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Ramirez, Almeyda Jacqueline <1985&gt. "Lignocellulosic Crops in Europe: Integrating Crop Yield Potentials with Land Potentials." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2017. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/7854/1/Tesi_J.Ramirez_2017_Lignocellulosic%20crops%20potentials%20in%20EU.pdf.

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Given the ambitious EU targets to further decarbonise the economy, it can be expected that the demand for lignocellulosic biomass will continue to grow. Provisioning of part of this biomass by dedicated biomass crops becomes an option. This study presents integrated approach for crop allocation based on land availability and crop requirements. The model analysis to investigate the potential extension of unused land and its suitability for lignocellulosic crops was carried out in 37 European countries at the NUTS3 level. The CAPRI model predicts future land use changes and was used as a basic
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Paton, Lewis William. "A robust Bayesian land use model for crop rotations." Thesis, Durham University, 2016. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11484/.

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Often, in dynamical systems, such as farmers’ crop choices, the dynamics are driven by external non-stationary factors, such as rainfall and agricultural input and output prices. Such dynamics can be modelled by a non-stationary stochastic process, where the transition probabilities are functions of such external factors. We propose using a multinomial logit model for these transition probabilities, and investigate the problem of estimating the parameters of this model from data. We adapt the work of Chen and Ibrahim to propose a conjugate prior distribution for the parameters of the multinomi
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Parvez, Md Rezwanul. "Essays on Land Conversion, Crop Acreage Response, and Land Conservation Benefits| Evidence from the Dakotas." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10641458.

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<p> This research is composed of three essays. It highlights the driving factors of land conversion and crop acreage response focusing on North Dakota agriculture and estimates the benefits of conservation land measures at west central South Dakota watershed. The major questions that are addressed here are how and why agricultural producers decide among different land use choices, crop selection, and land conservation measures and how their decision vary over time? The first essay examines the long run land conversion trend interconnected with change in crop, oil, and ethanol prices, climate a
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Hütt, Christoph [Verfasser], Georg [Gutachter] Bareth, and Karl [Gutachter] Schneider. "Combining Multitemporal Microwave and Optical Remote Sensing Data. Mapping of Land Use / Land Cover, Crop Type, and Crop Traits / Christoph Hütt ; Gutachter: Georg Bareth, Karl Schneider." Köln : Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1189811367/34.

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Ayre, Kevin. "Evaluation of carabids as predators of slugs in arable land." Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/946.

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An Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) was developed which detected slug antigens in postmortem gut analysis of carabid beetles. The ELISA was used to identify beetles which fed on slugs in three fields of oilseed rape and winter wheat in the Tyne valley, Northumberland. Generalist species such as Harpalus rufipes, Pterostichus melanarius, Pterostichus nladidus, Anlara silnilata and Nebria brevicollis fed on slugs in the field. Molluscan specialists such as Carabus violaceus and Cychrus caraboides also fed on slugs in the field. Laboratory studies indicated that many large and medium siz
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Deal, Michael William. "Net Primary Production in Three Bioenergy Crop Systems Following Land Conversion." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1309362383.

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Ramasubramanian, Janani Akhilandeswari. "Demand and impact of crop microinsurance in India." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2015. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/53932/.

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This thesis presents an analysis of the demand and impact of crop microinsurance in India. The study is based on extensive fieldwork and primary data collection from two field sites in India. The first empirical chapter examines the impact of crop microinsurance on output. Accounting for the endogeneity of insurance investment, this chapter uses a two-step instrumental variables approach to assess the impact of insurance on yield for two varieties of paddy. The assessment is based on secondary district level data and primary household survey data. The findings indicate that impact of insurance
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Wairiu, Morgan. "Erosion and land use effects on soil quality and crop yield on sloping lands in Solomon Islands /." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1486394475977461.

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Robinson, Todd Allen. "IDENTIFICATION OF AGRICULTURAL LAND USE IN CALIFORNIA THROUGH REMOTE SENSING." DigitalCommons@CalPoly, 2016. https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/theses/1668.

