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Grega, L. "Vertical integration as a factor of competitiveness of agriculture." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 49, No. 11 (March 2, 2012): 520–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/5441-agricecon.
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Vertical integration within agricultural and food sector is one of the decisive factors influencing market structure and competitiveness of agriculture. There are two groups of motives for vertical integration. Motive of efficiency is based on the effort to minimise production cost or transaction cost. Market power is not solely the result of horizontal expansion, but if variable inputs are considered, vertical integration may contribute to market power and so to growing share in consumer price. The article analyses and methodologically specifies these motives for vertical integration and determines possibilities of quantification of the effects of vertical integration.
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Kurcheeva, Galina, George Klochkov, and Anna Aletdinova. "Urbanization and development of vertical agriculture in Russia." E3S Web of Conferences 285 (2021): 01008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202128501008.
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This paper discusses new technologies for the production of high-quality agricultural products, which are environmentally friendly and the production of which is now associating not only to rural areas. According to the authors, the concept of a digital city is now widening; it includes new trends, when agricultural production extends its boundaries, including vertical agriculture and farming urbanization.
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Ulukent, Yiğit. "KENTLERDE DİKEY TARIM VE SÜRDÜRÜLEBİLİRLİK." e-Journal of New World Sciences Academy 16, no. 3 (July 30, 2021): 100–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.12739/nwsa.2021.16.3.5a0153.
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Vertical farming is a technological farming method that allows to grow crops without the need for large fields, soil and climatic cycles as in traditional agriculture. This method is becoming increasingly important due to the fact that water, pesticides, fertilizers, labor, equipment, energy and transportation costs are low, efficiency and quality are high, livestock can be carried out simultaneously, it improves the architecture and air of the city, and it will increase the interest and contribution of the city people to agriculture. Since it is predicted that the world population will be 10 billion in 2050, the ecological balance will deteriorate further and fertile land areas will rapidly decrease due to global warming, many countries have started to actively apply this agricultural method. Although the initial investment costs are high, this agricultural practice, which has high sustainability in terms of its contribution to the economy, ecology and social integration in the long term, will be the most important agricultural industry of the future. For this method, which is important in terms of sustainable agriculture, arrangements should be made in state policies and legal issues, financial resources should be allocated in our country, and the participation of academics, private sector, municipalities, farmers and urban society in the process should be ensured.
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Jensen, Kimberly L. "Industrialization in Agriculture: Discussion." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 27, no. 1 (July 1995): 35–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1074070800019568.
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Drabenstott and Davis and Langham both present insightful discussions of the causes and consequences of industrialization in agriculture. Their discussions address industrialization as defined by the Council of Food, Agriculture, and Resource Economics (CFARE). According to CFARE, industrialization includes two components, increased consolidation of farms and increased vertical coordination within the marketing channels for food and fiber. Davis and Langham focus primarily on the causes and consequences of increasing consolidation of farms, while Drabenstott focuses on the causes and consequences of vertical coordination. This definition of industrialization should be expanded to include consolidation of firms that provide inputs and services to agriculture and consolidation of firms that handle and process agricultural products.
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Sharma, Avinash, Megha Raghavan, Zhang Shi, and Nguyen Tran Hai Bang. "Utilization of protected cultivation for crop production and preservation in India." Environment Conservation Journal 22, no. 1&2 (June 4, 2021): 13–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.36953/ecj.2021.221203.
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The present paper discusses about the applications of protected cultivation for crop activities, and technology utilization in India. The crop production, management, plant propagation are applied at protected cultivation in sustainable agriculture. The advancement of technology is boosted in protected cultivation that transforms sustainable agriculture into modern agriculture. The various agricultural crops are practiced naturally after research progress in protected cultivation. The various sophisticated technologies like scientific farming, vertical farming, vertical farming with hydroponics, organic farming, micro-irrigation, organic fertigation, chemical fertigation, IPM, IDM, INM, farm machines & tools, aquaponic, micro green farming, in-situ crop preservation, azolla production and seed production are utilized in crop activity and academic & research. The modern technologies are constituted in protected cultivation that transforms modern agriculture into smart agriculture. It will promote land, water, waste land conservation. It would reform nutrient content of the soil, forbids soil erosion and soil pollution. It will provide employment opportunities, agricultural business, food security and rural development in India.
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Natalie, Caroline, and Martin Halim. "PERANCANGAN PERTANIAN VERTIKAL YANG TERINTEGRASI UNTUK MENGATASI MASALAH PANGAN MASA DEPAN." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 4, no. 1 (May 17, 2022): 503. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v4i1.16854.
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Based on existing data, people in Indonesia will migrate to urban areas which will cause population problems. One of them is the food problem, coupled with the fast demand for fresh food in the capital, which lacks planting media and sunlight. Vertical agriculture is considered to be one solution to this problem. However, until now there has been no special building for vertical agriculture that stands in the capital. This is because to build a special building for vertical agriculture requires a large amount of cost and energy. The vertical design approach by rethinking the typology based on the analysis of existing studies produces a typology of open masses and blocks as edges, a typology of terracing and grid patterns, the placement of vertical farms in buildings using solar energy sources and technology (hybrids), and hydroponic, aquaponic, and hydroponic cultivation methods. and aeroponics with retail and office programs as supporting programs that are directly integrated with vertical farming as the main program. So that the "Integrated Vertical Farming" project is expected not only to be able to answer food and environmental problems, but also the economy. Keywords: Food Problems; Program; Typology; Vertical Farming AbstrakBerdasarkan data yang ada, masyarakat di Indonesia akan bermigrasi ke daerah perkotaan yang akan menimbulkan masalah kependudukan. Salah satunya adalah masalah pangan, ditambah dengan permintaan bahan pangan segar yang cepat di ibukota yang minim media tanam dan matahari. Pertanian vertikal dinilai menjadi salah satu solusi masalah tersebut. Namun hingga kini belum ada bangunan khusus pertanian vertikal yang berdiri di ibukota. Hal tersebut dikarenakan untuk membangun bangunan khusus pertanian vertikal membutuhkan biaya dan energi yang cukup besar. Pendekatan perancangan pertanian vertikal dengan rethinking typology berdasarkan analisis studi yang ada menghasilkan tipologi massa yang terbuka dan blok sebagai tepi, tipologi pola terasering dan grid, penempatan pertanian vertikal pada bangunan dengan penggunaan sumber energi matahari dan teknologi (hybrid), dan metode penanaman hidroponik, akuaponik, dan aeroponik dengan program retail dan office sebagai program pendukung yang terintegrasi langsung dengan pertanian vertikal sebagai program utama. Sehingga proyek “Integrated Vertical Farming” ini diharapkan tidak hanya mampu menjawab permasalahan pangan dan lingkungan, tetapi juga ekonomi.
