Towards sustainable urban food systems: Analyzing contextual and intrapsychic drivers of growing food in small-scale urban agriculture

Towards sustainable urban food systems: Analyzing contextual and intrapsychic drivers of growing food in small-scale urban agriculture

Small-scale urban agriculture is related to optimistic well being and environmental outcomes. Previous research examined components that drive folks to develop meals in urban areas primarily drawing on qualitative knowledge. This analysis investigates quantitatively what determines shopper preferences for growing meals in neighborhood gardens, informing efforts to upscale urban agriculture. We performed selection experiments in … Read more

Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO 2 nexus across metacoupled systems

Impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO 2 nexus across metacoupled systems

Irrigated agriculture has vital implications for attaining the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there’s a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its impacts on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus. Here we studied impacts of irrigated agriculture on food-energy-water-CO2 nexus across meals sending systems (the North China Plain (NCP)), meals receiving systems (the remaining of China) and spillover systems … Read more

Role of Beneficial Microorganisms and Salicylic Acid in Improving Rainfed Agriculture and Future Food Safety

Role of Beneficial Microorganisms and Salicylic Acid in Improving Rainfed Agriculture and Future Food Safety

Moisture stress in rainfed areas has important antagonistic impacts on plant progress and yield. Plant progress selling rhizobacteria (PGPR) performs an vital position in the revegetation and rehabilitation of rainfed areas by modulating plant progress and metabolism and bettering the fertility standing of the rhizosphere soils. The present research explored the optimistic position of PGPR … Read more

Assessment of the Immediate and Potential Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Outbreak on Socioeconomics, Agriculture, Security of Food and Dietary Intake in Nigeria

Assessment of the Immediate and Potential Long-Term Effects of COVID-19 Outbreak on Socioeconomics, Agriculture, Security of Food and Dietary Intake in Nigeria

Nigeria agriculture, meals safety and dietary consumption haven’t been exempted from the disruptions in numerous sectors round the world because of the outbreak of COVID-19. The nation first skilled the outbreak on February 27, 2020, and the expertise since then has proven unfavourable results not solely on the socioeconomic situations but in addition on agriculture, … Read more

Risk factors and prevalence of antibodies for Toxoplasma gondii in diaphragmatic fluid in wolverines (Gulo gulo) from the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Risk factors and prevalence of antibodies for Toxoplasma gondii in diaphragmatic fluid in wolverines (Gulo gulo) from the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Toxoplasma gondii, a zoonotic meals borne parasite that may infect nearly all warm-blooded animals together with individuals, and ranks 4th amongst 24 most vital international mealsborne parasites listed by the World Health Organization/United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO/WHO, 2014). Exposure to T. gondii has been reported in wildlife and individuals in the Canadian North, regardless of low densities of feline definitive hosts. The ecology of this host-parasite system could … Read more