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Journal articles on the topic "Farming transition"

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Foran, B., and B. Allan. "Assessing Options for Farming Systems Transitions in New Zealand's Mountainlands." Rangeland Journal 17, no. 2 (1995): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9950166.

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The transition of an agricultural ecosystem from a less to a more sustainable or desirable state is dependent as much on the routes and tactics used to effect the transition, as it is on the management ideas and the biological components used. Against the background of the failure of farmers to take up an integrated "all grass wintering system" in the mountain lands of the South Island of New Zealand, we compared a wide range of transitional opportunities and evaluated them in economic terms over a 20 year period. Farm structure at the start of the transition was a rather obvious but key criterion for success of the transition. Transition from a farm structure where supplementary feeding cost NZ$90,000 per year into the new system, allowed a position better than the "do nothing" option to be achieved in as little as 8 to 9 years. Transitions from smaller farm structures of $60,000 and $30,000 took from 12 to more than 20 years to achieve a cash position better than the "do nothing" option. Herein lies the quandary for all farming systems which might aim to make transitions and to "do it better". We explore the sensitivity of these general results to the effects of product price and interest rates, wool growth and lambing rates, whether transition should be gradual or fast, and the incumbent debt levels that can be serviced in addition to the new development. In conclusion we note some essential components of any study of transition of pastoral systems. It is important that dynamic tools are used in any transition study since the route taken in the transition can be more important than the end point. The economic advantage offered by new pastoral technology is important, particularly the time it takes to become fully implemented. Sensitivity analyses should be undertaken for key production and price assumptions. It is helpful to present these analyses as three-dimensional diagrams to allow biological and economic risk to be assessed against each other. While increased animal numbers bring better economic returns, both industry attitudes and the management of ecological risk may require the maintenance of present animal numbers. Increased profitability will then rely on individual animal performance, and higher quality livestock products.
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Katsvairo, Tawainga W., David L. Wright, James J. Marois, and Jimmy R. Rich. "Transition from conventional farming to organic farming using bahiagrass." Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture 87, no. 15 (2007): 2751–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jsfa.3002.

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Heryadi, D. Yadi, Betty Rofatin, and Zulfikar Noormansyah. "Semi-organic Rice Farming as a Transition Period to Organic Rice Farming." Paspalum: Jurnal Ilmiah Pertanian 9, no. 1 (March 31, 2021): 53. http://dx.doi.org/10.35138/paspalum.v9i1.277.

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Organic rice farming aims to achieve sustainable agriculture. It considers social, economic and environmental aspects. However, in practice, farmers experience various technical and economic constraints upon converting non-organic agriculture practice to organic rice farming. The alternative method is to implement semi-organic farming as a transitional period. The purpose of this study is to review technical / production and economic aspects of non-organic, semi-organic, and organic farming. It is conducted to determine whether semi-organic farming could be utilized as a transition period to organic rice farming. The study used a survey method on 75 farmers working in non-organic, semi organic, and organic farm in Priangan Timur, West Java Province, Indonesia. Article’s result exhibited that, in terms of technical cultivation / production, the majority of semi-organic farmers had carried out the stages of organic cultivation. It generated higher productivity compared to non-organic farming. However, productivity remained below organic farming. In terms of economical aspect, income per hectare and R / C value are higher than non-organic farming. However, it is below organic farming. Semi-organic farming could be used as a transition to organic farming.
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Aarset, Bernt. "Norwegian salmon-farming industry in transition." Ocean & Coastal Management 38, no. 3 (March 1998): 187–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0964-5691(97)00037-9.

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Kuchimanchi, Bhavana Rao, Imke J. M. De Boer, Raimon Ripoll-Bosch, and Simon J. Oosting. "Understanding transitions in farming systems and their effects on livestock rearing and smallholder livelihoods in Telangana, India." Ambio 50, no. 10 (March 8, 2021): 1809–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13280-021-01523-z.