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SHELDON, IAN M. "THE COMPETITIVENESS OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT AND INPUT MARKETS: A REVIEW AND SYNTHESIS OF RECENT RESEARCH." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 49, no. 1 (December 29, 2016): 1–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aae.2016.29.
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AbstractThis article reviews literature on competitiveness of agricultural product and input markets. Although researchers in the United States and Europe emphasize different stages of the agricultural and food marketing system, their focus is similar: extent of buyer power, although both have largely ignored the sector supplying inputs to agriculture. The key conclusion is that there is little robust empirical evidence for food processing firms exerting buyer power, and there are limited data concerning vertical contracts between food processing and agriculture, but there is a small body of evidence concerning food retailer behavior and vertical coordination between food retailing and processing.
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Kalantari, Fatemeh, Osman Mohd Tahir, Ahmad Mahmoudi Lahijani, and Shahaboddin Kalantari. "A Review of Vertical Farming Technology: A Guide for Implementation of Building Integrated Agriculture in Cities." Advanced Engineering Forum 24 (October 2017): 76–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/aef.24.76.
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Recently, the application of Vertical Farming into cities has increased. Vertical farming is a cultivating vegetable vertically by new agricultural methods, which combines the design of building and farms all together in a high-rise building inside the cities. This technology needs to be manifest both in the agricultural technique and architectural technology together, however, little has been published on the technology of Vertical Farming. In this study, technology as one of the important factor of Vertical farming is discussed and reviewed by qualitative approach. In the first, identifying existing and future VF projects in Europe, Asia, and America from 2009 to 2016. Then a comprehensive literature reviewed on technologies and techniques that are used in VF projects. The study resources were formed from 62 different source from 2007 to 2016. The technologies offered can be a guide for implementation development and planning for innovative and farming industries of Vertical Farming in cities. In fact, it can act as a basis for evaluating prospective agriculture and architecture together. The integration of food production into the urban areas have been seen as a connection to the city and its residents. It simultaneously helps to reduce poverty, adds to food safety, and increases contextual sustainability and human well-being.
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de Anda, José, and Harvey Shear. "Potential of Vertical Hydroponic Agriculture in Mexico." Sustainability 9, no. 1 (January 20, 2017): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su9010140.
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Nijwala, Deepika. "Vertical Farming - An Approach to Sustainable Agriculture." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 9, no. 1 (January 31, 2021): 145–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2021.32771.
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Et. al., Gaganjot kaur,. "All about Vertical Farming: A Review." Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education (TURCOMAT) 12, no. 2 (April 10, 2021): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17762/turcomat.v12i2.644.
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Agricultural land is becoming scarce and expensive day by day. With the rising world population, demand for food and land is continuously increasing which is necessitating to maximize food production per unit area. So the eyes are turning to Vertical framing approach which involves growing crops in stacked layers one above another in order to provide more crop yield per unit area of land. This article summarizes the complete concept of emerging area of agriculture with its various categories and techniques used throughout the world.
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Bečvářová, V. "Issues of competitiveness of the present agriculture." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 54, No. 9 (September 24, 2008): 399–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/2698-agricecon.
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The paper deals with the crucial phenomena of changes of the entrepreneurial environment of agriculture caused by the globalisation processes in the agrarian sector and their connection with the criteria of competitiveness of the present agricultural enterprises. It examines the influence of forming agribusiness and the demand driven terms of commodity chains functioning on the position of agricultural companies and the directly related segments in the field of the processing of agricultural products from the perspective of achieving competitive advantage. In this connection, the methodological approach to competitiveness is discussed according to the horizontal level, i.e. the particular stage of production or processing of the final product, and the vertical level, i.e. the interconnection of the individual stages of the vertical and their share in the value added in the final product as a prerequisite of the successful participation in forming competitiveness.
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Juniawati, Juniawati, and Maulida Hayuningtyas. "Urban Agriculture Development : A Strategy to Support Food Security." KnE Life Sciences 2, no. 6 (November 26, 2017): 701. http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/kls.v2i6.1092.
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The enhancement of rural-urban migration flows impacts on the enhancement of urban population. It takes more efforts to fulfill the food demand. Now, 80% food stock in urban area is fulfilled from rural area and imports. Urban agriculture development is a strategy to improve food availability, food access and also to support food security. Some of urban agriculture models that have implemented and developed in many country were metropolitan food cluster, rooftop garden, community garden, and vertical farming. This paper is a literature review from various study, research and document relates with urban agriculture. Based on this study, urban agriculture can increase urban community prosperity, environmental sustainability and quality of health. Urban agriculture productivity needs agricultural technology innovation to ensure sustainability of production. Urban agricultural models that is integrated with agricultural technology innovation able to create a resilient urban food systems to accelerate the realization of food security. Keywords: urban agriculture; technological innovaton; food security
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Sreekar, Rachakonda, Richard T. Corlett, Salindra Dayananda, Uromi Manage Goodale, Adam Kilpatrick, Sarath W. Kotagama, Lian Pin Koh, and Eben Goodale. "Horizontal and vertical species turnover in tropical birds in habitats with differing land use." Biology Letters 13, no. 5 (May 2017): 20170186. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0186.
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Large tracts of tropical rainforests are being converted into intensive agricultural lands. Such anthropogenic disturbances are known to reduce species turnover across horizontal distances. But it is not known if they can also reduce species turnover across vertical distances (elevation), which have steeper climatic differences. We measured turnover in birds across horizontal and vertical sampling transects in three land-use types of Sri Lanka: protected forest, reserve buffer and intensive-agriculture, from 90 to 2100 m a.s.l. Bird turnover rates across horizontal distances were similar across all habitats, and much less than vertical turnover rates. Vertical turnover rates were not similar across habitats. Forest had higher turnover rates than the other two habitats for all bird species. Buffer and intensive-agriculture had similar turnover rates, even though buffer habitats were situated at the forest edge. Therefore, our results demonstrate the crucial importance of conserving primary forest across the full elevational range available.
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Zaręba, Anna, Alicja Krzemińska, and Renata Kozik. "Urban Vertical Farming as an Example of Nature-Based Solutions Supporting a Healthy Society Living in the Urban Environment." Resources 10, no. 11 (October 25, 2021): 109. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/resources10110109.
