scholarly journals Editorial: Smarter Farming: New Approaches for Improved Monitoring, Measurement and Management of Agricultural Production and Farming Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt J. Bell ◽  
Alexis Comber
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
New Approaches

scholarly journals Agricultural subsidies and global greenhouse gas emissions

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Laborde ◽  
Abdullah Mamun ◽  
Will Martin ◽  
Valeria Piñeiro ◽  
Rob Vos
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Consumer Prices ◽  
High Emission ◽  
The Government ◽  
Agriculture And Food ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Global Emissions

AbstractAgricultural production is strongly affected by and a major contributor to climate change. Agriculture and land-use change account for a quarter of total global emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG). Agriculture receives around US$600 billion per year worldwide in government support. No rigorous quantification of the impact of this support on GHG emissions has been available. This article helps fill the void. Here, we find that, while over the years the government support has incentivized the development of high-emission farming systems, at present, the support only has a small impact in terms of inducing additional global GHG emissions from agricultural production; partly because support is not systematically biased towards high-emission products, and partly because support generated by trade protection reduces demand for some high-emission products by raising their consumer prices. Substantially reducing GHG emissions from agriculture while safeguarding food security requires a more comprehensive revamping of existing support to agriculture and food consumption.

scholarly journals Canterbury farming: production, processing and farming systems

2010 ◽  
pp. IX-VIII ◽  
Author(s):  
R.A. Dynes ◽  
V.T. Burggraaf ◽  
C.G. Goulter ◽  
D.E. Dalley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Regional Council

Canterbury is of great significance to New Zealand's agricultural production, with approximately 20% of its farmland. The Region is the largest in New Zealand (by Regional Council boundaries), with 3 m ha of agricultural and exotic forestry land.

Limitations and Impacts of Agricultural Production on the Savanna Belt: the Nigerian Case

1995 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chijioke C. Onyebuchi
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Limiting Factors ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Nigerian Savanna

It is not enough simply to identify the limiting factors to agricultural production, supply the appropriate inputs and then expect to be able to meet food demands. It is essential also to protect the environment in which food is grown, especially in areas of fragile ecosystems and harsh climatic conditions, in order to ensure both increased production and stability of the production base. In the Nigerian savanna belt, traditional and mechanized large-scale farming systems are both practised, and they combine with unfavourable climatic conditions to exert a strong negative impact on the environment. Here, these interactions are examined and the case is made for incorporating fundamental ecological principles and concepts of sustainability into farming systems, in Nigeria and elsewhere.

scholarly journals Introduction: Food, Famine, and the Chinese State

1982 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 687-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian M. Li
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Chinese State ◽  
Natural Cycles

This article delineates new approaches to the study of food and famine in Chinese history. Drawing primarily from the three other articles in the symposium, the author asks in what ways the Chinese state, primarily in the high Qing period, affected population growth, agricultural production, natural cycles, and food distribution, and what a historical perspective suggests about the People's Republic of China's efforts to feed its population.

scholarly journals The use of automatic and parallel driving systems in agricultural production of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the efficiency of their use

2020 ◽  
Vol 196 (5) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Yuriy Polischuk ◽  
Nikolay Laptev ◽  
Artem Komarov
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Consumption ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Precision Farming ◽  
Total Cost ◽  
Comparative Tests ◽  
Automatic Driving ◽  
Gps Navigation ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Economic Indices

Abstract. Precision farming systems are being intensively introduced into the agricultural production of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Based on the data of development firms and dealerships centers, precision farming allows the cost of fertilizing, seeds, plant protection products and fuels and lubricants to be reduced by an average of 20 %. In doing so, the possibilities of obtaining efficiency from the use of precision farming systems under certain conditions of their use have not been fully studied. The aim of the work was to determine the impact of parallel and automatic driving systems on the technical and operational as well as economic indices during comparative tests in the North Kazakhstan region of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Research methods. During process of conducting comparative tests, the test conditions, agrotechnical, energy, operational and technological as well as economic indices of aggregates equipped with parallel and automatic driving systems and without systems were determined. All indices were determined in accordance with the requirements of current state standards. Results. In the article are presented the results of comparative tests of a self-moving sprayer on chemical weeding of wheat and flax crops, as well as a combine harvester for wheat harvesting in the conditions of Northern Kazakhstan. The use of GPS navigation and automatic control on the chemical weeding of grain and oilseeds crops contributes to an increase in productivity by 14.6 %, reduction in specific energy consumption by 8 %, fuel consumption by 17.0 %, and working fluid consumption by 14.5 %. In doing so, the total cost of money is reduced by 9 %, the annual savings of the total cost of money is 6562.6 thousand tenge (1093.7 thousand rubles). Using a parallel driving system (GPS-navigation with a course indicator) for harvesting wheat leads to an increase productivity by 2.1 %, reduction of total cost of money by 3 %, labor costs and specific fuel consumption by 1.4 %, while the annual savings of total cost of money is 233.4 thousand tenge (38.9 thousand rubles). The scientific novelty. In the conditions of the Northern region of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the influence of parallel and automatic driving systems on the technical, operational and economic performance of machine-tractor units was studied for the first time.