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AbstractIncreasing food demands are causing rapid transitions in farming systems, often involving intensified land and resource use. While transitioning has benefits regarding poverty alleviation and food outputs, it also causes environmental and social issues over time. This study aims to understand the transitions in farming systems in a region in Telangana, from 1997 to 2015, and their effect on livestock rearing and smallholder livelihoods. We also examine the impact of the transitions on lower caste groups and women in particular. We collected data using a combination of methods, i.e., a household survey, focus group discussions, and secondary data sources, to build a comprehensive picture of the transitions in the region. We found that subsistence mixed farming systems transitioned to market-orientated specialized systems over a short time span. As the transition process gained momentum, households either intensified their production or got marginalized. Technological interventions, development programs with integrated approaches, and market demand for certain agricultural produce triggered increased regional production but also led to the scarcity of water, land, and labor. The transitions marginalized some of the households, changed the role of livestock in farming, and have been inclusive of both lower caste groups and women in terms of increased ownership of large ruminants and access to technologies. However, for women specifically, further increase in workload in the context of farming is also found.
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Hoes, Anne-Charlotte, and Lusine Aramyan. "Blind Spot for Pioneering Farmers? Reflections on Dutch Dairy Sustainability Transition." Sustainability 14, no. 17 (September 2, 2022): 10959. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su141710959.

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This study explores the questions of how to govern the transition towards sustainable farming in a responsible and inclusive manner by exploring the Dutch dairy case. Sustainability transition is about fundamental social–technical changes to address the grand challenges that society faces today. It includes breaking down and phasing out unsustainable practice as well as scaling up sustainable alternatives. Transition literature argues that governments should implement a mix of transition tasks to give direction, support the new and destabilase the unsustainable. In addition, market-based instruments (MBIs) and policy interventions rewarding sustainable farming stimulate transition. This study illustrates that strong and prolonged pressure of not meeting international environmental agreements triggered the implementation of stronger policy interventions that destabilize the unsustainable. However, less policy attention seems to be given to supporting the “new”, such as pioneering alternative farmers who develop sustainable alternatives to mainstream farming. To achieve more responsible and inclusive sustainability transitions, it is important to implement tailor-made policies that support pioneering alternative farmers who are already taking steps in developing sustainable farms which, in addition to food, provide ecological and other benefits to community.
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Jia, Peter. "The transition to farming in northeast China." Before Farming 2008, no. 4 (January 2008): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/bfarm.2008.4.2.

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Coquil, Xavier, Pascal Béguin, and Benoît Dedieu. "Transition to self-sufficient mixed crop–dairy farming systems." Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems 29, no. 3 (December 16, 2013): 195–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1742170513000458.

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AbstractWhile plains favorable to agriculture are still dominated by specialized and intensive agriculture, self-sufficient mixed crop-dairy farming systems increasingly attract policy makers' and scientists' attention. Owing to their limited use of purchased inputs, they can contribute to reducing the environmental impact of agriculture. Furthermore, self-sufficient farming tends to be linked with a search for autonomy in decision-making, i.e., farmers developing their own technical reference framework. Such farming systems can thus also contribute to alternative development pathways of rural territories. In this paper, we analyze how ten intensive mixed crop–dairy farms have progressively evolved toward more self-sufficient and autonomous systems. Through formalizing farmers' transitionin action, we identified 34 tools that the farmers implemented making them reflect on their farming system, shift socio-professional networks, reorganize work routines, and steer the evolution of their production practices. For example, they created temporary pastures in crop rotation, introduced rotational pastures, observed their herds to adjust their feed and keep the animals in good health, and they limited expenditures to manage their cash flow. Which tools were used and when they were used depends on what is meaningful to them at various stages of the transition. Our analysis of transitionsin actionhas three original features: it is centered on the transition as perceived by the actors who experience and manage it; it proposes a long-term conceptualization of the dynamics of farming systems, based on the farmer's initiative and creativity; and it highlights tools implemented by farmers during the transition to self-sufficiency and autonomy.
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Skrzypczyński, Robert, Sylwia Dołzbłasz, Krzysztof Janc, and Andrzej Raczyk. "Beyond Supporting Access to Land in Socio-Technical Transitions. How Polish Grassroots Initiatives Help Farmers and New Entrants in Transitioning to Sustainable Models of Agriculture." Land 10, no. 2 (February 21, 2021): 214. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10020214.

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The importance of agri-food systems for global sustainability calls for researching and advancing socio-technical transitions towards environmentally friendly models of farming. These transitions hinge on many prerequisites, one of which is providing access to land for farmers and new entrants who experiment with sustainable farming models. However, for socio-technical transitions in farming to be viable, access to land should be complemented with securing access to “intangible” resources such as skills, knowledge or networks. It seems that increasingly often these resources are being provided by various grassroots initiatives. The goal of this paper is to identify how the strategies employed by grassroots initiatives support farmers and new entrants in transitioning to sustainable farming models. In order to answer that question, we perform case studies of three Polish initiatives—Agro-Perma-Lab, PermaKultura.Edu.PL and the Ecological Folk High School in Grzybów—active in promoting agroecology, permaculture and organic farming. The results show a diversity of strategies employed by these initiatives that reflect the frameworks in which they operate. Considering these strategies from the perspective of transition studies suggests that they can be replicated in other contexts and potentially contribute to advancing socio-technical transitions of agri-food systems.
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Lévy, Jean-Claude Serge. "The Driving Forces of Human Society Main Transitions." EPJ Web of Conferences 244 (2020): 01006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202024401006.

