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This article explores the escalating impact of natural disasters, particularly droughts, in the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a specific focus on Eswatini. Over the last century, approximately 63 million people in SADC countries have ...
Basel2024Automation in steep terrain agriculture: an optimal controller to prevent tipping and slipping of tethered robots on slopes
Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes, Max Mirko Polzin
Autonomous robots have the potential to fundamentally transform conventional farming methods, e.g. by enabling economically viable farming of sloped arable land. However, navigation on slopes in harsh conditions is challenging for robots as they must be pr ...
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2023Climate change impacts on water sustainability of South African crop production
Agricultural production in arid and semi-arid regions is particularly vulnerable to climate change, which, combined with projected food requirements, makes the sustainable management of water resources critical to ensure national and global food security. ...
2022The Mekong Delta Research Project as a Tool for Building a Pedagogical Approach
As an opportunity to discuss “Teaching in Research,” at EDAR’s Fourth Rencontre, I will be sharing my past experience in teaching without a Ph.D. and why I have decided to invest in obtaining a Ph.D. I shall discuss the differences between teaching with an ...
2019Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms
Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...
EPFL2019Refining Biomass Residues for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts: Technology, Advances, Life Cycle Assessment and Economics
Edgard Gnansounou, Jegannathan Kenthorai Raman
Refining Biomass Residues for Sustainable Energy and Bioproducts: Technology, Advances, Life Cycle Assessment and Economics is a one-stop reference on the biorefinery of various kinds of residue and waste feedstock for the sustainable production of biofuel ...
Elsevier Science Publishing Co Inc2019The WORLD6 Integrated System Dynamics Model: Examples of Results from Simulations
The WORLD6 model is a fully integrated dynamic world systems model. It includes a biophysical global economic model, based on first principles of physics and thermodynamics, forcing it to be fully consistent with the underlying mass- and energy balances. T ...
Paul Scherrer Institute, World Resources Forum2019CHANGE AGENTS ENGAGED IN SUSTAINABLE TRANSFORMATION IN THE FINNISH FOOD SYSTEM
Food security is a crucial topic in sustainability science. Agricultural land occupies approximately 37–38% of the Earth’s land surface, and about one third of the EU’s environmental impact is caused by the current food system. Further, feeding the world’s ...
A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017Land-use change affects phosphorus fractions in highly weathered tropical soils
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 Bv2017Tropical soils degraded by slash-and-burn cultivation can be recultivated when amended with ashes and compost
Alexandre Buttler, Vincent Eric Jules Jassey, Bjorn Jozef Maria Robroek, Robert Thomas Edmund Mills, Muhammad Saleem Arif, Justine Marie Gay des Combes, Leia Soraya Véronique Falquet, Clara Sanz Carrillo
In many tropical regions, slash-and-burn agriculture is considered as a driver of deforestation; the forest is converted into agricultural land by cutting and burning the trees. However, the fields are abandoned after few years because of yield decrease an ...
Wiley2017