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The subject of the article concerns vertical urban farms that play an important role in nature-based solutions and ecosystem services for the city. In the face of a changing climate, progressive environmental degradation, and the related loss of agricultural land, vertical farms can be seen as an alternative to traditional agriculture. Woven into the blue-green infrastructure of cities, they may not only constitute a base for food production, but can also create a new valuable ecological, social, and economic hub in contemporary cities, changed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of this paper is to show whether it is possible to introduce various functions which support ecosystem and social services, and whether they affect measurable benefits for urban residents in a large-scale system of solutions in the field of vertical urban agriculture. This research shows that urban vertical farms can perform many functions and bring diverse benefits to the inhabitants of cities. In a multi-scale system, they allow for the creation of patchwork connections, which stabilise a specific city biome in the vertical space.
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Brodová, M., and M. Ševčíková. "The development of the price parity in the foodstuffs production and consumption vertical." Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) 49, No. 1 (February 29, 2012): 30–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.17221/5261-agricecon.
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The analysis of the development of prices in the foodstuffs vertical, it means the prices of inputs into the agriculture, agricultural products, food products and consumption prices of foodstuffs, on the basis of the price scissors, and with crucial products on the basis of the price shares and differences, has shown that price liberalisation with the applied partial regulation of their development within the market-oriented reform has evoked the greatest raise of prices within 1991–2001 regarding inputs into the agriculture, while prices of agricultural products were growing slower. The parity coefficient (the ratio of price indices) between the development of the prices of inputs and outputs became worse as of 1989 to the detriment of agriculture from 93.9 reached in 1990 to 50.3 in 2001, what means a significant opening of the price scissors to the detriment of agricultural producers. That situation was influenced mostly by the development in the first year of the reform but the trend of opening the price scissors, except for 1994, was persisting, though in the last two years the differences in the trends of the development of prices of inputs and outputs have been moderated. At the beginning of the development, the effect of the low level of the agricultural products prices was not adequately reflected in the prices of food producers and consequently in consumer prices. This was influenced mainly by the pressure of food producers evoked by the need of settlement of additional costs connected with the transformation, in particular to the detriment of the agricultural products prices (opening of the price scissors with the parity coefficient dropping from 90.8 in 1990 to 56.5 in 2001), but this negative trend has been stopped in the last two years. A gradual accommodation of demand and supply and a growing competition environment also through large retails established in our country has been reflected in closing the price scissors between the prices of food producers and consumer prices of foodstuffs (the parity coefficient raised from 76.6 in 1991 to 88.7 in 2001). The development of the shares and differences in prices as of 1994 pointed to a substantial differentiation in the development of prices in the vertical of the production and consumption of individual products what was effected by the applied regulation system as well. With milk and milk products, the majority of the evaluated products was showing a slightly raised share of the raw cow milk price in the final food products prices, and in the last three years, also the processor price share in the consumer price. This narrowed the difference between the producer and dealer prices. With slaughter cattle and the major kinds of beef, a gradual decline of the slaughter cattle price share in the processor price was interrupted in 2001, what, to a certain extent, was also caused by the crisis evoked by the BSE and by the minimum price which prevented transferring of these consequences, to a larger extent, to farmers. Similarly, in 2001, a non-standard situation occurred between the processor and consumer prices of the individual kinds of beef. With slaughter pigs and the evaluated kinds of pork, after the period of dropping slaughter pig prices share in the processor price of the major kinds of pork, its growth was recorded mostly in 2001, when the processor price share in the consumer price dropped as well.
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Ahearn, Mary Clare, Penni Korb, and David Banker. "Industrialization and Contracting in U.S. Agriculture." Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 37, no. 2 (August 2005): 347–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1074070800006830.
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This paper examines the industrialization process of U.S. agriculture by examining the trends in the number of farms, the concentration of production during the last decade, and the dynamics of farm survivability, entry, and exit underlying aggregate statistics. We next examine vertical coordination as part of the industrialization process and highlight contracting in the poultry industry. The analysis provides evidence that production is continuing to be concentrated on a smaller number of farms at a relatively rapid rate, in spite of the stability in the number of farms. Although contracting clearly dominates the broiler industry, it is less prevalent in egg and turkey production, where other forms of vertical coordination are likely established.
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Saddik, Amine, Rachid Latif, Abdelhafid El Ouardi, and Mohamed Elhoseney. "VSSAgri: A Vegetation Surveillance System for precision Agriculture application." E3S Web of Conferences 297 (2021): 01054. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202129701054.
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The integration of low-cost systems in precision agriculture applications has shown great benefits, both in terms of the variety of applications and the tools used. In this paper, we present a monitoring platform for agricultural applications based on low-cost systems—also, a review on the different applications of precision agriculture. The proposed platform contains a guidance system based on stepper motors, as well as an embedded architecture for processing the various applications. The guidance system helps to drive the system in the vertical axis for multispectral camera processing. The guidance system helps to move the system in the vertical axis for processing multispectral cameras and in the horizontal axis for the movement of the two bars that will support the system. This platform was inspired by the principle of the scanner, which aims to extract all the information by sliding the scan tool. In the same way, in our case, the sliding will allow us to process the whole agricultural field. The platform proposed in this work has shown that it can be used in different types of the greenhouse, as well as for all types of applications.
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Hajduk, Vladimir Ivanovich, Anna Viktorovna Kondrashova, and Maja G. Paremuzova. "VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN AGRICULTURE AS A TOOL FOOD SECURITY." Economy, labor, management in agriculture, no. 2 (2020): 57–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.33938/202-57.
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Babb, Emerson M. "Management and Financing of Vertical Coordination in Agriculture: Discussion." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74, no. 5 (December 1992): 1238–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242794.
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Paul, P. K., R. R. Sinha, A. Bhuimali, P. S. Aithal, and Ricardo Saavedra. "A Study on Emerging Methods and Ways in Agricultural Sciences: With Reference to Organic Farming." Asian Journal of Engineering and Applied Technology 9, no. 1 (May 5, 2020): 29–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/ajeat-2020.9.1.1081.