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The four main steps of human evolution: hunting-gathering, farming-livestock herding, industrial era and conception era are considered here as distinct phases parted by dynamic phase transitions. Comparing these social phases enables us to deduce the driving forces occurring during these transitions. At each transition the laymen lost some previous advantages, these losses had to be balanced by some counterweights, the transition driving forces. For instance, the first transition is shown to result from an equilibrium between efficiency and power, social partition and religion. Other transitions are similarly analysed with evidence for driving forces leading to deep social reconstructions.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Farming transition"

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Jia, Weiming. "Transition from foraging to farming in northeast China." Connect to full text, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/653.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2005.
Title from title screen (viewed 20 May 2008). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Dept. of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.
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Jia, Wei Ming. "Transition from foraging to farming in northeast China." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/653.

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This thesis is using a framework to analyse the process of transition from foraging to farming in northeast China. Tool complexes analysis is the particular method used to retreive prehistoric economies. Based on the result of these case studies about prehistoric economies in northeast China, this thesis attemp to apply the availability model of transition to farming in northern Europe, proposed by Zvelebil and Rowley-Convy, in the new area northeast China. The result of this research has implicated that the transition to farming in prehistory is the result of the interaction between human societies and environment. among many factors in this interaction, the motivation that prehistoric societies choosing agriculture economy to meet social, political and economic needs would have to be the major one leading to the transition occurred.
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Jia, Wei Ming. "Transition from foraging to farming in northeast China." University of Sydney. Philosophical & history enquries, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/653.

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This thesis is using a framework to analyse the process of transition from foraging to farming in northeast China. Tool complexes analysis is the particular method used to retreive prehistoric economies. Based on the result of these case studies about prehistoric economies in northeast China, this thesis attemp to apply the availability model of transition to farming in northern Europe, proposed by Zvelebil and Rowley-Convy, in the new area northeast China. The result of this research has implicated that the transition to farming in prehistory is the result of the interaction between human societies and environment. among many factors in this interaction, the motivation that prehistoric societies choosing agriculture economy to meet social, political and economic needs would have to be the major one leading to the transition occurred.
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Andric, Maja. "Transition to farming and human impact on the Slovenian landscape." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365514.

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Gardiner, Paula Judy. "The Mesolithic-Neolithic transition in south west England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/a1034199-f5d8-43e8-8651-f81d79f4551e.

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Hor, Sanara. "The Transition of Farming Systems Causing Forest Degradation in Ratanakiri Province, Cambodia." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/193593.

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Quan, Truong Tan. "Transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam." Lincoln University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1557.