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Ground truthing actual crop types in an area can be expensive and time-consuming. The California Department of Water Resources attempts to ground truth land use in each county in California every five years. However, this is limited by budgetary constraints and often results in infrequent (more than every ten years) surveying of many counties. An accurate accounting of crops growing in a region is important for a variety of purposes including farm production estimates, groundwater and surface water modeling, evapotranspiration estimation, water planning, research applications, etc. Agricultura
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Deryng, Delphine. "Simulating the effects of climate and land management practices on global crop yield." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92347.

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Global warming resulting from increasing greenhouse gas emissions is a threat to global food production. A rise in temperatures along with a shift in precipitation regimes is expected to decrease production in the future. However, farm management, such as the choice of crop cultivar, planting decisions, and irrigation can help farmers to alleviate some of the potential crop yield losses from climate change. In order to estimate the role of climate and agricultural management practices on yield, a new global crop model, PEGASUS 1.0 (Predicting Ecosystem Goods And Services Using Scenarios) has b
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Shortall, Orla. "Rethinking bioenergy from an agricultural perspective : ethical issues raised by perennial energy crop and crop residue production for energy in the UK and Denmark." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2015. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/28756/.

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The aim of this project is to explore the social and ethical dimensions of the agricultural production of perennial energy crop and crop residues for energy. Biomass – any living or recently living matter – is being promoted in industrialised countries as part of the transition from fossil fuels to an economy based on renewable energy. Various challenges face the use of bioenergy however. One particularly controversial and high profile example has been the use of food crop biofuels in transport which are seen to conflict with food production and to cause significant environmental damage. Sugge
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El-Kholei, Ahmed Mohammed Salah. "Evaluating the impact of economic agricultural policies during the reform era for major crops and crop rotations in Egypt : a policy analysis matrix approach." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2003. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13346/.

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In 1986, Egypt implemented a succession of comprehensive economic reforms both in the agriculture sector and more generally such as the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Program (ERSAP) of 1991. Since then, the agricultural sector has been gradually transformed from one characterised by central planning and governmental controls to one that is more free market oriented. This study employs the Policy Analysis Matrix technique to evaluate the impacts of reform policies on eleven major crops (wheat, maize, sugar cane, soy bean, broad bean, cotton, rice, tomatoes, potatoes, long and short
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Soares, Abilio Barros. "Crop Price and Land Use Change: Forecasting Response of Major Crops Acreage to Price and Economic Variables in North Dakota." Thesis, North Dakota State University, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/10365/27685.

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The objective of this study is to examine land use change for cropping systems in North Dakota. Using Seemingly Unrelated Regression with full information maximum likelihood estimation method, acreage forecasting models for barley, corn, oats, soybean, and wheat were developed to examine the extent to which farmers? expectations of prices and costs affect their crop choices. The results of the study show that farmers? decision for acreage allocation is varied across the crops depending on how responsive they are to price, cost and yield of its own and competing crops. Substitutability and comp
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Alves, Helena Maria Ramos. "Quantitative land suitability evaluation using readily available data sources : a case study of maize in Minas Gerais, Brazil." Thesis, University of Reading, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.335886.

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Barona, Elizabeth. "Identifying the role of crop production in land cover change in Brazil, 1990-2006." Thesis, McGill University, 2009. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=32278.

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Crop production in Brazil has changed significantly over the last decade. New crops are being cultivated to satisfy the world's growing demand for Brazilian export products —a demand that has caused substantial changes in land use and cover, mainly characterized by the increase in large-scale mechanization of agriculture, deforestation, and intensification of agricultural land use. Brazil currently provides crop production information at the municipality level. This information was analyzed using Geograph
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Cook, Robin Ian. "A study of allotments and small land plots : benchmarking for vegetable food crop production." Thesis, University of South Wales, 2006. https://pure.southwales.ac.uk/en/studentthesis/a-study-of-allotments-and-small-land-plots(f17ff2b7-2f7e-46f1-934c-f0a464815d16).html.