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Agricultural Sciences is an Applied Science but has its touch with social science due to its nature. It uses various kinds of tools, techniques, procedure, methods, principles of science; that is responsible for the cultivation of plants, crops, vegetables, livestock as well as animals. Agriculture is dedicated to the sedentary human civilization and by this people can meet their food demand. As far as the history of agriculture it is noted that agriculture as a concept emerged thousands of years before about 105,000 years ago and regarding the nascent farmers, it was about 11,500 years ago. Initially, animals were not considered within this but gradually various animals such as pigs, sheep and cattle became part of agricultural sciences since 10, 000 years ago. Farming normally considered as the cultivation in a small area whereas Agriculture is treated for a large area with huge place and expenditure. In today’s context, about 11 regions of the world are cultivating commercially. Agriculture as an interdisciplinary field is concerned with various disciplines and subjects; and this trend is growing rapidly. There are diverse areas and emerging nomenclatures emerged in Agriculture viz. Chemical Agriculture, Green revolution & Agriculture, Genetic engineering-based Agriculture, Organic Agriculture /Farming, Corporate Agriculture /Farming, Vertical Farming /Agriculture, etc. This paper is theoretical and empirical in nature. It analyzed various aspects of agriculture with special reference to the aspects, features, role, and emergence of three emerging types of agriculture viz. Organic Agriculture.
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Barry, Peter J. "Industrialization of U.S. Agriculture: Policy, Research, and Education Needs." Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 24, no. 1 (April 1995): 128–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1068280500003683.
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The industrialization of agriculture refers to the continued consolidation of farms and to the growing use of production and marketing contracts and vertical integration among input suppliers, lenders, agricultural producers, processors, and distributors of food and fiber products, domestically and globally. Industrialization is strongly affecting the structure and performance of farms and agribusiness firms; the distribution of risk, returns, and the ownership and control of resources in the food and fiber system; locations of production; competitiveness in international markets; the effectiveness of agricultural policy; business activity, income, family welfare and employment in rural communities; and environmental quality and control. Research is urgently needed to measure these effects, understand the complex underlying factors, and evaluate policy alternatives that influence and are influenced by the industrialization of agriculture.
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KIYONO, Seiki. "Vertical Chain Construction through Collaboration between Agriculture and Food Industry." Journal of Food System Research 19, no. 2 (2012): 117–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5874/jfsr.19.117.
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King, Robert P. "Management and Financing of Vertical Coordination in Agriculture: An Overview." American Journal of Agricultural Economics 74, no. 5 (December 1992): 1217–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1242790.
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Benke, Kurt, and Bruce Tomkins. "Future food-production systems: vertical farming and controlled-environment agriculture." Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy 13, no. 1 (January 2017): 13–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15487733.2017.1394054.
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Ioffe, Grigory, and Tatyana Nefedova. "Russian Agriculture and Food Processing: Vertical Cooperation and Spatial Dynamics." Europe-Asia Studies 53, no. 3 (May 2001): 389–418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09668130120045861.
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Arif, Dionisius Nathanael, and Priscilla Epifania Ariaji. "PENGEMBANGAN HUNIAN DAN PERTANIAN VERTIKAL DI BOGOR DENGAN PENDEKATAN DESAIN BERBASIS PERILAKU." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 3, no. 1 (May 30, 2021): 1063. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v3i1.10908.
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Future Farmer’s Dwelling in Bogor is a new typology which is the result of unification of two main program activity. The project which is located in Bogor, is a new kind of typology in the field of agriculture. The agricultural sector in Indonesia still use the traditional methods although there have been many developments that have occurred in agriculture field, but those advancements have not been implemented yet. As designing this project, the design method used is behavior-based architecture where the method is aimed to understand the behavioral habits of building users. As for the design strategies such as implementation of the newest methods and technology in agriculture like the efficiency of land area with the use of vertical farming methods, to save the amounts of water being used through hydroponic techniques which are also assisted by technology such as automatic regulation of water use which can be timed through a device. It is hoped that from the combination of all the methods can make an improvement for farmers productivity. Keywords: Farmers dwelling; Vertical Farming; Behavior; Hydroponic; Agriculture TechnologyAbstrakHunian Petani Massa Depan di Bogor merupakan sebuah bentuk tipologi baru yang berasal dari penggabungan dua buah program kegiatan utama. Proyek yang berlokasi di Bogor ini merupakan sebuah hal yang baru dalam bidang hunian dan agrikultur. Bidang agrikultur di Indonesia mayoritas masih menggunakan metode dan cara tradisional dalam prakteknya walaupun sudah banyak perkembangan-perkembangan yang sudah terjadi dalam bidang tersebut namun kemajuan ini masih belum fasih diterapkan di seluruh Indonesia. Metode perancangan yang digunakan adalah arsitektur berdasar perilaku dimana dengan metode tersebut ditujukan untuk memahami kebiasaan perilaku dari calon pengguna bangunan. Adanya strategi desain berupa penerapan perkembangan metode dan teknologi di bidang agrikultur seperti penggunaan luas lahan yang efisien dengan metode pertanian vertikal, penggunaan jumlah air yang efisien melalui teknik hidroponik yang juga dibantu teknologi seperti pengaturan otomatis penggunaan air yang dapat diautur waktunya melalui sebuah perangkat. Diharapkan agar perpaduan tersebut dapat meningkatkan produktivitas dari para petani yang menggunakan fasilitas pada proyek ini.
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Emmanuel, Shomefun Tobi, Awosope Claudius O. A., and Ebenezer O. Diagi. "Microcontroller-based Vertical Farming Automation System." International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) 8, no. 4 (August 1, 2018): 2046. http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/ijece.v8i4.pp2046-2053.
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Food is a basic necessity of life. It is the means by which man is nourished and strengthened to carry out his daily activities. The need for food for the upkeep of man has placed agriculture at the helm of man’s affairs on earth. With a rapidly increasing population on earth, man has invented newer and innovative ways to cultivate crops. This cultivation is mainly concentrated in rural areas of countries around the world; but with the massive urbanization happening in the world today; it is becoming increasingly difficult to have enough agricultural produce that will cater for the massive population. Taking Nigeria as a case study, the increased urbanization has placed a massive demand on land, energy and water resources within urban areas of the country. Majority of the food consumed in the urban areas is cultivated in the rural areas. This system however requires longer transportation times from rural areas to urban areas which lead to contamination and spoilage in many instances. This research paper provides a solution in which food crops can be cultivated easily in urban areas by planting in vertically stacked layers in order to save space and use minimal energy and water for irrigation.
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Shchetinina, Arina, Irina Potashova, and Elena Shchetinina. "Production of strawberry remontant in the conditions of the Krasnodar Territory." E3S Web of Conferences 203 (2020): 02014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202020302014.