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The purpose of the study was to investigate how farmers in Quang Bing Province, Vietnam have been making the transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture. This process began in 1986 when the Vietnam economy changed from central planning to a market orientation. The research strategy was based on case study analysis of two communes in each of three agro-ecological zones, defined as coastal, plains and mountains. Within each commune there were six embedded household case studies, i.e 36 in total. Case studies were selected purposively to capture diversity of agro-ecological zones, market access and communications, wealth and income status, and ethnic communities. Households were interviewed twice; first in either late 2006 or early 2007, and again in late 2008. The study was approached using a constructivist paradigm and a lens of livelihood analysis, focusing on resources, institutions, interventions and the dynamics of change. Particular attention was given to the development of markets (inputs, outputs, land, labour and credit) and supply chain factors. Separate measures of commercialisation were constructed based on outputs and inputs, and at the level of both individual activities and the overall household. Investigations were informed by existing theory, but no hypotheses were tested. Instead, the research focused on emergent patterns and insights, and the enrichment and modification of existing theory. A review of literature indicated that the transition from subsistence farming to commercial agriculture in Vietnam was different from other countries on account of the specific combination of low technology agriculture, typical of much of developing Asia, combined with the transformation from a centrally planned economy to a market orientation as occurred in Central and Eastern European countries. At commune level, the key determinants of commercialisation were strong physical connections to markets, with good road access being paramount. Once all weather road access for motorised vehicles was available, then rapid commercialisation occurred. Supply chains typically developed faster for outputs than inputs. New technologies that increased the yield of basic food crops, and facilitated by Government and NGO programs, led to the release of land resources no longer required for meeting food security needs. Households retained their production of food crops that provided food security, and added additional cash earning activities. At the level of individual households, the commercialisation process was led by entrepreneurial families who perceived opportunities relating to profitable activities, and combined this with hard work. Often these opportunities were linked to what they had observed or learnt elsewhere. Once first movers took up a new technology, others observed and followed. There were many enabling factors, such as access to land, access to capital, and access to credit. However, none of these could be considered a determinant, in that the absence of any one factor did not by itself preclude successful commercialisation. Absence of an active male worker was a major constraint to commercialisation, as was lack of necessary crop and livestock skills. There was evidence that income disparities were increasing between the wealthy and the poor. Output commerciality across all households averaged 88 % in 2008 and was higher for wealthy households (95 %) than poor households (83 %). All households still produced their own food crops, but these crops had low market values and hence had a low impact on the output commerciality index. Output commerciality measured in percentage terms obscured that wealthy families had net incomes almost 13 times greater than poor households. A major theoretical insight was that key commercialisation factors are multiple and context dependent. Accordingly, there is a need in any investigation for a holistic approach, based on a livelihood framework that incorporates the complexities associated with the development of markets, as well as giving consideration to the range of interventions and institutional policies that impact on livelihood development.
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Lu, Tracey Lie Dan. "The transition from foraging to farming and the origin of agriculture in China /." Oxford : J. & E. Hedges, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37191931c.

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Guenat, Dominique Vincent. "Study of the transformation of traditional farming in selected areas of Central Bhutan : the transition from subsistence to semi-subsistence, market oriented farming /." Zurich, 1991. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=9296.

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Pelly, Lynn. "Farming in transition? : an exploration of agricultural experience in the north east of England." Thesis, Durham University, 2013. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/7334/.

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Through the lens of complexity theory, this thesis seeks to establish an argument for agriculture to be viewed as a complex system which is based on a representative case study of mixed lowland farming in County Durham. The discussion encompasses an investigation of the notion of crisis within this system and the main factors producing this point of change/ phase shift, be they from within the system (endogenous) or from outside of the system (exogenous). This thesis contends that agricultural systems are complex, combining human and biological elements that link together diverse people, places and processes through multiple product flows and intermediaries. They are characterised by emergent properties and non-linear dynamics, due in part to highly articulated interactions at numerous levels. On occasions small occurrences can produce large effects, but large events can produce complete and massive change and phase shift. This is particularly evident in several recent crises in agriculture. Empirical data is gathered through extensive and in-depth interviewing of a sample, which is representative of this lowland mixed farming community and autoethnography. This was combined with an extensive review of government publications, official statistics, academic writing and media reports to frame the entirety of the issue. This thesis finds that there is much evidence of novel change, and therefore, phase shift within the complex socio-production system of mixed lowland farming. This change emanates from both internal factors (endogenous) such as BSE and foot-and-mouth disease and also from factors external to the system (exogenous) such as reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and investment in agricultural land by those from outside the industry. The lowland mixed family farm is at a time of change; especially vulnerable are those on tenant farms and the next generation wishing to follow their parents into farming.
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Books on the topic "Farming transition"

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MacRae, Roderick John. Organic in transition: A discussion paper. Toronto: Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, 2000.

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Jia, Weiming. Transition from foraging to farming in northeast China. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2007.

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Marek, Zvelebil, ed. Hunters in transition: Mesolithic societies of temperate Eurasia and their transition to farming. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Bethard, Greg. Managing transition cows for better health and production. [Corvallis, Or.]: Oregon State University Extension Service, 2000.

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Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems Promotion Trust (Kathmandu, Nepal). International Seminar. Irrigation in transition: Interacting with internal and external factors and setting the strategic actions. Kathmandu: Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems Promotion Trust, 2007.

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DiGiacomo, Gigi. Organic transition: A business planner for farmers, ranchers and food entrepreneurs. College Park, MD: Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE), 2015.

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Lu, Tracey Lie Dan. The transition from foraging to farming and the origin of agriculture in China. Oxford, England: John and Erica Hedges, 1999.

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Hasan, Mohammad R. Transition from low-value fish to compound feeds in marine cage farming in Asia. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2012.

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Fishing, foraging and farming in the Bolivian Amazon: On a local society in transition. Dordrecht: Springer, 2010.

