SS-active, but avirulent mutant of Acidovorax citrulli has strong inhibition capabilities against several pathogenic bacteria, demonstrating an effective strategy that is an alternative to chemical pesticides for sustainable agricultural practices.…”
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Optimizing irrigation management sustained grain yield, crop water productivity, and mitigated greenhouse gas emissions from the winter wheat field in North China Plain by Faisal Mehmood, Guangshuai Wang, Sunusi Amin Abubakar, Muhammad Zain, Shafeeq Ur Rahman, Yang Gao, Aiwang Duan

“…Climate change caused by increasing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions has led to frequent extreme weather events, which seriously threaten sustainable agricultural production. Therefore, it is essential to optimize proper irrigation management to improve the grain yield, crop water productivity (WPc), economic crop water productivity (EWPc), and lower global warming potential (GWP) and GWP Intensity (GWPI). …”
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Identification of High-Yielding Genotypes of Barley in the Warm Regions of Iran by Alireza Pour-Aboughadareh, Shirali Koohkan, Hassan Zali, Akbar Marzooghian, Ahmad Gholipour, Masoome Kheirgo, Ali Barati, Jan Bocianowski, Alireza Askari-Kelestani

“…As the fourth most important cereal crop, barley (<i>Hordeum vulgare</i> L.) is crucial for food and feed security, as well as for a sustainable agricultural system. The present study investigates 56 promising barley genotypes, along with four local varieties (Norooz, Oxin, Golchin, and Negin) in four locations to identify high-yielding and adapted genotypes in the warm climate of Iran. …”
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Ecosystem-service tradeoffs associated with switching from annual to perennial energy crops in riparian zones of the US Midwest. by Timothy D Meehan, Claudio Gratton, Erica Diehl, Natalie D Hunt, Daniel F Mooney, Stephen J Ventura, Bradford L Barham, Randall D Jackson

“…This disparity between recoverable costs and social value represents a fundamental challenge to expansion of perennial energy crops and sustainable agricultural landscapes.…”
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Effects of Pea (<i>Pisum sativum</i> L.) Cultivars for Mixed Cropping with Oats (<i>Avena sativa</i> L.) on Yield and Competition Indices in an Organic Production System by Lina Šarūnaitė, Monika Toleikienė, Aušra Arlauskienė, Kristyna Razbadauskienė, Irena Deveikytė, Skaidrė Supronienė, Roma Semaškienė, Žydrė Kadžiulienė

“…The benefits of cereal-legume mixed cropping is a sustainable agricultural practice. However, knowledge of the genotypic differences of semi-leafless pea varieties is not enough to help them compete with cereals. …”
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SDG 2 – ending hunger: the effect of Nigeria’s land titling on production output and food security of farming households by Temitayo Adenike Adeyemo, Adeola Oluwabunmi Adeagbo

“…Achieving zero hunger is intricately linked to sustainable agricultural production and the workings of a farming system. …”
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Assessing the impact of parental involvement on scaling agricultural technologies from school garden to home farm in Cambodia by Gracie Pekarcik, David Ader, Tom Gill, Jennifer Richards

“…While several sustainable agricultural technologies have been suc­cessfully piloted on research stations or with small numbers of early adopters, questions remain on how to extend these technologies to large numbers of resource-poor smallholder farmers. …”
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