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This article presents innovative methods of growing agricultural products, namely, elite remontant strawberries of the Elizabeth II variety in the conditions of greenhouse vertical cultivation using vermicompost organic fertilizer. The practical significance of the study consists in the development of measures, the implementation of which will solve the problems of agriculture resource-saving production, taking into account and adapted to the environmental relations. As part of the study, the authors proposed intensive cultivation of strawberry crops for the full calendar year, which increases the agricultural production efficiency. The authors proposed the economic and legal aspects of the intensification of agriculture in land use small areas. The analysis of the profitability of the enterprise using the methods described in the study.
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Gunter, Jessie, Keith M. Moore, Stephen Eubank, and Grace Tino. "Agricultural Information Networks and Adoption of Conservation Agriculture in East Africa." Journal of International Agricultural and Extension Education 24, no. 1 (April 15, 2017): 90–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5191/jiaee.2016.241109.
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Previous studies have shown that there is not one universal set of factors that contribute to smallholder farmers' adoption of Conservation Agriculture. However, network influences at the local and regional levels play a key role in innovation and technology diffusion. A major challenge in research dedicated to measuring these influences is representing farmer network structure. Mixed methods baseline and endline surveys on adoption of Conservation Agriculture and farmer information sources were carried out in 2010 and 2014 in Molo, Uganda (n=92), Kween, Uganda (n=94), and Kitale, Kenya (n=65). Network structure is explored at multiple levels: the meso-level, where agents serve as sources of vertical knowledge; and the micro level, where farmers spread new technologies horizontally, often through involvement in farmer groups and associations, and integrate them into existing local knowledge. The survey results indicate that farmers understood the three principles of Conservation Agriculture as independent concepts and that crop rotation is widespread. Adoption of minimum tillage increased significantly (p < 0.01) in the Ugandan sites, and knowledge of minimum tillage increased significantly in all research sites.
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Kharchenko, Tetyana. "Vertical integration as a factor of enhancing competitiveness of farming houses." ED/2019/1, no. 1 (March 2019): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.36742/2410-0919-2019-1-6.
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Introduction. Globalization processes in economy, transition towards sustainable development model require new ways of adaption to competitive environment. In situation of uncertainty, competitiveness agriculture depends on opportunity of effective interaction between all members of creation and promotion of product from manufacturers of raw material to distribution. It is effective collaboration creates the conditions to elevate competitiveness of all stakeholders. Practice of existing vertically-integrated companies in Ukraine, suggests that this form of engagement can provide lengthy competitive advantages for all participants of association and improve the standard of sphere of the village. Methods. The research is conducted on the basis of system and process approaches to the use of modern methods of change management. The works of domestic and foreign scientists are the materials for this study, as well as their own observations and developments. Such research methods are used in the written article as: comparative and analytical, observation, as well as statistical method of presenting information. Results. The article describes current state and development prospects the agrarian sector of Ukraine, the main results of activity, analyzes a number of negative trends, that hinder of effective activity of agriculture production, including the reduction of gross production of agriculture, need to diversification of the market narrowing of financial base of development of the agriculture, reduction in the number of small agriculture. Position on promising directions of the development of agro- industry market, namely the establishment vertically-integrated groups. Discussion. Future scientific researches should aim to find incentives for stimulating integrational ties in the agrarian sector of the Ukraine. Keywords: integration, integration associations, economic effect, cost savings, development, profit, competitiveness.
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Sengodan, Papathy. "An Overview of Vertical Farming: Highlighting the Potential in Malaysian High-Rise Buildings." Pertanika Journal of Science and Technology 30, no. 2 (March 3, 2022): 949–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.47836/pjst.30.2.06.
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Recently, there has been a surge of interest in sustainable agriculture to address the impact of urban paradigm shifts on food demand and supply. Vertical Farming (VF) has attracted considerable attention, both scholarly and economically, as a way forward to improve food security in urban areas. Previous studies have documented and reviewed the benefits of VF against traditional agriculture. However, most research papers have only focused on case studies from temperate climate regions. There is a surprising paucity of empirical research in urban farming specifically related to VF in tropical countries. This study set out to examine the new emerging agricultural innovation—VF—in various building typologies the growing system and explores the feasibility in Malaysian high-rise buildings. The findings also revealed several successful outcomes of ongoing urban farming projects in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, which can significantly contribute to the planning and development of VF in a tropical climate. As a result, critical assessment criteria were identified for the successful development of the VF system in urban areas. This study implies significant opportunities for Malaysia to implement VF in local high-rise buildings.
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Alekseev, Ivan, and Evgeny Abakumov. "Assessment of Soil Electrical Properties in Selected Agricultural Soils of Puchuncaví, Central Chile." Agriculture (Pol'nohospodárstvo) 66, no. 2 (July 1, 2020): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/agri-2020-0007.
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AbstractPrecision agriculture requires a wide sampling procedure to determine the spatial variability of soil properties for adequate assessment of soil state and appropriate recommendations. Electrical geophysical methods (i.e. vertical electrical resistivity sounding) allow performing rapid measurement of soil electrical properties directly from the soil surface to any depth without any mechanical disturbance of soil cover. Soil electrical properties are linked with many soil properties and could improve the quality and spatial coverage of soil surveys. The results obtained in our study using vertical electrical resistivity sounding confirmed the hypothesis of a high correlation between electrical resistivity and such soil properties as carbon and nitrogen content and silt content. The highest correlation (r > 0.9) was found for electrical resistivity and carbon content. It was also confirmed that significant correlations between electrical resistivity and soil properties are found mainly when soil properties are highly ranged. Perspectives for the applied method lie at the relationship between electrical resistivity and soil properties, such as texture class, clay content, carbon content, and cation exchange capacity. The results obtained in this work could be useful for complex precision agriculture, creating maps of agricultural soils, adequate methods of plant growth, and other issues of precision and conventional agriculture.
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Frediani, Kevin. "Vertical plant production as a public exhibit at Paignton Zoo." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 8 (November 13, 2010): 139–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2010.142.
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Paignton Zoo has undertaken a novel project together with a multinational plant technology group to build Europe’s first vertical growing facility. The project represents the first zoo-based sustainable growing laboratory. It is an example of how zoos and botanic gardens can demonstrate sustainability to their visitors, through reducing their own impacts on the environment and by using plant-based solutions to offset the impact of anthropogenic global change on biodiversity. Urban agriculture and High Density Vertical Growing technology should be seen as a valuable element that can help to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, most specifically goal number one: to end poverty and hunger, and goal number seven: to ensure environmental sustainability by taking pressure off habitats to service unsustainable cities through agricultural domestication or otherwise unsustainable land use.
