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Soft robotics for farm to fork: applications in agriculture & farming

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Kai Christian Junge

Agricultural tasks and environments range from harsh field conditions with semi-structured produce or animals, through to post-processing tasks in food-processing environments. From farm to fork, the development and application of soft robotics offers a pl ...

Bristol2024

Spatio-temporal controls of C–N–P dynamics across headwater catchments of a temperate agricultural region from public data analysis

Camille Roland Marie Minaudo

Characterizing and understanding spatial variability in water quality for a variety of chemical elements is an issue for present and future water resource management. However, most studies of spatial variability in water quality focus on a single element a ...

2021

Financial Ratios as Indicators of Economic Sustainability: A Quantitative Analysis for Swiss Dairy Farms

Ivo Philippe Baur

In agriculture, a rising number of sustainability assessments are available that also comprise financial ratios. In a literature review of farm management textbooks, taking account of the differences between European and North American practices and consid ...

MDPI2018

Evaporation from cultivated and semi-wild Sudanian Savanna in west Africa

Marc Parlange, Natalie Claire Ceperley, Theophile Mande, Nicolaas Cornelis van de Giesen

Rain-fed farming is the primary livelihood of semi-arid west Africa. Changes in land cover have the potential to affect precipitation, the critical resource for production. Turbulent flux measurements from two eddy-covariance towers and additional observat ...

European Geosciences Union2017

Combining UAV-imagery and machine learning for wildlife conservation

Semi-arid savannas are endangered by changes in the fragile equilibrium between rainfalls, fires and grazing pressure exerted by wildlife or cattle. To avoid bush encroachment and the decline of perennial grass, land managers must pay attention to keep the ...

2016

Chemical profiling of manure: toward source inference in environmental fraud cases?

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Nicolas Estoppey, Adrien Schopfer, William Lacour

With 6% of Europe's freshwater resources, Switzerland is often considered the ‘water tower of Europe’. Over 8 millions residents rely on more than 57’600 farms to provide meat, milk, or eggs, with 1.58 million cattle, 1.58 million swine or 9.39 million pou ...

2015

Farm-Scale Tradeoffs Between Legume Use as Forage versus Green Manure: The Case of Canavalia brasiliensis

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

To support a sustainable increase in agricultural productivity, the multipurpose legume Canavalia brasiliensis was integrated as forage and green manure into the smallholder crop-livestock system of the Nicaraguan hillsides. Through on-farm trials, sur- ve ...

2014

Riding the whole-genome data tsunami: a landscape genomic study of local adaptation in Moroccan sheep and goats

Stéphane Joost, Sylvie Stucki, Kevin Leempoel

In Morocco, like in other developing countries, small ruminants play an important role in the livelihood of a large proportion of farmers and landless shepherds. Conserving traditional breeds is essential in these countries since they are able to prosper i ...

2014

Reuse of domestic wastewater treated in macrophyte ponds to irrigate tomato and eggplant in semi-arid West-Africa: benefits and risks

André Mermoud

The scarcity of freshwater resources is a critical problem in semi-arid zones and marginal quality water is increasingly being used in agriculture. This paper aimed at evaluating the physico-chemical and biological risks on irrigated soils and fruits of ma ...

Elsevier2011

Suitability of pesticide risk indicators for Less Developed Countries: A comparison

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Pesticide risk indicators provide simple support in the assessment of environmental and health risks from pesticide use, and can therefore inform policies to foster a sustainable interaction of agriculture with the environment. For their relative simplicit ...

Elsevier2011

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