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Rankin, Lisa Kathryn. Interpreting long-term trends in the transition to farming: Reconsidering the Nodwell Site, Ontario, Canada. Oxford: J. and E. Hedges, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Farming transition"

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Fox, Roger. "5. Extensive Farming in the Alentejo." In Portuguese Agriculture in Transition, 85–106. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501746154-009.

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Ammerman, Albert J. "The Transition to Early Farming in Europe." In Computational Social Sciences, 225–53. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83643-6_11.

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Lin, Justin Yifu. "Cooperative Farming and Efficiency: Theory and Empirical Evidence from China." In Agricultural Cooperatives in Transition, 207–26. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429041693-13.

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ten Caat, Nick, Nico Tillie, and Martin Tenpierik. "Pig Farming vs. Solar Farming: Exploring Novel Opportunities for the Energy Transition." In TransFEWmation: Towards Design-led Food-Energy-Water Systems for Future Urbanization, 253–80. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61977-0_12.

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Mohapatra, Lipsa, and Goutam Saha. "Cotton Farming in India: Alternative Perspectives and Paradigms." In Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems, 195–213. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00356-2_17.

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Prasan, Chandrakanta B., and Joshua N. Daniel. "Intensification of Bodi-Based Farming for Sustainable Livelihood Assurance." In Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems, 135–43. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00356-2_12.

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Bhushan, Surya, Piyush Kumar Singh, Sridhar Telidevara, and Santosh Kumar. "Understanding Livelihood Diversification: A Case Study of Mushroom Farming in Bihar." In Transition Strategies for Sustainable Community Systems, 153–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00356-2_14.

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Issar, Arie S., and Mattanyah Zohar. "The Great Transition — From Farming Villages to Urban Centers." In Climate Change — Environment and Civilization in the Middle East, 63–97. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-06264-7_4.

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Carolan, Michael. "Acting Like an Algorithm: Digital Farming Platforms and The Trajectories They (Need Not) Lock-in." In Social Innovation and Sustainability Transition, 107–19. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18560-1_8.

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Darnhofer, Ika. "Contributing to a Transition to Sustainability of Agri-Food Systems: Potentials and Pitfalls for Organic Farming." In Organic Farming, Prototype for Sustainable Agricultures, 439–52. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7927-3_24.

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Conference papers on the topic "Farming transition"

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Finley, Judson Byrd. "A MULTIDECADAL PERSPECTIVE ON THE FREMONT FORAGING-FARMING TRANSITION IN EASTERN UTAH, USA." In GSA Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, USA - 2019. Geological Society of America, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/abs/2019am-337251.

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Todic, Tamara, Lina Stankovic, Vladimir Stankovic, and Jiufeng Shi. "Quantification of Dairy Farm Energy Consumption to Support the Transition to Sustainable Farming." In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/smartcomp55677.2022.00082.

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Savietto, D., F. Douhard, H. Gilbert, R. Rupp, L. Fortun-Lamothe, and A. Ducos. "478. Opportunities for animal genetics to foster the ecological transition of livestock farming systems." In World Congress on Genetics Applied to Livestock Production. The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-940-4_478.

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PANAIT, Ioana, and Cătălin Marian CUCU. "ORGANIC FARMING - VECTOR OF INFLUENCE IN THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ROMANIAN AGRICULTURAL SECTOR." In Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy. Editura ASE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24818/cafee/2019/8/17.

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The purpose of this study is to outline an overview of the market for organic food products, as well as the progress made by Romania in the transition to organic farming as its size and evolution and we draw attention to the current situation of organic farming in the EU, but especially that of Romania. The importance of this paper is highlighted by the role of organic farming in global agriculture sector which is the defining element of improvement and modernization of Romanian agriculture, the conversion to organic farming and the adaptation to a new model, widely encountered, that of sustainable development by passing to a model of value added generating development. The working methodology includes the analyses of statistical data regarding surfaces and production of the agrofood organic products and of the operators who are certified in organic farming in Romania, between 2010 and until 2018, the carrying out of a quantitative statistical method for an observation of the evolution in time for organic productions and for the types of operators certified organic. The main outcome reflects the position of organic farming in Romania and in relation to the EU average.
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Broomfield, C. Y., and A. Maher. "26. What role for England’s grassland farming regions in the transition to a sustainable food system?" In EurSafe 2022. The Netherlands: Wageningen Academic Publishers, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-939-8_26.

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Tapu, Tatiana, and Elena Scripnic. "A different approach to primary documentation of products and live weight gain in poultry for eggs." In 4th Economic International Conference "Competitiveness and Sustainable Development". Technical University of Moldova, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.52326/csd2022.16.

