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Model of crop growth, water flow, and solute transport in layered soil

Agro-ecohydrological models are essential for managing scarce water resources and ensuring crop productivity. Here, a one-dimensional agro-ecohydrological model, LAWSTAC, capable of simulating water and solute transport in layered soil coupled with crop gr ...

2019

Transition of the Swiss Phosphorus System towards a Circular Economy — Part 1: Current State and Historical Developments

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Jonas Ramon Mehr

Current phosphorus (P) use in European countries is highly dependent on mineral P imports and not sustainably managed. In order to identify and implement measures for sustainable P management, a comprehensive understanding of national P flows and stocks an ...

2018

Life Cycle Assessment of Vetiver-Based Biorefinery With Production of Bioethanol and Furfural

Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman

Lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks are considered as one of the major alternative for fossil and food based transport fuel and chemicals for the reasons such as fuel/food security, depleting fossil reserves, climate change, mitigate pollution in agricultur ...

Elsevier2017

Multi-objective optimization of rainfed and irrigated agricultural areas considering production and environmental criteria: a case study of wheat production in Spain

Gonzalo Guillen Gosalbez, Pavel Vaskan

Meeting the growing food demand with minimum impact on the environment is a major challenge to face for ensuring a more sustainable food production. To tackle this problem, in this article we present a novel systematic method for agriculture planning that ...

Elsevier2017

THE GOOD GROWTH PLAN FARM NETWORK – MONITORING RESOURCE EFFICIENCY OF CROP PRODUCTION SYSTEMS

The FAO estimates that food supplies need to increase by 70% to feed a growing population of 9 billion people by 2050. The changes in agricultural practices required to grow more tend to exert higher demand on resources and put eco-system services at risk ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Ecosystem services and federalism: a case study of Switzerland

Jérôme Chenal, Rémi Jaligot

A fundamental element of a federated state is the division of power between a central government and the component states. Switzerland is a federation consisting of twenty-six sovereign states named canton. Each canton has its own government and parliament ...

2017

Improving slash-and-burn agriculture in Central Menabe, Madagascar

Justine Marie Gay des Combes

Slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as an important driver of deforestation in the tropics. In Madagascar, a biodiversity hotspot, this type of agriculture particularly threatens the tropical forest cover. On the south-western coast of the island, in ...

EPFL2017

INFRASTRUCTURE – A CRUCIAL KEY FOR RESOURCE EFFICIENCY, SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE

Due to its significant contribution to socioeconomic development, its huge environmental impacts and its key role in a functioning economy, adequate infrastructure development is vital for our sustainable future. The way infrastructure such as roads, sewag ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Land-use change affects phosphorus fractions in highly weathered tropical soils

Thomas Guillaume

Deforestation and land-use change in tropics have increased over the past decades, driven by the demand for agricultural products. Although phosphorus (P) is one of the main limiting nutrients for agricultural productivity in the tropics, the effect of lan ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Antibiotic use and abuse: A threat to mitochondria and chloroplasts with impact on research, health, and environment

Johan Auwerx, Richardus Houtkooper, Dongryeol Ryu, Xu Wang

Recently, several studies have demonstrated that tetracyclines, the antibiotics most intensively used in livestock and that are also widely applied in biomedical research, interrupt mitochondrial proteostasis and physiology in animals ranging from round wo ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

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