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Agricultural & Resource Economics

Agricultural & Resource Economics

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      Biomass is a term in ecology for the  mass of living organisms in a given ecosystem.  Biomass can refer to the living stock of species in a given habitat, but can... More »

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      Broken food system and environmental crises spell hunger for millions. A broken food system and environmental crises are now reversing decades of progress against hunger... More »

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      Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunter-gatherers secured their food as they traveled in the nearby environment. When they... More »

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      Overgrazing is herbivory (animal comsumption of plants) that extracts an unsustainable yield of floral biomass from an ecosystem; however, the term is most often... More »

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      Humans began to cultivate food crops about 10,000 years ago. Prior to that time, hunter-gatherers secured their food as they traveled in the nearby environment. When they... More »

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      The Integrated Farm System Model With tighter profit margins and increasing environmental constraints, strategic planning of farm production systems is becoming both more... More »

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      The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is part of the United States federal government with primilary responsibility for matters related to agriculture, farming, forestry, and... More »

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Fair Trade for Agriculture in Ethiopia Last Updated on 2013-05-22 at 21:13 Brief Introduction of Fair Trade While no officially accepted definition exists, fair trade is widely recognized as a certification to represent a good that was produced... More »
Herbicide Last Updated on 2013-04-29 at 02:09 A herbicide is any of a number of chemical substances intended to kill vegetation. Since the vast majority of herbicides are non-selective in their lethal action, there may be... More »
Photosynthesis Last Updated on 2013-02-18 at 15:00 Introduction Photosynthesis is a process in plants, algae, and some prokaryotes, that coverts solar insolation into chemical energy stored in... More »
Biotechnology in Animal Agriculture: Status and... Last Updated on 2012-10-25 at 13:41 This article represents a summary of the subject as of 2008. Since the field of genetic modification of food products is rapidly changing in time, there may be other data... More »
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