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The basic problem of poultry breeding management consists in the synergistic management of the maintained herds, the related biological transformations and the results generated by the quantitative and/or qualitative changes of the maintained pultry herds through the documentation and accounting of agricultural products with different economic utility (basic and secondary), the increase live weight, hatching of chicks (hens, turkeys, chicks, ducklings, etc.), as well as related production costs. The suggestions were presented based on the generalization of the problems and uncertainties encountered by practicing accountants in the process of documenting and accounting the economic facts related to the transition to egg inputs and the increase in live weight in poultry farming. The discrepancies were identified during the consulting activities carried out at the request of several domestic poultry entities.
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Reports on the topic "Farming transition"

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Houzer, Ella, and Ian Scoones. Are Livestock Always Bad for the Planet? Rethinking the Protein Transition and Climate Change Debate. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/steps.2021.003.

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Urgent climate challenges have triggered calls for radical, widespread changes in what we eat, pushing for the drastic reduction if not elimination of animal-source foods from our diets. But high-profile debates, based on patchy evidence, are failing to differentiate between varied landscapes, environments and production methods. Relatively low-impact, extensive livestock production, such as pastoralism, is being lumped in with industrial systems in the conversation about the future of food. This report warns that the dominant picture of livestock’s impacts on climate change has been distorted by faulty assumptions that focus on intensive, industrial farming in rich countries. Millions of people worldwide who depend on extensive livestock production, with relatively lower climate impacts, are being ignored by debates on the future of food. The report identifies ten flaws in the way that livestock’s climate impacts have been assessed, and suggests how pastoralists could be better included in future debates about food and the climate.
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Adelaja, Adesoji, Justin George, Thomas Jayne, Milu Muyanga, Titus Awokuse, Adebayo Aromolaran, and Lenis Saweda O. Liverpool-Tasie. How Conflicts Affect Land Expansion by Smallholder Farmers: Evidence from Nigeria. Institute of Development Studies (IDS), December 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2020.015.

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The expansion of smallholder farms into larger farm sizes is a key strategy for growing agriculture in sub-Saharan Africa. This strategy could simultaneously expand farm incomes while addressing poverty since the majority of farms in sub-Saharan Africa are smallholder farms. There is limited existing research on the possible role of conflicts in stymying the ability of smallholder farmers to transition into larger-scale farming and on the impacts of conflicts in areas that are not directly within active conflict zones. In this paper, we investigate the impacts of conflict on the ability of smallholder farmers to transition to larger scales in two regions that are not in a traditional conflict zone, by developing a household utility maximisation model to explain choices made by farm households in response to conflict.
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Marshall, Amber, Krystle Turner, Carol Richards, Marcus Foth, Michael Dezuanni, and Tim Neale. A case study of human factors of digital AgTech adoption: Condamine Plains, Darling Downs. Queensland University of Technology, December 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.227177.

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As global agricultural production methods and supply chains have become more digitised, farmers around the world are adopting digital AgTech such as drones, Internet of Things (IoT), remote sensors, blockchain, and satellite imagery to inform their on-farm decision-making. While early adopters and technology advocates globally are spruiking and realising the benefits of digital AgTech, many Australian farmers are reluctant or unable to participate fully in the digital economy. This is an important issue, as the Australian Government has said that digital farming is essential to meeting its target of agriculture being a $100billion industry by 2030. Most studies of AgTech adoption focus on individual-level barriers, yielding well-documented issues such as access to digital connectivity, availability of AgTech suppliers, non-use of ICTs, and cost-benefit for farmers. In contrast, our project took an ‘ecosystems’ approach to study cotton farmers in the Darling Downs region in Queensland, Australia who are installing water sensors, satellite imagery, and IoT plant probes to generate data to be aggregated on a dashboard to inform decision-making. We asked our farmers to map their local ecosystem, and then set up interviewing different stakeholders (such technology providers, agronomists, and suppliers) to understand how community-level orientations to digital agriculture enabled and constrained on-farm adoption. We identified human factors of digital AgTech adoption at the macro, regional and farm levels, with a pronounced ‘data divide’ between farm and community level stakeholders within the ecosystem. This ‘data divide’ is characterised by a capability gap between the provision of the devices and software that generate data by technology companies, and the ability of farmers to manage, implement, use, and maintain them effectively and independently. In the Condamine Plains project, farmers were willing and determined to learn new, advanced digital and data literacy skills. Other farmers in different circumstances may not see value in such an undertaking or have the necessary support to take full advantage of the technologies once they are implemented. Moreover, there did not seem to be a willingness or capacity in the rest of the ecosystem to fill this gap. The work raises questions about the type and level of new, digital expertise farmers need to attain in the transition to digital farming, and what interventions are necessary to address the significant barriers to adoption and effective use that remain in rural communities. By holistically considering how macro- and micro-level factors may be combined with community-level influences, this study provides a more complete and holistic account of the contextualised factors that drive or undermine digital AgTech adoption on farms in rural communities. This report provides insights and evidence to inform strategies for rural ecosystems to transition farms to meet the requirements and opportunities of Agriculture 4.0 in Australia and abroad.
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Reeve, Sophie, Susanna Cartmell, Alice Mutimer, and Olivia Frost. e-Dialogues Spark Debate on the Dynamics of Agricultural Commercialisation. APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, April 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/apra.2022.029.