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This study seeks to benchmark financial efficiencies for vegetable food crop production and to demonstrate that local vegetable food crop growing is a viable option. The work identifies techniques for communities to increase sustainability on small land plots in Wales [UK]. Initial research shows limited availability of systematic data on harvest quantities and financial returns for small scale growing of vegetable food crops. When interviewed, 37 growers from an initial total of 40 were either reluctant to provide, or had failed to keep, written records of vegetable production, their costs an
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Banda, Alefa. "Adoption and crop productivity impacts of sustainable agricultural and land management practices in Zambia." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/63232.

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Agricultural productivity in the Sub Saharan African (SSA) region has been cited to be low (Suttie & Benfica, 2016). As a result, there is a consistent call for evolution in smallholder farming. In addition to improving agricultural productivity, this evolution should factor in adaptation to climate variability and change. To achieve this, the use of sound and sustainable agricultural and land management practices (SALMPs) stands paramount. Among these include: (1) improved agronomic practices such as the use of improved seed varieties (HYV), (2) integrated nutrient management practices (INM),
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Muratore, Thomas Joseph Jr. "LONG-TERM LAND MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND THEIR EFFECT ON SOIL HEALTH AND CROP PRODUCTIVITY." UKnowledge, 2019. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_etds/115.

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Agricultural intensification reliant on monocrops could change soil health in a way that does not support maximum crop productivity. Twenty-nine-year-old no-till field plots at the University of Kentucky Spindletop research farm showed a significant reduction in corn yields from continuous corn plots compared to those from plots in various types of rotation. The objective of this study was to determine what role soil microbes might play in yield reduction and how management and time effects microbial community structure. Samples were collected from the following treatments: continuous corn (CC
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Tungittiplakorn, Waranoot. "Highland cash crop development and biodiversity conservation : the Hmong in Northern Thailand." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape17/PQDD_0027/NQ36650.pdf.

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Ren, Jie. "Multi-temporal Remote Sensing of Changing Agricultural Land Uses within the Midwestern Corn Belt, 2001-2015." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/81559.

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The Midwest US has experienced significant changes in agricultural land use and management practices in recent decades. Cropland expansion, crop rotation change, and crop phenology changes could lead to divergent environmental impacts on linked ecosystems. The overall objective is to examine agricultural land use and management changes and their impacts on water quality in the Midwest US, which is addressed in three separate studies. The first study examined spatial and temporal dimensions of agricultural land use dynamics in east-central Iowa, 2001-2012. Results of this study indicated that i
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Van, Averbeke W., A. Verdoodt, and E. Ranst. "Modelling crop production potentials for yield gap analysis under semiarid conditions in Guquka, South Africa." Soil Use and Management, 2003. http://encore.tut.ac.za/iii/cpro/DigitalItemViewPage.external?sp=1000885.

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Hierarchical crop growth models can contribute signi®cantly to land quality research because the yield gap between the estimated optimum and the actual crop production has been identi®ed as a major land quality indicator. This study describes a three-level, hierarchical crop production model, simulating radiation-thermal, water-limited and natural production potentials of annual crops. Input requirements have been kept low to ensure its applicability to developing regions, which often have access only to limited data. The simplicity of this model also has disadvantages: inconsistencies have be
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Gelder, Brian Keith. "Land management database development methods for delineating management units and estimating crop and residue cover /." [Ames, Iowa : Iowa State University], 2007.

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Qader, Sarchil Hama. "Monitoring decadal land cover and crop production in Iraq using time series remote sensing data." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2016. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/411281/.

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Ostwald, Madelene, Anna Jonsson, Victoria Wibeck, and Therese Asplund. "Mapping energy crop cultivation and identifying motivational factors among Swedish farmers." Linköpings universitet, Centrum för klimatpolitisk forskning, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-86210.

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Based on a meta-study, the paper describes the existing options, areal extents, and Swedish farmers' conditions for energy crop production promoted by the governments to mitigate and adapt to climate change. The drivers of and barriers to cultivating various energy crops are described in terms of a variety of motivational factors. The approach used peer-reviewed and gray literature using three Internet sources. Questions addressed include the energy crops available to Swedish farmers and how well established they are in terms of areal extent. What drivers of and barriers to growing energy crop
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Graham, Michael William. "Evaluating the interactions of crop management, carbon cycling, and climate using Earth system modeling and remote sensing." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/102386.