scholarly journals A cultivated planet in 2010: 2. the global gridded agricultural production maps

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qiangyi Yu ◽  
Liangzhi You ◽  
Ulrike Wood-Sichra ◽  
Yating Ru ◽  
Alison K. B. Joglekar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Data Repository ◽  
Spatially Explicit ◽  
Allocation Model ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Spatial Production ◽  
Crop Area ◽  
Administrative Units

Abstract. Data on global agricultural production are usually available as statistics at administrative units, which does not give any diversity and spatial patterns thus is less informative for subsequent spatially explicit agricultural and environmental analyses. In the second part of the two-paper series, we introduce SPAM2010 – the latest global spatially explicit datasets on agricultural production circa year 2010 – and elaborate on the improvement of the SPAM (Spatial Production Allocation Model) dataset family since year 2000. SPAM2010 adds further methodological and data enhancements to the available crop downscaling modeling: it not only applies the latest global synergy cropland layer (see Lu et al., submitted to the current journal) and other relevant data, but also expands the estimates of crop area, yield and production from 20 to 42 major crops under four farming systems across a global 5 arc-minute grid. All the SPAM maps are freely available at the MapSPAM website (http://mapspam.info/), which not only acts as a tool for validating and improving the performance of the SPAM maps by collecting feedbacks from users, but also dedicates as platform providing archived global agricultural production maps for better targeting the Sustainable Development Goals by making proper agricultural and rural development policies and investments. In particular, SPAM2010 can be downloaded via an open-data repository (DOI: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/PRFF8V, IFPRI, 2019).

scholarly journals Graywater Reuse: The Effects on Income and Agricultural Production Sustainability of Family Farming Systems in the Semiarid Region of Ceará, Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Maria Josiell Nascimento da Silva ◽  
Ahmad Saeed Khan ◽  
Patrícia Verônica Pinheiro Sales Lima
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Water Reuse ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Treated Group ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Semiarid Region ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Graywater Reuse

The semi-arid region of Ceará is a Brazilian area that is exposed to long and frequent periods of drought. Water scarcity is a threat to the population’s well-being and agricultural activities. We evaluated the effects of graywater reuse for agriculture on income and sustainability of agricultural production in the municipality of Iguatu, located in the semiarid region of the state of Ceará. It is an important research because it deals with a strategy that aims to reduce farmers’ vulnerability to the lack of water. There are no studies that assess the impacts of water reuse in the region. The propensity score matching technique was applied, and primary data were obtained by interviewing beneficiaries (treated group) and non-beneficiaries (control group). The results showed that the program has effects on sustainable agricultural production of small farmers because of the use of non-aggressive agricultural practices. In the group of beneficiaries, the income is 21.9% higher than of that in the group of non-beneficiaries. In addition, families that adopt water reuse have 26.8% higher levels of sustainability than those that do not adopt this strategy of living with drought.

scholarly journals Models of the production process of agricultural plants for the analysis of the elements of some farming systems

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (25) ◽  
pp. 8-27
Author(s):  
V.L. Badenko ◽  
◽  
A.G. Topazh ◽  
S.A. Medvedev ◽  
E.T. Zakharova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Plants ◽  
The Impact

Currently, there are major changes in the concept of designing farming systems. They are associated with bridging the gap between socio-economic demands for increasing agricultural production and the scientific justification for sustainable agricultural land use. The article presents the results of solving this problem based on the use of an integrated system for modeling the production process of agricultural plants developed by the authors. This system was applied to analyze various agricultural technologies, in particular, alternative strategies for planning crop rotations in cropping systems. For this, the following tools existing in the environment of the developed system were used: 1) long-term analysis of a possible change in the fertility of agricultural fields when using different agricultural technologies; 2) substantiation of the selected crop rotation scheme, which includes various agricultural technologies and resource-saving measures; 3) model-based approach to assess the comparative effectiveness of alternative land use strategies. The first part of the article presents the results obtained using tools for assessment alternative agricultural technologies for harvesting associated with the abandonment or removal of plant residues from the agricultural field, as well as the impact of these agricultural technologies on the parameters of soil fertility in the long term. The results of the simulation show that the abandonment of crop residues has a positive effect on the dynamics of humus in the soil and on the nitrogen content in the meter soil layer. In the second part of the article, the results of the analysis of the comparative effectiveness of various crop rotation schemes and such agricultural activities as the application of organic fertilizers, the use of leguminous and winter catch crops are presented. The analysis made it possible to rank these measures in terms of the effectiveness of the impact on agricultural production; the use of organic fertilizers (manure) and including legumes in the crop rotation were the most effective ones. The presented results demonstrate the potential demand for the proposed methods and the developed integrated system for modeling the production process of agricultural plants to substantiate the elements of farming systems and analyze their impact on sustainable development.

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