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In early 2022, the Agricultural Policy Research in Africa (APRA) Programme of the Future Agricultures Consortium (FAC), in partnership with the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Foresight4Food, held an e-Dialogue series: Towards an Equitable and Sustainable Transformation of Food Systems. This followed an earlier, highly successful series organised with the same partners in the second half of 2020 on What Future for Small-Scale Farming? The latest series included three online Zoom sessions led by APRA over January-March 2022 on topics including COVID-19 and its effects on local food systems and rural livelihoods, and transition pathways and strategies for supporting more equitable and resilient food systems in Africa. These virtual events were designed to replace an international conference that was part of APRA’s original end-of-programme plan, before the COVID-19 crisis prevented large, physical gatherings. The three e-Dialogues brought together APRA researchers and expert commentators from across sub-Saharan Africa, as well as a wider audience. The objective of these dialogues was to examine evidence and lessons from APRA’s six-year collaborative research programme (2016-22) analysing the dynamics of agricultural commercialisation processes, agrarian change and rural transformation in the region. This report looks at their impact, what worked well, and what could have been improved.
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Hulata, Gideon, Thomas D. Kocher, and Micha Ron. Elucidating the molecular pathway of sex determination in cultured Tilapias and use of genetic markers for creating monosex populations. United States Department of Agriculture, January 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.32747/2007.7695855.bard.

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The objectives of this project were to: 1) Identify genetic markers linked to sex-determining genes in various experimental and commercial stocks of O. niloticusand O. aureus, as well as red tilapias; 2) Develop additional markers tightly linked to these sex determiners, and develop practical, non-destructive genetic tests for identifying genotypic sex in young tilapia; A third aim, to map sex modifier loci, was removed during budget negotiations at the start of the project. Background to the topic. A major obstacle to profitable farming of tilapia is the tendency of females to reproduce at a small size during the production cycle, diverting feed and other resources to a large population of small, unmarketable fish. Several approaches for producing all-male fingerlings have been tried, including interspecific hybridization, hormonal masculinization, and the use of YY-supermale broodstock. Each method has disadvantages that could be overcome with a better understanding of the genetic basis of sex determination in tilapia. The lack of sex-linked markers has been a major impediment in research and development of efficient monosex populations for tilapia culture. Major conclusions, solutions, achievements. We identified DNA markers linked to sex determining genes in six closely related species of tilapiine fishes. The mode of sex determination differed among species. In Oreochromis karongaeand Tilapia mariaethe sex-determining locus is on linkage group (LG) 3 and the female is heterogametic (WZ-ZZ system). In O. niloticusand T. zilliithe sex-determining locus is on LG1 and the male is heterogametic (XX-XY system). We have nearly identified the series of BAC clones that completely span the region. A more complex pattern was observed in O. aureus and O. mossambicus, in which markers on both LG1 and LG3 were associated with sex. We found evidence for sex-linked lethal effects on LG1, as well as interactions between loci in the two linkage groups. Comparison of genetic and physical maps demonstrated a broad region of recombination suppression harboring the sex-determining locus on LG3. We also mapped 29 genes that are considered putative regulators of sex determination. Amhand Dmrta2 mapped to separate QTL for sex determination on LG23. The other 27 genes mapped to various linkage groups, but none of them mapped to QTL for sex determination, so they were excluded as candidates for sex determination in these tilapia species. Implications, both scientific and agricultural. Phylogenetic analysis suggests that at least two transitions in the mode of sex determination have occurred in the evolution of tilapia species. This variation makes tilapias an excellent model system for studying the evolution of sex chromosomes in vertebrates. The genetic markers we have identified on LG1 in O. niloticusaccurately diagnose the phenotypic sex and are being used to develop monosex populations of tilapia, and eliminate the tedious steps of progeny testing to verify the genetic sex of broodstock animals.
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Saville, Alan, and Caroline Wickham-Jones, eds. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Scotland : Scottish Archaeological Research Framework Panel Report. Society for Antiquaries of Scotland, June 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.9750/scarf.06.2012.163.