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Crop management practices, such as soil tillage and crop residue management, are land management activities with potentially large impacts on carbon (C) cycling and climate at the global scale. Improvements in crop management practices, such as conservation tillage or 'no-till' (NT), have been proposed as climate change mitigation measures because such practices may alter C cycles through increased sequestration of soil C in agricultural soils. Despite their potential importance, regional to global scale data are lacking for many crop management practices, and few studies have evaluated the po
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Larsson, Sylvia. "Modelling of the potential for energy crop utilisation in northern Sweden /." Umeå : Unit of Biomass Technology and Chemistry, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2003. http://epsilon.slu.se/9066018.pdf.

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Marasco, R. "'MORE CROP PER DROP': THE CONTRIBUTE OF PLANT GROWTH PROMOTING BACTERIA." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/168878.

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Environmental stresses are main factors limiting crop production worldwide. Water stress is a primary cause of crop losses, reducing average yields for most of the major crops by more than 50%, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. Moreover, the increasing frequency of dry periods in many regions of the world, as a consequence of the global warming, frequently results in saline soils with low agricultural potential. Bacteria are among the first colonizers of soil habitats at different stages of development, largely contributing in determining soil structure and composition. In this conte
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de, Brito Luis Miguel Cortez Mesquita. "Organic composts as soil amendments to agriculutral land : quantitative studies on their effects on crop production." Thesis, University of Reading, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386560.

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Shipton, P. M. "Land, credit and crop transitions in Kenya : the Luo response to directed development in Nyanza Province." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.355031.

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Smith, Tiziana. "Estimating hydrologic fluxes, crop water use, and agricultural land use in China from multiple data sources." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104166.

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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016.<br>Thesis: S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, Technology and Policy Program, 2016.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-99).<br>Crop production has significantly altered the terrestrial environment by changing land use (Ramankutty et al., 2008) and by altering the water cycle through both co-opting rainfall and surface water withdrawals (Postel et al., 1996)
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Collins, O. J. "Investigation into the fate of nutrients and crop growth following application of sewage sludge to land." Thesis, Cranfield University, 1996. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11406.

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Investigations into nitrate leaching from sludge and sludge injection into grassland have been undertaken for many years, however phosphate leaching from soils and shallow injection of sludge into grassland are relatively new ideas. This lysimeter study sets out to investigate the influence of the type of slurry and application rate on the amount of phosphorus and nitrogen lost by leaching. The field trial assesses the influence of application methods on grass yield, sward damage and ritrogen loss by leaching through analysing the effects on a grass crop using two different methods of injectio
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Parvez, Md Rezwanul. "Essays on Land Conversion, Crop Acreage Response, and Adoption of Conservation Practices: Evidence from the Dakota's." Diss., North Dakota State University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10365/25930.

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This research is composed of three essays. It highlights the driving factors of land conversion and crop acreage response focusing on North Dakota agriculture and estimates the benefits of conservation land measures at west central South Dakota watershed. The major questions that are addressed here are how and why agricultural producers decide among different land use choices, crop selection, and land conservation measures and how their decision vary over time? The first essay examines the long run land conversion trend interconnected with change in crop, oil, and ethanol prices, climate and r
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Florence, Darlene Christina. "Agronomic Land Management Effects on Soil Fertility and Grain Crop Productivity in Western Kenya and Ohio." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338341162.

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Benefer, Carly Marie. "The molecular and behavioural ecology of click beetles (Coleoptera: Elateridae) in agricultural land." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/485.

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The larvae (wireworms) of some click beetle genera inhabit the soil in agricultural land and are crop pests. In the UK, a pest complex of Agriotes species, A. obscurus, A. sputator and A. lineatus, has been identified as the cause of the majority of damage. However, studies on their ecology are lacking, despite knowledge of this being important for the development of sustainable risk assessment and pest management strategies, in part due to the morphologically cryptic nature of wireworms. The ecology of economically important click beetle species was investigated, focusing on UK Agriotes speci
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McClean, Gary James. "Impact of land-use change for lignocellulosic biomass crop production on soil organic carbon stocks in Britain." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19568.

