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Journal articles on the topic "Intensive arable agriculture"

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Nedikova, E. V., E. V. Nedikova, and E. V. Krasnyanskaya. "Improvement of forest reclamation of arable land." Zemleustrojstvo, kadastr i monitoring zemel' (Land management, cadastre and land monitoring), no. 10 (September 5, 2022): 637–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/sel-04-2210-02.

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One of the main elements of the organizational and territorial basis for preventing soil erosion and conducting adaptive agriculture is the forest reclamation activities used on arable land. The system of forest strips lays a reliable foundation for improving farming regimes, preserving and reproducing soil fertility. The modern paradigm of agricultural nature management requires improvement and development of new approaches in designing forest strips in areas of intensive erosion processes.
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Nedikova, E. V., D. I. Chechin, and E. V. Krasnyanskaya. "Improvement of forest reclamation of arable land." Zemleustrojstvo, kadastr i monitoring zemel' (Land management, cadastre and land monitoring), no. 11 (October 5, 2022): 700–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/sel-04-2211-02.

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In this article the authors consider improvement of forest reclamation of arable land. One of the main elements of the formation of the organizational and territorial basis for preventing soil erosion and conducting adaptive agriculture is the forest-reclamation arrangement of arable land. The system of forest strips lays a reliable foundation for improving farming regimes, preserving and reproducing soil fertility. The modern paradigm of agricultural nature management requires improvement and development of new approaches in the field of designing forest strips in areas of intensive erosion processes.
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Rajović, G., and J. Bulatović. "Geographical view on agricultural land and structural changes plant production Montenegro." Scientific Electronic Archives 5 (March 26, 2014): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.36560/50201476.

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This paper analyzes agricultural land and structural changes in plant production Montenegro. The Montenegro represents a significant potential for agricultural development, but plant production insufficiently developed in relation to natural resources and the demands of intensive agricultural production. Average possession by agricultural holdings in 1960 amounts is 5.34 ha with only 2.05 ha arable area per agricultural holdings. Yet more unfavorable is the situation with arable surfaces. Namely, agricultural holdings in the Montenegro in 1960 are on average dispose with maximum of 0.74 ha of arable land. Judging by the size of the cultivated area, production volume, as well as according other parameters, plant production in the Montenegro in 2007, mainly used for meeting need households. A smaller area for is market. The role of the Montenegrin village and agriculture must be first-rate, as are its potentials, the main power future development of Montenegro. This requires radically new relationship between society and science to agriculture and the countryside. Instead of the existing approach in which they observed the preventive as producers of cheap food has to be developed a new concept, a comprehensive agricultural and rural development, which will be based on demographic, natural, economic and socio-cultural potential of Montenegro.
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Fukalová, Petra, and Tomáš Mašíček. "Impacts of Intensive Agriculture on Current Rural Landscape – A Case Study for South Moravian Landscape, Czech Republic." Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis 66, no. 5 (2018): 1099–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/actaun201866051099.

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The landscape in several countries of Central and Eastern Europe went through the most dramatic change in the socialist period. Agricultural land was considered only as a productive area. The size of arable land plots increased and stabilizing elements in the landscape were removed. This land consolidation of agriculture has led to the development of soil erosion. This paper presents a case study focused on comparison of landscape structure of model territory in two periods. The first period shows landscape before collectivization of agriculture, and the second one presents current landscape. The research dealt especially with evaluation of ecological stability and water erosion risk of the landscape. The identification of land use trends helps to characterize landscape of the model territory during monitored period. The following trends: decreasing area of arable land, increasing area of built‑up areas and other areas and increase area of vineyards showed different character of current landscape. The evaluation of ecological stability confirmed the loss of stable landscape elements. Based on the calculated values of ecological stability coefficient, the evaluated landscape has degraded from the category of “disturbed landscape capable of self‑regulation” to “devastated landscape”. The results also show the vulnerability of current large plots of arable land and vineyards to water erosion.
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Gerzabek, Martin H., Armin Bajraktarevic, Katharina Keiblinger, Axel Mentler, Maria Rechberger, Johannes Tintner, Karin Wriessnig, et al. "Agriculture changes soil properties on the Galápagos Islands – two case studies." Soil Research 57, no. 3 (2019): 201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr18331.

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The Galápagos Islands have faced a huge rise in the number of inhabitants and tourists over recent decades. As a consequence, natural forest vegetation has been converted to arable land to meet the increasing demand for agricultural produce. However, studies on soils and soil use change in the Galápagos Islands are scarce. In this study, we assessed the impacts of agricultural land-use on the islands of Santa Cruz and San Cristóbal. The site on Santa Cruz was called El Cascajo (EC, Leptosol, 5 years after conversion to intensive agriculture) and that on the oldest island of the Galápagos archipelago, San Cristóbal, Cerro Verde (CV, Ferralsol, 15 years after conversion). At both sites, we compared arable soils to soils under forests within the adjacent Galápagos National Park, which had formed on the same parent materials. Several soil properties showed a significant impact of the arable use. Soil organic carbon (Corg) stocks were relatively high at both sites (between 94 ± 28 and 142 ± 10 Mg ha–1). At CV, the stocks were 25% lower in arable plots compared with natural forest, but the observed decrease at EC was non-significant. Many other parameters like total nitrogen and several Mehlich-III extractable nutrients were closely correlated with the changes in Corg. Microbial biomass carbon (Cmic) and dissolved organic carbon were significantly lower in arable plots compared with forest at both sites. At EC, Cmic/Corg dropped by a factor of 1.9. Changes in pH and the use of agrochemicals, evidenced by pesticide residues detected in the soil, might be a possible explanation. Ammonium-N decreased and nitrate-N increased tremendously in the arable plots on both islands. Our research shows that present agricultural practices have potential for improvements towards a more sustainable agricultural use of soil resources on the Galápagos Islands.
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Khramtsov, I. F., and V. S. Boyko. "Nutrient regime of irrigated meadow-chernozem soils under long-term intensive use." Siberian Herald of Agricultural Science 51, no. 2 (June 7, 2021): 5–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.26898/0370-8799-2021-2-1.

