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AGRISprovides a great opportunity to increase analysis of agricultural performance and, consequently, help inform agriculture investment, innovation and policy to drive changes toward increasing sustainability in the agriculture sector. The platform provides free access to more than13 million...
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全球粮食系统正站在十字路口。农业必须应对饥饿和营养不良的挑战，而且要面对人口增长、自然资源包括水土资源压力增加、生物多样性丧失以及气候变化带来的不确定因素。过去作出的努力聚焦于提高农业产出以生产更多粮食，今天的挑战（包括气候变化）需要采取新的方式应对。 需要向更加可持续的粮食系统转型，即向产量更高、社会经济效益更大而其环境影响减少的粮食系统转型。许多国家中农业被视为环境的敌人，然而，人们日益认识到，一个再生性多产的农业部门能够在创造农业就业和维持生计的同时提供环境利益和服务。生态农业的基础是应用生态理念和原则，优化植物、动物、人与环境之间的互动，...
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Global spatial database on water and agriculture.
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Biochar is the carbonaceous solid product of biomass pyrolysis which can be used as chemical feedstock for various purposes such as energy production, and adsorption of pollutants. In particular, application of biochar to the soil is gaining greater interests, which can reduce fertilizer...
- It is widely accepted that by 2050 the world will host 9 billion people. To accomodate this number, current food production will need to almost double. Land is scarce and expanding the area devoted to farming is rarely a viable or sustainable option. Oceans are overfished and climate change and...
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Detailed descriptions of more than 600 grassland species (common names, genus, and latin names) and a linked picture gallery of photos
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Welcome to AIMS AIMS is a portal with information about and access to standards, technology and good practices. It is also a forum for connecting information management workers worldwide and for discussing open access and open data. AIMS stands for collaboration and interoperability.
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AquaCrop is the crop growth model developed by FAO to address food security and assess the effect of the environment and management on crop production. AquaCrop simulates the yield response of herbaceous crops to water and is particularly well suited to conditions in which water is a key limiting...
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Properly constructed and operated brick kilns are without doubt one of the most effective methods of charcoal production. They have proved themselves over decades of use to be low in capital cost, moderate in labour requirements and capable of giving surprisingly good yields of quality charcoal...
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The earliest industrial, use of charcoal, more than four thousand years ago, was as a reductant for iron smelting to change iron oxide into metallic iron. But charcoal was already well known as a high grade smokeless fuel for cooking and domestic heating. With the emergence of industrial society...