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Sentinelles - Réanimation d’un moulin millénaire au bord du Fornant (Haute-Savoie)

Les sentinelles sont des jalons dans le paysage qui enregistrent le temps : une allée d’arbre centenaire, un chemin qui s’efface, les méandres fossiles d’une rivière, une peinture qui s’écaille. Ces individus hétéroclites servent d’allégorie pour illustrer ...

2023

De haut en bas. Approfondissement d’un territoire pastoral: la fabrication du fromage de Bex à Anzeindaz (VD)

Benoît Perrier

Dans le chablais vaudois, le long du bassin versant de l’Avançon, entre le massif Alpin des Diablerets et la plaine du Rhône, de nombreuses pratiques agricoles ont pu voir le jour, mais sont aujourd’hui mises à mal par les difficultés économiques du métier ...

2020

Genetically Different Isolates of the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungus Rhizophagus irregularis Induce Differential Responses to Stress in Cassava

Constant Signarbieux

Water scarcity negatively impacts global crop yields and climate change is expected to greatly increase the severity of future droughts. The use of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can potentially mitigate the effects of water stress in plants. Cassava i ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Signatures of selection and environmental adaptation across the goat genome post-domestication

Stéphane Joost, Estelle Rochat

Background: Since goat was domesticated 10,000 years ago, many factors have contributed to the differentiation of goat breeds and these are classified mainly into two types: (i) adaptation to different breeding systems and/or purposes and (ii) adaptation t ...

BMC2018

Time-Continuous Phosphorus Flows in the Indian Agri-Food Sector: Long-Term Drivers and Management Options

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Phosphorus (P) is a major agricultural nutrient and, in its mineable form, a potentially scarce resource. Countries with limited physical access to P should hence develop an effective national P governance. This requires analyses of trends and variations i ...

2018

Un centre d'agriculture urbaine à Lausanne. Au croisement entre un couloir écologique et un plateau industriel

Marine Bersier

L'alimentation vit une révolution comportementale importante. La population devient plus sensible à ce qu'elle mange et exprime des attentes en terme de traçabilité des ingrédients en privilégiant les produits frais distribués à travers des circuits courts ...

2017

Quantifying the effects of land use and climate on Holocene vegetation in Europe

Jed Oliver Kaplan

Early agriculture can be detected in palaeovegetation records, but quantification of the relative importance of climate and land use in influencing regional vegetation composition since the onset of agriculture is a topic that is rarely addressed. We prese ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2017

Multi locus genotypic data reveal high genetic diversity and low genetic structure of Iranian sheep

Stéphane Joost

Iranian livestock diversity is still largely unexplored, in spite of the interest in the populations historically reared in this country located near the Fertile Crescent, a major livestock domestication centre. In this investigation, the genetic diversity ...

Wiley-Blackwell2016

Sustainable policy—key considerations for air quality and climate change

Julia Schmale

Air quality and climate change are inexorably linked from theiremission sources to their impacts on climate, human health, andecosystems, including agriculture. However, in globalenvironmental change and sustainability policies the linkbetween air quality ...

2016

Water use by Sclerocarya birrea Agroforestry Trees in Sudanian Savanna: Application of Wireless Sensor Networks

Natalie Claire Ceperley

Small scale rain fed agriculture is the primary livelihood for a large part of the population of Burkina Faso. Regional climate change means that this population is becoming increasingly vulnerable. Additionally, as natural savanna is converted for agricul ...

2011

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