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Beke Lisányi, Judit. "Integration Efforts in Agriculture." Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce 12, no. 1-2 (May 2, 2018): 91–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.19041/apstract/2018/1-2/12.
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The economic and political transition brought many challenges for the Hungarian agricultural sector. The break-up of large agricultural holdings had serious negative impacts on food production and on the export of agricultural products. Capital intensive profit-seeking intermediaries dominate the trading of agricultural goods that has injurious effects in terms of downward pressure on production prices and an increase in consumer prices. Cooperatives have a key role in effectively tackling the common challenges that small-scale producers have to face. More vertical integration along the food chain could contribute to providing rural employment and to an increase in living standards in rural areas. This study reviews the development, the specific features and the driving forces of modern cooperatives in Central Europe in general, and in Hungary in particular. The focus is on the integrator role of cooperatives and their future role in our globalised world.
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Shagaida, N. I. "Assessing the size of agricultural holdings." Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 10 (October 7, 2020): 105–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2020-10-105-116.
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The article clarifies the concept of “agricultural holding”, using an approach to assessing the size on the basis of the total revenue of all agricultural organizations within the agricultural holding. It has been revealed that only 100 of the total number of agricultural holdings that were identified can be attributed to large business entities. They comprise about 3% of agricultural organizations in the country, while their share in the proceeds is about 37%. A large share of agricultural holdings — large business subjects under the control of Russian entities operate in one, and under the control of foreign legal entities — in three or more regions of the Russian Federation. Vertical integration within the framework of large agricultural holdings with different schemes for including the stages of processing and sale of products produced in their agricultural organizations allows them to receive advantages. Strengthening the role of large business entities in agriculture puts on the agenda the issue of differentiating approaches to taxation and state support in agriculture, depending on the size of the companies’ agricultural businesses.
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Lánský, J., and D. Mareš. "Liquidity and Stability of Agriculture in the Czech Republic." Scientia Agriculturae Bohemica 48, no. 3 (September 1, 2017): 177–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/sab-2017-0024.
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Abstract This article is based on empirical research and 2007–2012 statistical data from joint stock companies which were active in the agriculture sector of the Czech Republic. It deals with the wider aspects of liquidity and stability using suitable liquidity indicators and a vertical financial analysis over a sufficient period of time providing valid results for assessing liquidity and stability of agriculture in relation to cyclic fluctuations. The vertical financial analysis was performed to determine the liquidity structure at current assets and short term debts. Then convenient indicators of current ratio, quick ratio, and cash ratio were applied and interpreted in relation to cyclical deviations and agriculture specifics. From the viewpoint of liquidity measured using the current ratio, agriculture in the Czech Republic is stable and the current ratio values bear witness to solid liquidity, whereby the short-term assets exceed the short-term external funds. Research is to show whether the agriculture sector is liquid and whether the liquidity indicators provide the basis for solvency in the given field.
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Yeremia, Darren Ariel, and Nina Carina. "VERTICAL FARMING SEBAGAI UPAYA KONSERVASI EKOLOGI BUMI." Jurnal Sains, Teknologi, Urban, Perancangan, Arsitektur (Stupa) 3, no. 2 (February 3, 2022): 2199. http://dx.doi.org/10.24912/stupa.v3i2.12316.
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Food has always been a staple need for humans. And humans always have so many ways to keep producing food in larger quantities and better qualities with a lot of variety. The activity of producing food always has a strong connection to the ecosystem condition of where the human population resided. One of the most contributing elements to food production for the human population is the agricultural industry. As one of the most contributor to human food production, technological advancement in the agricultural industry has always been the main topic of researches related to food. But recently these advancements have affected the ecology. For example, the use of pesticide and other chemicals becomes pollution for rivers and lakes around farms. Conventional agriculture requires a lot of area to sustain human food needs. These areas are taken from many natural ecologies like rainforests or other bio-spheres, the damages done to nature will affect the natural food chain and eventually affects humanity itself. The use of vertical spaces of human cities can be used as an alternative to the ever expanding needs of space for the food industry. This concept is called “Vertical Farming”. this effort can be the solution for humans who now live mostly in cities to provide for their own, without damaging the ecology more. Ragunan Stack Farm : Producing Food From City for The City is an architectural effort to move food industry activities back to cities, using sustainable development approach and energies as an approach to go beyond ecology. Keywords : Agriculture; Beyond Ecology; Consumption; Population; Stack Farming; Vertical Farming AbstrakMakanan adalah kebutuhan pokok manusia. Manusia memiliki berbagai macam cara untuk terus menghasilkan makanan dengan jumlah yang semakin banyak dan kualitas yang bervariasi. Kegiatan untuk produksi makanan ini selalu memiliki koneksi yang erat dengan keadaan ekosistem dimana populasi manusia itu berada. Industri pertanian merupakan salah satu kontributor terbesar produksi makanan. Sebagai sumber utama bahan baku makanan manusia, kemajuan teknologi industri pertanian menjadi fokus utama riset pangan. Kemajuan ini banyak mempengaruhi ekologi. Penggunaan pestisida dan zat kimia dalam industri pertanian mengakibatkan polusi air bagi sungai dan danau di sekitar lahan pertanian. Pertanian konvensional membutuhkan area yang sangat luas untuk menopang kebutuhan pangan manusia. Dengan memanfaatkan ekosistem alami seperti hutan hujan dan jenis bio-sphere lainnya, rusaknya keadaan alam juga menghancurkan rantai makanan alami yang lambat laun akan mempengaruhi manusia itu sendiri. Pemanfaatan ruang-ruang vertikal kota dapat menjadi salah satu solusi alternatif dari industri makanan yang selalu harus bertumbuh. Konsep ini biasa disebut sebagai program “Vertical Farming”. Upaya ini dapat menjadi solusi bagi manusia yang sekarang banyak tinggal di kota untuk memenuhi kebutuhannya tanpa harus merusak keadaan ekologi lebih jauh lagi. Tani Tumpuk Ragunan; Produksi Makanan dari Kota Untuk Kota merupakan upaya desain secara arsitektural untuk mengembalikan kegiatan produksi makanan ke dalam kota dengan memanfaatkan tenaga-tenaga terbarukan sebagai bentuk pendekatan melampaui ekologi.
