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Agricultural impacts on the rural environment.

Published online: 01 Sep 1990

Authors: Green, B. H.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Post-war agriculture in Britain and the EEC, facilitated by new technology and state support, has been very successful in increasing food supplies to ...

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Assessing foodborne pathogen survival in bird faeces to co-manage farms for bird conservation, production, and food safety.

Published online: 21 Mar 2025

Authors: Spence, A. R. & McGarvey, J. A. & Lee Sangin & Smith, O. M. & Olimpi, E. M. & Yang WenTao & Zhang MeiRun & Karp, D. S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Because birds can carry foodborne pathogens, widespread concern exists that birds impose food-safety risks to farms. Growers are thus often encouraged...

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Urban cultivation in allotments maintains soil qualities adversely affected by conventional agriculture.

Published online: 06 Aug 2014

Authors: Edmondson, J. L. & Davies, Z. G. & Gaston, K. J. & Leake, J. R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Modern agriculture, in seeking to maximize yields to meet growing global food demand, has caused loss of soil organic carbon (SOC) and compaction, imp...

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Towards the implementation of the SSF guidelines in South Asia. Proceedings of the South Asia FAO-BOBLME Regional Consultation on the implementation of the voluntary guidelines for securing sustainable small-scale fisheries in the context of food security and poverty eradication, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 23-26 November, 2015.

Published online: 23 May 2018

Authors: Franz, N. & Poulain, F. & Westlund, L.

Content type: Bulletin; Conference proceedings

Following the endorsement of the Voluntary Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries in the Context of Food Security and Poverty Eradi...

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Aquatic pollution increases use of terrestrial prey subsidies by stream fish.

Published online: 03 Feb 2016

Authors: Kraus, J. M. & Pomeranz, J. F. & Todd, A. S. & Walters, D. M. & Schmidt, T. S. & Wanty, R. B.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Stream food webs are connected with their riparian zones through cross-ecosystem movements of energy and nutrients. The use and impact of terrestrial ...

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The spatial aggregation of organic farming in England and its underlying environmental correlates.

Published online: 15 Apr 2009

Authors: Gabriel, D. & Carver, S. J. & Durham, H. & Kunin, W. E. & Palmer, R. C. & Sait, S. M. & Stagl, S. & Benton, T. G.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Given the current debate on the global food crisis, conservation in Europe is expected to shift from maximizing biodiversity at the expense of yield t...

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Animal-pollinated crops and cultivars - a quantitative assessment of pollinator dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches.

Published online: 09 Sep 2024

Authors: Siopa, C. & Carvalheiro, L. G. & Castro, H. & Loureiro, J. & Castro, S.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

Crop pollinator dependence (PD) values are key when assessing a pollinator's contribution to agriculture, guiding management plans and policies for su...

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Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study.

Published online: 19 Dec 2012

Authors: Carvalheiro, L. G. & Seymour, C. L. & Nicolson, S. W. & Veldtman, R.

Content type: Journal article

Journal title: Journal of Applied Ecology

As cropland increases, fields become progressively isolated from pollinators, leading to declines in pollinator-dependent crop productivity. With the ...

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Policy space in agriculture under the WTO rules on domestic support.

Published online: 02 Sep 2015

Authors: Brink, L.

Content type: Bulletin

A concept of policy space is formulated under the domestic support rules of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture. This policy space is dyadic, comprising ...

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Review of climate service needs and opportunities in Rwanda.

Published online: 07 Sep 2016

Authors: Nyasimi, M. & Radeny, M. & Hansen, J. W.

Content type: Bulletin

The Rwanda Climate Services for Agriculture project, funded by USAID, aims to benefit nearly one million farmers by 2019, and transform Rwanda's rural...

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