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The contribution of energy from biomass sources is projected to increase in Britain to assist in meeting renewable energy targets and reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions. With increasing concerns over the sustainability of food crop-based biofuels, purpose-grown lignocellulosic biomass crops such as Miscanthus and short rotation coppice (SRC) willow have been promoted as more sustainable feedstocks for the production of heat and electricity as well as for the future production of liquid biofuels. With the introduction of the Energy Crops Scheme, land-use change (LUC) for lignocellulosic bioma
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Panozzo, Kimberly A. "A Validation of Nass Crop Data Layer in the Maumee River Watershed." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1470417001.

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Shueb, Saleh Saber. "Crop identification and area estimation through the combined use of satellite and field data for county Durham, northern England." Thesis, Durham University, 1990. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/6229/.

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This thesis investigates the use of combined field and satellite data for crop identification and area estimation in County Durham, Northeast England. The satellite data were obtained by the Thematic Mapper (TM) sensor onboard Landsat-5 on 31 May 1985. The TM data were geometrically corrected to the British National Grid and the county boundaries were digitized in order to apply the methodology used in this study on a county basis. The field data were obtained by applying a stratified random sampling strategy. The area was subdivided into five main strata and forty four 1km(_^2) sample units w
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Kyllmar, Katarina. "Nitrogen leaching in small agricultural catchments : modelling and monitoring for assessing state, trends and effects of counter-measures /." Uppsala : Dept. of Soil Sciences, Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://epsilon.slu.se/a485.pdf.

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Bohm, Kristina [Verfasser], and Thilo [Akademischer Betreuer] Streck. "Towards a better understanding of land surface exchange processes over agricultural crop stands / Kristina Bohm ; Betreuer: Thilo Streck." Hohenheim : Kommunikations-, Informations- und Medienzentrum der Universität Hohenheim, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1230468749/34.

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Gitonga, Jeremiah Njeru Lewis. "Monitoring and modeling crop growth, water use and production under dry-land environment North-West of Mount Kenya /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 2005. http://www.zb.unibe.ch/download/eldiss/05njeru_j.pdf.

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Omokanye, Akim Tunde, University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and Centre for Horticulture and Plant Sciences. "Biological and economic evaluation of maize-based cropping systems for Nigerian smallholders." THESIS_CSTE_HPS_Omokanye_A.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/797.

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Indigenous African shifting cultivation production systems, that were developed over many generations and took into account production potential as well as the constraints imposed by natural resources, are no longer practicable for Nigerian smallholder farmers. These systems relied on long fallow for fertility restoration after a period of cropping. Overpopulation has resulted in lower per capita land availability, necessitating a shift to sedentary cultivation systems. In such systems, fallow is short term (months) compared to shifting systems, where it lasted several years. This shift has re
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Thennakoon, T. M. S. P. K. "Influence of crop profitability, market, labour and land on smallholder cropping systems in rubber growing areas of Sri Lanka." Thesis, Bangor University, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395417.

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Rodjom, Abbey M. "Greenhouse Gas Fluxes of Soil in a Miscanthus x giganteus Crop Grown for Cellulosic Bioenergy on Abandoned Agricultural Land." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1524837572902621.

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Nagernyuk, D. "Environmentally safe and resource saving technologies as a method of increasing of oil crop production competitiveness." Thesis, Sumy State University, 2014. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/36215.

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Insufficient management of land of agricultural purpose, which have seen recently, leads to worsening of the quality structure of the soil, its degradation and reduction of fertility. Common thing was a short-term lease of land and growing monocrops such as sunflower during several years together (planted area under sunflower grew by 3.2 times from 1990 to 2012 (from 1636 ha to 5194 ha). Ukraine has taken the first place in the world since 2009 by the amount of production of sunflower seeds. 20% of the world acreage under sunflower crops is concentrated in the country. However, yielding capaci
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Wegner, Maus Victor, Gilberto Camara, Marius Appel, and Edzer Pebesma. "dtwSat: Time-Weighted Dynamic Time Warping for Satellite Image Time Series Analysis in R." Foundation for Open Access Statistics, 2019. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6808/1/v88i05.pdf.