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Ferrario, Viviana. "Learning from Agricultural Heritage? Lessons of Sustainability from Italian “Coltura Promiscua”." Sustainability 13, no. 16 (August 9, 2021): 8879. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13168879.
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Agricultural heritage is gaining increasing importance as a repository of lessons to be learned for more sustainable agriculture in the future. Among the forgotten European agricultural heritage, the Italian grapevine “coltura promiscua,” which integrates agroforestry and intercropping, survives only in a few regions in the form of relics. Based on geographic, historic, agricultural literature published on the subject between 16th and 20th century with a focus on North eastern Italy, on previous fieldwork research, and on the analysis of recent candidacies to the Italian National register, this contribution identifies five principles that can be considered today as lessons of sustainability in agriculture: vertical intensification, spatial multifunctionality, resilience through crop diversity, labour-intensive production, personal/familiar/community attachment. Taken together, these principles describe a new rationality that seems to adapt to changed global and local conditions and can suggest new strategies to design new sustainable agricultural systems. The research suggests that sustainability principles can be found both by studying relics of agriculture heritage, and by carefully reading the literature that described them in the past, well before the concept of sustainability itself appeared in the scientific debate. Finally, this paper highlights some difficulties in practicing these lessons in modern agroforestry systems and suggests directions for future research.
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Csizmásné Tóth, Judit. "The relationship between agricultural strategy and integration in the poultry industry." Analecta Technica Szegedinensia 8, no. 2 (May 12, 2014): 114–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/analecta.2014.2.114-119.
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Agricultural strategy has always played a major role in the development of agriculture. Its role is perceivable when reviewing the state of the integration of the poultry industry before and after the transition of the political system. Before the transition, both horizontal and vertical integration solutions were present in the poultry industry in Hungary, however, after the transition only vertical integration solutions remained. The current agricultural strategy (National Rural Strategy 2012-2020) and the sectoral strategy developed by the PPC (Hungarian Poultry Product Council) lays great emphasis on the promotion of forms of integration in accordance with the objectives of the CAP 2014-2020. The level of integration of the poultry industry in Hungary has not yet reached that of Western Europe, as in [1], therefore it is very important to support the existing forms of integration in this sector and to encourage the establishment of further integration.
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Hendrickson, J., G. F. Sassenrath, D. Archer, J. Hanson, and J. Halloran. "Interactions in integrated US agricultural systems: The past, present and future." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 23, no. 04 (July 4, 2008): 314–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170507001998.
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AbstractDuring the 20th century, American agriculture underwent dramatic changes. At the beginning, farms were more diverse, dependent on animal traction, on-farm inputs and income and, after initial land grants, nearly independent of government policy. However, external issues, such as government policies, mechanization, fossil fuel costs, increased consolidation and vertical integration of markets and increased societal awareness of the environment and concern with farming practices, have substantially altered the structure of agriculture. These external issues are significant drivers of agriculture and we grouped them into social/political, economic, environmental and technological drivers. Previous papers have examined specific effects of these drivers. Our objective is to examine how these drivers interact and influence today's agricultural systems. We developed four categories: (1) Commodity Crop Production, (2) Supply Chain Livestock Production, (3) Organic Production and (4) Extensive Livestock Production, to describe major current agricultural systems. These categories were developed as major and contrasting systems but do not represent all of American agriculture. Although it is not possible to predict the future, interactions among the various drivers will affect these systems differently. By examining multiple scenarios, we conclude the highly specialized systems (Nos. 1 and 2) are highly vulnerable to future changes, and that developing adaptive capacity is critical for dealing with new uncertainty. Sustainable agricultural systems will need balance among various domains to be able to adapt and survive. We suggest that the concept of dynamic-integrated agricultural systems may be the best way to meet this goal because of its ability to consider multiple goals and flexible producer decision-making.
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Kolagar, Milad. "Adherence to Urban Agriculture in Order to Reach Sustainable Cities; a BWM–WASPAS Approach." Smart Cities 2, no. 1 (January 27, 2019): 31–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities2010003.
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Today, the uncontrolled urban expansion and ever-increasing rise of construction have caused the need for food, urban greenery, and a healthy environment to be felt more than any other time. On the other hand, population growth and the reduced production of agricultural products and food have jeopardized food security in urban areas, which will endanger the sustainable development of cities. However, the main problem, in which many societies are involved, is how to respond to these needs in a sustainable way. One of the ways of responding to these dilemmas in large cities is the purposeful implementation of urban agriculture. Urban agriculture development, as an important issue, requires the adoption of fundamental and logical policies. In this regard, this research was conducted to evaluate the extent of adherence to urban agriculture in Iran’s eight densely populated cities using a new combined approach of the best–worst method (BWM) and weighted aggregated sum product assessment (WASPAS). The results indicated that urban agriculture still has a long way to go and should be considered more seriously. Moreover, vertical farming has been suggested as one of the ways of promoting urban agriculture in the country and smoothing the way to sustainable development.
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Bogachev, D. V. "Transformation of the agriculture in russia: Significance of present-day vertical integration." Regional Research of Russia 5, no. 4 (October 2015): 392–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1134/s2079970515040073.
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Epting, Shane. "Participatory Budgeting and Vertical Agriculture: A Thought Experiment in Food System Reform." Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 29, no. 5 (August 4, 2016): 737–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10806-016-9631-x.
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Diestelhorst, Elise, Jan Lukas Storck, Bennet Brockhagen, Timo Grothe, Inken Blanca Post, Thorsten Bache, Rumen Korchev, Anke Rattenholl, Frank Gudermann, and Andrea Ehrmann. "Necessary Parameters of Vertically Mounted Textile Substrates for Successful Cultivation of Cress for Low-Budget Vertical Farming." TEKSTILEC 64, no. 4 (December 2, 2021): 276–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.14502/tekstilec2021.64.276-285.
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A growing population needs an expansion of agriculture to ensure a reliable supply of nutritious food. As a variable concept, vertical farming, becoming increasingly popular, can allow plant growth for local food produc¬tion in the vertical sense on, e.g. facades in addition to the classical layered structure in buildings. As substrates, textile fabrics can be used as a sustainable approach in terms of reusability. In our experiment, we investigated which properties a textile should possess in order to be suitable for an application in vertical farming by the example of cress seeds. To determine the best-fitted fabric, four different textiles were mounted vertically, and were provided with controlled irrigation and illumination. Our results showed that a hairy textile surface as provided by weft-knitted plush is advantageous. There, the rooting of cress plants used in this experiment is easier and less complicated than along tightly meshed, flat surfaces, as for woven linen fabrics.