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Why research Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Scotland? Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology sheds light on the first colonisation and subsequent early inhabitation of Scotland. It is a growing and exciting field where increasing Scottish evidence has been given wider significance in the context of European prehistory. It extends over a long period, which saw great changes, including substantial environmental transformations, and the impact of, and societal response to, climate change. The period as a whole provides the foundation for the human occupation of Scotland and is crucial for understanding prehistoric society, both for Scotland and across North-West Europe. Within the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic periods there are considerable opportunities for pioneering research. Individual projects can still have a substantial impact and there remain opportunities for pioneering discoveries including cemeteries, domestic and other structures, stratified sites, and for exploring the huge evidential potential of water-logged and underwater sites. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology also stimulates and draws upon exciting multi-disciplinary collaborations. Panel Task and Remit The panel remit was to review critically the current state of knowledge and consider promising areas of future research into the earliest prehistory of Scotland. This was undertaken with a view to improved understanding of all aspects of the colonization and inhabitation of the country by peoples practising a wholly hunter-fisher-gatherer way of life prior to the advent of farming. In so doing, it was recognised as particularly important that both environmental data (including vegetation, fauna, sea level, and landscape work) and cultural change during this period be evaluated. The resultant report, outlines the different areas of research in which archaeologists interested in early prehistory work, and highlights the research topics to which they aspire. The report is structured by theme: history of investigation; reconstruction of the environment; the nature of the archaeological record; methodologies for recreating the past; and finally, the lifestyles of past people – the latter representing both a statement of current knowledge and the ultimate aim for archaeologists; the goal of all the former sections. The document is reinforced by material on-line which provides further detail and resources. The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic panel report of ScARF is intended as a resource to be utilised, built upon, and kept updated, hopefully by those it has helped inspire and inform as well as those who follow in their footsteps. Future Research The main recommendations of the panel report can be summarized under four key headings:  Visibility: Due to the considerable length of time over which sites were formed, and the predominant mobility of the population, early prehistoric remains are to be found right across the landscape, although they often survive as ephemeral traces and in low densities. Therefore, all archaeological work should take into account the expectation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic ScARF Panel Report iv encountering early prehistoric remains. This applies equally to both commercial and research archaeology, and to amateur activity which often makes the initial discovery. This should not be seen as an obstacle, but as a benefit, and not finding such remains should be cause for question. There is no doubt that important evidence of these periods remains unrecognised in private, public, and commercial collections and there is a strong need for backlog evaluation, proper curation and analysis. The inadequate representation of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic information in existing national and local databases must be addressed.  Collaboration: Multi-disciplinary, collaborative, and cross- sector approaches must be encouraged – site prospection, prediction, recognition, and contextualisation are key areas to this end. Reconstructing past environments and their chronological frameworks, and exploring submerged and buried landscapes offer existing examples of fruitful, cross-disciplinary work. Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology has an important place within Quaternary science and the potential for deeply buried remains means that geoarchaeology should have a prominent role.  Innovation: Research-led projects are currently making a substantial impact across all aspects of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic archaeology; a funding policy that acknowledges risk and promotes the innovation that these periods demand should be encouraged. The exploration of lesser known areas, work on different types of site, new approaches to artefacts, and the application of novel methodologies should all be promoted when engaging with the challenges of early prehistory.  Tackling the ‘big questions’: Archaeologists should engage with the big questions of earliest prehistory in Scotland, including the colonisation of new land, how lifestyles in past societies were organized, the effects of and the responses to environmental change, and the transitions to new modes of life. This should be done through a holistic view of the available data, encompassing all the complexities of interpretation and developing competing and testable models. Scottish data can be used to address many of the currently topical research topics in archaeology, and will provide a springboard to a better understanding of early prehistoric life in Scotland and beyond.
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Shifting cultivation landscapes in transition: Where are the forests? Safeguarding forest cover and ecosystem services while transitioning shifting cultivation to resilient farming systems. Kathmandu, Nepal: International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.53055/icimod.14.

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