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The opening of large archives of satellite data such as LANDSAT, MODIS and the SENTINELs has given researchers unprecedented access to data, allowing them to better quantify and understand local and global land change. The need to analyze such large data sets has led to the development of automated and semi-automated methods for satellite image time series analysis. However, few of the proposed methods for remote sensing time series analysis are available as open source software. In this paper we present the R package dtwSat. This package provides an implementation of the time-weighted dynamic
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Dross, Camille. "Stratégies d’utilisation des sols agricoles pour concilier production et oiseaux spécialistes des milieux agricoles." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016SACLA028/document.

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L’expansion et l’intensification agricole ont d’énormes conséquences sur la biodiversité. L’étude des compromis entre production et biodiversité peut aider au ciblage de mesures en faveur de la biodiversité.L’objectif de la thèse était de révéler des stratégies d’utilisation des sols agricoles qui permettraient d’enrayer le déclin des oiseaux agricoles tout en maintenant la production dans un territoire partagé entre grandes cultures et élevage de ruminants.Notre travail s’est basé sur l’étude de corrélations entre des variables décrivant l’utilisation des sols agricoles, la production agricol
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Paye, Paye Freddy Óscar. "Agronomic evaluation and comparison of the yield of six multiannual forage species, under dry land conditions in the Ingavi province." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2006. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5419.

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The agronomical evaluation and the comparative work of six multiannual forage species was conducted in the facilities of the Benson Institute, in the community of Contorno de Letanias, Ingavi province, La Paz. The objectives were to evaluate the agronomic behavior, as well as to evaluate the dry matter (DM) yield of six multiannual forage species (grasses) under local conditions, and to determine the partial cost of production of the studied species. The annual mean temperature was 9.14°C, and 517.6 mm of precipitation. The test was conducted under the random block design test, with six differ
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Ikazaki, Kenta. "Development of a Land Management Practice for Wind Erosion Control and Improvement of Crop Production in the Sahel, West Africa." Kyoto University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/120464.

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Kyoto University (京都大学)<br>0048<br>新制・課程博士<br>博士(農学)<br>甲第15421号<br>農博第1806号<br>新制||農||979(附属図書館)<br>学位論文||H22||N4520(農学部図書室)<br>27899<br>京都大学大学院農学研究科地域環境科学専攻<br>(主査)教授 舟川 晋也, 教授 縄田 栄治, 教授 間藤 徹<br>学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Chaumba, Joseph A. "Opportunities for and constraints on crop production within Zimbabwe's fast-track resettlement programme: A Case Study of Fair Range Estate, Chiredzi District, South Eastern Zimbabwe." Thesis, University of the Western Cape, 2006. http://etd.uwc.ac.za/index.php?module=etd&action=viewtitle&id=gen8Srv25Nme4_9563_1181914396.

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<p>The government of Zimbabwe started implementing its fast track resettlement programme in July 2000, the objective being to accelerate both land acquisition and land redistribution. This programme witnessed a massive movement of people from various localities into mainly large-scale commercial farms in search of agricultural land. Under this programme, people were settled under the A1 model (which involves villages and land use pattern similar to those found in communal areas) as well as the A2 model, which involves commercial farming. This study investigates, documents and analyses the oppo
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Schmidt, Anja, and Heiko Gläser. "Anbau von Zwischenfrüchten." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-89065.

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Mit dem Anbau von Zwischenfrüchten kann die Nitratbelastung des Grundwassers reduziert oder niedrig gehalten werden. Zwischenfrüchte verbessern und erhalten die Bodenfruchtbarkeit, erhöhen die biologische Bodenaktivität und bieten Schutz vor Erosion. Auf Feldversuchsanlagen wurden Stickstoffaufnahme, Biomasseerträge, Unkrautunterdrückung und die Kosten des Anbaus von Zwischenfrüchten und Zwischenfruchtgemenge untersucht und ausgewertet.
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