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Species identity, rather than species mixtures, drives cover crop effects on nutrient partitioning in unfertilized agricultural soil

Alexandre Buttler, Pierre Rémi Mariotte, Mathieu Raymond Santonja, Lucas Georges Jean-Paul Freund

Aims Previous cover crop studies mainly focused on the links between plant uptake and soil fertility, and there is a clear knowledge gap regarding the role of microbes in these processes. Our aim was then to better understand the effects of plant mixtures ...

SPRINGER2020

GeoFarmer: A monitoring and feedback system for agricultural development projects

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Farmers can manage their crops and farms better if they can communicate their experiences, both positive and negative, with each other and with experts. Digital agriculture using internet communication technology (ICT) may facilitate the sharing of experie ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Transpiration on the rebound in lowland Sumatra

Thomas Guillaume, Mitsunori Nomura

Following large-scale conversion of rainforest, rubber and oil palm plantations dominate lowland Sumatra (Indonesia) and other parts of South East Asia today, with potentially far-reaching ecohydrological consequences. We assessed how such land-use change ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

Risk perception and decision-making: do farmers consider risks from climate change?

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Small-scale farmers are highly threatened by climate change. Experts often base their interventions to support farmers to adapt to climate change on their own perception of farmers' livelihood risks. However, if differences in risk perception between farme ...

SPRINGER2018

The spatial impact of socio-technical transitions – The case of phosphorus recycling as a pilot of the circular economy

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer

Socio-technical innovations for the recovery of phosphorus (P) from sewage sludge (ashes) and the recycling of the secondary material in the agri-food system have been gaining prominent roles in current debates on circular economy. While research has been ...

2018

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

The creativity trap : semantic and pragmatic study of creative capitalism

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

The urban order has fashioned a new grammar. In literal terms, the theories of the creative class, creative economy and creative city function as a unit that is both descriptive and prescriptive; they have the advantage of taking into account the utility o ...

Revues Org2017

Le piège de la créativité : examen sémantique et pragmatique du capitalisme créatif

Mischa-Sébastien Piraud

2017

Assessment of operator and worker exposure in gardening areas in Burkina Faso using the new exposure model proposed by EFSA guidelines

Luiz Felippe De Alencastro, Edouard René Gilbert Lehmann, Jean-Jacques Stéphane Nfon Dibie

The objective was to estimate resulting occupational exposure and assess solutions in order to provide stakeholders with suitable recommendations. The model succeed in providing assessment of alternatives and proved to be a cheap and easy way to propose a ...

2016

New Urban Social Movements, Situated Practice and the Affordances of a Porous Urban Space.

Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

With this presentation I intend to put forward a new definition of urban porosity as a notion capable of describing the necessary rich quality coupling urban space and social and civic engagement. This is done through the analysis of the social space pract ...

2016

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