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Stauber, Karl N. "The futures of agriculture." American Journal of Alternative Agriculture 9, no. 1-2 (June 1994): 9–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s088918930000549x.
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AbstractOne widely held view of the future of American agriculture is that it will continue the current trend toward fewer but larger farms, greater centralization and vertical integration, and declining rural populations. If so, the research, teaching and extension institutions created to serve agriculture will not survive unless they can adapt to changing political and demographic conditions, especially the domination of the suburbs. This will require these institutions to set new goals for themselves. Their historic pursuit of increased technical efficiency already has been so successful that it has sharply reduced the farm population, which has been their main base of public support. Suburban America, in contrast, will demand an agriculture that is more in harmony with nature. Alternative notions of the Common Good can provide the philosophical basis for this shift Historically, the economic system, including agriculture, has regarded nature as something to be used to advance human well-being. In this view (which could be called “Liberal” in the 19th century sense of the term), the reason to protect nature is to insure that it can continue to serve human needs. In contrast, the “Ecocentric” view of the Common Good emphasizes that humans are part of an ecological community, and that we must optimize the balance between human needs and the health of the ecosystem.
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Ranganathan, Jai, R. J. Ranjit Daniels, M. D. Subash Chandran, Paul R. Ehrlich, and Gretchen C. Daily. "Sustaining biodiversity in ancient tropical countryside: Fig. 1." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, no. 46 (November 3, 2008): 17852–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0808874105.
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With intensifying demands for food and biofuels, a critical threat to biodiversity is agricultural expansion into native tropical ecosystems. Tropical agriculture, particularly intensive agriculture, often supports few native organisms, and consequently has been largely overlooked in conservation planning; yet, recent work in the Neotropics demonstrates that tropical agriculture with certain features can support significant biodiversity, decades after conversion to farmland. It remains unknown whether this conservation value can be sustained for centuries to millennia. Here, we quantify the bird diversity affiliated with agricultural systems in southwest India, a region continuously cultivated for >2,000 years. We show that arecanut palm (Areca catechu) production systems retain 90% of the bird species associated with regional native forest. Two factors promote this high conservation value. First, the system involves intercropping with multiple, usually woody, understory species and, thus, has high vertical structural complexity that is positively correlated with bird species richness. Second, the system encompasses nearby forests, where large quantities of leaf litter are extracted for mulch. The preservation of these forests on productive land traces back to their value in supplying inputs to arecanut cultivation. The long-term biodiversity value of an agricultural ecosystem has not been documented in South and Southeast Asia. Our findings open a new conservation opportunity for this imperiled region that may well extend to other crops. Some of these working lands may be able to sustain native species over long-time scales, indicating that conservation investments in agriculture today could pay off for people and for nature.
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Abdullah, Meshal J., Zhengyang Zhang, and Kazuyo Matsubae. "Potential for Food Self-Sufficiency Improvements through Indoor and Vertical Farming in the Gulf Cooperation Council: Challenges and Opportunities from the Case of Kuwait." Sustainability 13, no. 22 (November 13, 2021): 12553. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132212553.
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The countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are considered food secure due to their ability to import sufficient food to meet their populations’ demand, despite considerable environmental limitations to conventional agriculture. However, over-reliance on externally produced food leaves these countries vulnerable to food shortages during crises that disrupt international production and shipping. Advanced Controlled Environment Agriculture technology has the potential to improve food self-sufficiency by multiplying vegetable crop yields while optimizing efficiency of agricultural inputs and minimizing land requirements. This paper demonstrates how approximately 15 km2 of indoor farms or less than 0.1 km2 of vertical farms could reduce or eliminate the need to import six important vegetable crops in the State of Kuwait. If properly contextualized and supported by clear legislation and well-managed regulatory bodies, indoor agriculture initiatives may provide a pathway for GCC countries to reduce their dependence on imported foods and increase resilience to food supply disruption during disasters or conflict. This case study contextualizes the need for improved food self-sufficiency in light of vulnerabilities from regional and global threats, illuminates unique challenges faced by GCC countries considering adoption of the proposed technologies, and summarizes opportunities inherent in the current legal and policy framework.
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Lopatynskyi, Yurii, and Andzey Halytskyi. "Ecological analysis of sustainable agrarian development in climate change." Economic Analysis, no. 29(4) (2019): 35–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.35774/econa2019.04.035.
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Introduction. Ecological factors play an important role in the concept of sustainable development. This role is enhanced in the context of climate change in general and taking into account the sectoral attributes of these changes, in particular. Agriculture and the agricultural sector in general are directly related to the use and impact of natural resources. The purpose of the study is to outline the elements of sustainable agricultural development on the basis of environmental analysis, which is updated in the context of global climate change. Results. The ecological components of agricultural development of Ukraine are considered. The main factors of global climate change, including agriculture, which accounts for one third of carbon dioxide emissions, are identified. Based on the method of a comparative analysis, a two-way relationship is established between the impact of agriculture on climate change, on the one hand, and the reverse impact of environmental change on agriculture, on the other hand. Balancing these mutual impacts, potential losses and strategic capabilities is appropriate on the base of the sustainable development concept, taking into account its goals (2016-2030). The need to take into account different views determines the feasibility of developing and implementing a set of measures within the framework of “nationally defined participation”. It is important to outline the prospects for the development of Ukrainian agriculture on the principles of greening, to which we include: institutional self-regulation (independent decision-making) of agricultural entities; reconsideration of agricultural product range and bringing new varieties of plants. Horizontal integration of farms and vertical integration in the agricultural sector within the framework of closed production cycles are also on this list. New perspectives for rural development and agricultural producers are emerging in the context of decentralization and enhancement of the role of integrated territorial communities. It is crucial to create institutional conditions to encourage producers to comply with the requirements of minimizing polluting effects on the environment. Sectoral institutions (professional and interprofessional associations in the agro-food sector) should be effective tools in delegating some of the authorities to regulate the activities of agricultural market entities.
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O’Sullivan, Cathryn A., Graham D. Bonnett, C. Lynne McIntyre, Ian B. Dry, and Lekha Sreekantan. "Increasing the Diversity of Crops That Can Be Grown in Urban and Vertical Farms." Proceedings 36, no. 1 (January 5, 2020): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036037.
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