Sustainable agriculture Books

Book SynopsisProviding expert tips on tending the land, caring for animals, and necessary equipment, Ann Larkin Hansen also covers the intricate process of acquiring organic certification and other business considerations important to a profitable operation. Discover the rewarding satisfaction of running a successful and sustainable organic farm.

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Book SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Agriculture, SSA 2021, held as a virtual event in June 2021. The 12 papers presented were thoroughly reviewed and selected from the 25 qualified submissions. The papers provide discussion on new trends in communication and networking, Internet of Things, data processing for smart agriculture, renewable-energy based devices, low-cost solutions for wide-area exploitations and developing countries, smart agriculture and urban farming, smart irrigation, application to small-size andlarge-size exploitations, application of ancestral farming to smart agriculture, waste management for agriculture 2.0, and census of regional ancestral farming. Table of ContentsFuzzy Logic Based Pasture Assessment Using Weed and Bare Patch Detection.- Ensuring smart agriculture system communication condentiality using a new Network Steganography method.- Deploying Deep Neural Networks on Edge Devices for Grape Segmentation.- Abnormal behavior detection in Farming stream data.- eWeightSmart - a smart approach to beef production management.- Gaia-AgStream: An Explainable AI Platform for Mining Complex Data Streams in Agriculture.- Comparison of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Methods for Grape Cluster Segmentation.- Smart & Sustainable Agriculture - Machine Learning behind this (R)evolution.- A Methodology for Early Detection of Plant Diseases using Real Time Object Detection Algorithm.- Mathematical Modelling of Irrigation System Using WSN.- Development of Soil Nitrogen Estimation System in Oil Palm Land with Sentinel-1 Image Analysis Approach.- New Monitoring framework intelligent irrigation system.

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Book SynopsisThis book describes initiatives and concrete examples on sustainable food production worldwide. In the current world scenario, where nations all over the world are struggling to accomplish the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and to ensure sustainable patterns for all, this book provides a contribution towards a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary understanding of the cross-cutting issues related to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security. This interdisciplinary book supports the efforts to engage a commitment from all fields of science, to work together to provide knowledge that could help to address SDG2 (No hunger) and lead to the promotion of quality of life, by means of a more sustainable food production, and improved food security. This book is expected to fill the gap of publications in this field. It gives a special emphasis to a state-of-the-art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from universities, stakeholders, organizations and civil society across the world, regarding cross-cutting issues in sustainable food production. It includes examples of policies and practices case studies, examples of projects, institutional policies, innovative methods and tools and research outputs, which highlight the interdependence between sustainable agriculture and food security issues. It is expected that the “Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security” will make the many benefits of sustainable food production clearer and, inter alia, lead to an increase in the emphasis provided to this central theme. Table of ContentsSupporting Sustainable Agriculture.- The concept of sustainable agriculture.- Agriculture-food nexus. The paradox of sustainable development in Mexico.- Prosocial Partnerships - A Scalable Pathway to Sustainable Agricultural Development.- Towards sustainable agriculture in Serbia: Empirical insights from a spatial planning perspective.- Climate adaptive agriculture: A smallholders case study of the Southwestern highlands of Ethiopia.- Differentiated intra-household food utilization in Raymond Mhlaba Local Municipality, South Africa.

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