scholarly journals Synergies and trade-offs between yield, quality, resource use efficiency and environmental impact of potato production in China

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Wang
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Potato Production ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Yield Quality

Yield, resource use efficiency or flavour: Trade-offs of varying blue-to-red lighting ratio in urban plant factories

2022 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 110802
Author(s):  
Hao Zhou ◽  
Rhydian Beynon-Davies ◽  
Nicola Carslaw ◽  
Ian C. Dodd ◽  
Kirsti Ashworth
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Use Efficiency

scholarly journals A roadmap towards sustainable intensification for a larger global rice bowl

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen Yuan ◽  
Bruce Linquist ◽  
Lloyd Wilson ◽  
Kenneth Cassman ◽  
Alexander Stuart ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Agricultural Research ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Rice Production ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
High Resource ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Negative Environmental Impact ◽  
High Yields

Abstract Future rice systems will need to produce more grain while minimizing the environmental impact. A key question is how to orient agricultural research & development (R&D) programs at national to global scales to maximize the return on investment. Here we assess yield gap and resource-use efficiency (including water, pesticides, nitrogen, labor, and energy) across 32 rice cropping systems, together accounting for 88% of global rice production. We show that achieving high yields and high resource-use efficiencies are not conflicting goals. Most cropping systems have room for increasing yield, resource-use efficiency, or both. In aggregate, current total rice production of these systems can be increased by 36%, and excess nitrogen almost eliminated, by focusing on a relatively small number of cropping systems with large yield gaps and/or poor resource-use efficiencies. This study provides essential strategic insight for prioritizing national and global agricultural R&D investments to ensure adequate rice supply while minimizing negative environmental impact in coming decades.

scholarly journals Trade-Offs between Sustainability Indicators in Response to the Production Choices of Different Farm Household Types in Drylands

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Loubna El Ansari ◽  
Roza Chenoune ◽  
Yigezu A. Yigezu ◽  
Christian Gary ◽  
Hatem Belhouchette
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Production Systems ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Farm Household ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Limited Food ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Farming Households

A lot of national and international effort has been made to promote sustainable agricultural production systems in drylands. However, success has been seriously limited due to lack of thorough characterization of the impact of the diversity of farm household types on productivity, resource-use efficiency and economic and nutritional status. This study applied hierarchical ascendant classification to a random sample of 286 cereal-producing farm households in Morocco and identified distinct household typologies. It also carried out an analysis of trade-offs between economic, nutritional and environmental factors induced by the production decisions of the different farm household typologies. Our analysis identified three dominant farm household typologies in the production system, namely: (i) intensive predominantly-vegetable farming households with high input intensities, (ii) semi-intensive cereal mono-crop farming households with moderate input intensities and (iii) extensive mixed cereal-legume farming households with low input intensities. Extensive mixed cereal-legume farming households exhibited the highest resource-use efficiency and high biodiversity. These benefits, however, came at the expense of a much lower farm income and limited food supplies relative to the other two systems. These results show that, as is the case for many dryland regions, all three farm types showed precarious conditions for one or more of the sustainability-related indicators.

scholarly journals Critical Systematic Review of Zoonoses and Transboundary Animal Diseases’ Prioritization in Africa

Pathogens ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 976
Author(s):  
Serge Eugene Mpouam ◽  
Jean Pierre Kilekoung Mingoas ◽  
Mohamed Moctar Mouliom Mouiche ◽  
Jean Marc Kameni Feussom ◽  
Claude Saegerman
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Animal Health ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Parasitic Disease ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Animal Diseases ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Use Efficiency

Background: Disease prioritization aims to enhance resource use efficiency concerning human and animal health systems’ preparedness and response to the most important problems for the optimization of beneficial outcomes. In sub-Sahara Africa (SSA), several prioritizations of zoonoses and transboundary animal diseases (TADs) have been implemented at different scales to characterize potential disease impacts. Method and principal findings: In this systematic review, we analyze the methodologies used, outcomes, and their relevance by discussing criteria required to align decision-makers’ perceptions of impacts to those of other stakeholders for different prioritization in SSA. In general, the sectorial representativeness of stakeholders for processes implemented with the support of international partners showed slight differences with the absence of local stakeholders. Whatever the tool prioritized, zoonoses were similar in general because of the structured nature of those tools in assessing decision-makers’ preferences through value trade-offs between criteria while ensuring transparency and reproducibility. However, by involving field practitioners and farmers, there were different outcomes with processes concerning only decision makers and experts who were more sensitive to infectious TADs, while the former raised parasitic disease constraints. In this context, multicriteria decision analysis-based zoonoses and TADs prioritizations involving a balanced participation of stakeholders might contribute to bridging these divergences, whatever the scale. Conclusion and significance: Prioritization processes were important steps toward building and harmonizing technical laboratory and surveillance networks to coordinate projects to address priority zoonoses and TADs at the country and/or sub-regional level. Those processes should be enhanced.

Seafood-energy-water nexus: A study on resource use efficiency and the environmental impact of seafood consumption in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 277 ◽  
pp. 124088
Author(s):  
Gengyuan Liu ◽  
Mercy Arthur ◽  
Silvio Viglia ◽  
Jingyan Xue ◽  
Fanxin Meng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Seafood Consumption ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Efficiency

Resource Use Efficiency in Gram Production of Amravati Division

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 532-534
Author(s):  
Ganeshkumar D Rede ◽  
◽  
Dr. S. J. Kakde Dr. S. J. Kakde ◽  
Vanita Khobarkar
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Use Efficiency

Role of Finance in Resource use Efficiency and Constraints in Banana Cultivation in Uttar Pradesh

2020 ◽  
pp. 437-441
Keyword(s):  
Resource Use ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Resource Use Efficiency ◽  
Regular Source ◽  
Block Level ◽  
Use Efficiency ◽  
Secondary Information

The study was conducted using purposive cum random sampling technique and two hundred respondents comprised of 100 each borrowers and non-borrowers were selected from two block of district including marginal, small and medium categories of farm size. Primary data were collected through personal interview technique and required secondary information was taken from the record available at district and block level. Simple tabular and functional analysis and Garrett ranking were done to draw inferences. As per the result obtained from the study, no much difference was seen between the resource use efficiency of borrower and non-borrower farms and constraints faced by borrower. Since banana is a cash crop and it needs initial costs for its establishment, and after harvesting the crop regular source of income was generated by selling of suckers (seed) plant and its fruits. It’s by-product, leaves, etc. also used for various purposes. Minute inspection of the analysis showed that finance played important role for initiating the cultivation of banana crops showed the resource use efficiency that there is no considerable difference found on sample farms of borrower and non-borrower categories. Constraints faced by majority of the farmers were mainly delay in disbursement of loan and lack of the repayment period insufficient and improper management for withdraws on KCC.

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