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The patterns of phosphorus and potassium status of soils were studied given the improvement of agricultural technologies of irrigated agriculture. Long-term studies were carried out in an experimental grain-grass crop rotation on irrigated meadow-chernozem soil. The experimental plot is located in the southern forest-steppe of Omsk region. Intensive use of irrigated arable land with a rational combination of moisture and mineral nutrition regimes contributes to obtaining maximum yields of forage and grain crops. The creation of various conditions for mineral nutrition due to an increased and high supply of mobile phosphorus and with the application of different options of agricultural technologies made it possible to simulate possible agro-ecological conditions that form contrasting indices of crop productivity. A comparative assessment of the effectiveness of various agricultural approaches to growing crops under irrigation conditions indicates that soil cultivation techniques and forecrops did not significantly affect the content of available phosphorus in the soil. The equilibrium content of mobile phosphorus given a long-term negative balance changed insignificantly. The systematic application of phosphorus-containing fertilizers significantly increased the phosphate status of the soil. However, an adequate assessment of the phosphate status of arable soils is possible using several diagnostic indices (methods). Long-term intensive use of irrigated arable land has reduced the reserves of easily exchangeable potassium from 4 to 1–2 mg/100 g of soil in the arable layer. The content of exchangeable potassium has also decreased by almost 2 times, but the soil remains in a high and very high class of its availability. However, a number of indicators show its increasing depletion in the most mobile fractions of soil potassium. The reserves of non-exchangeable potassium are more stable, which have decreased by about 19% over 40 years, and the soil has passed into the category with an unstable supply.
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Śmietanka, Maria. "The Influence of Permanent Grasslands on Nitrate Nitrogen Loads in Modelling Approach." Journal of Water and Land Development 21, no. 1 (July 29, 2014): 63–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jwld-2014-0015.

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Abstract The water pollution in areas with intensive agriculture is growing rapidly. Computer model is a tool which can help in finding solutions for water pollution reduction and help in creation of catchment management plans. In this research the SWAT model (Soil and Water Assessment Tool) was used to test the influence of introduction of permanent grasslands into the catchment on nitrate nitrogen load in surface water. Small catchment of upper Zgłowi?czka River in central Poland with intensive agriculture was chosen as a test site. Model was fed with data about land use, soils, weather, elevation and management practices and calibrated and validated using flow data and nitrate nitrogen loads data. Then 2 scenarios with land use change were tested. A part of arable land was changed into permanent grasslands. The results show that permanent grasslands are effective in reducing nitrate nitrogen load. The load was reduced by 19% when permanent grasslands constituted 10% of arable land and by 38% with permanent grasslands taking up 20% of arable land.
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Fanfarillo, Emanuele, Marta Latini, and Giovanna Abbate. "Patterns of Co-occurrence of Rare and Threatened Species in Winter Arable Plant Communities of Italy." Diversity 12, no. 5 (May 15, 2020): 195. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/d12050195.

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Detecting patterns of species co-occurrence is among the main tasks of plant community ecology. Arable plant communities are important elements of agroecosystems, because they support plant and animal biodiversity and provide ecosystem services. These plant communities are shaped by both agricultural and environmental drivers. The pressure of intensive agriculture worldwide has caused the decline of many characteristic arable species and communities. Italy is the European country where arable plant biodiversity is the best preserved. In this study, we assessed the patterns of co-occurrence of rare and threatened arable plants in 106 plots of winter arable vegetation located from Piedmont to Calabria, in the mainland part of the country. For this purpose, we based our investigation on the analysis of a recently acquired dataset and on the European list of rare and threatened arable plants. We highlight how different species of conservation interest tend to occur in the same community. On the other hand, generalist and more competitive taxa show similar patterns of co-occurrence. We suggest that single species of conservation value could be suitable indicators of a well-preserved community. On the other hand, to be effective, conservation strategies should target the whole community, rather than single species.
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Столбова, Ольга, Olga Stolbova, Валерий Рябов, and Valerii Riabov. "AGRICULTURE OF THE KEMEROVO REGION." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Biological, Engineering and Earth Sciences 2017, no. 4 (December 25, 2017): 48–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2542-2448-2017-4-48-51.

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<p>The article presents the characteristics of modern agriculture, which is the basic link of the agroindustrial complex of the Kemerovoregion. It examines the factors that determine its specialization and the main industry of rural economy of Kuzbass. Agriculture plays an important role in ensuring food security in the region. The leading industry is beef farming, beef and dairy cattle, arable farming and grain growing. The Kemerovoregion achieves self-suffi in many agricultural products, some products are exported outside of the region. Prospects of development of agricultural production in Kuzbass are associated with the development of private fodder industry based on the cultivation of forage crops and legumes for intensive and industrial pig, poultry, and beef and dairy cattle breeding and production of succulent feeds for dairy and beef cattle. The development of agriculture will lead to the creation of new processing industries, the formation of a developed agro-industrial complex in the region, which will increase the level of socio-economic development of the region.<strong></strong></p>
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Ionescu, Danny, Mina Bizic, and Hans-Peter Grossart. "Bestimmung mikrobieller Gemeinschaften von Teichen in Stadt und Land." BIOspektrum 28, no. 7 (November 2022): 702–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12268-022-1863-x.

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AbstractLand use intensification through intensive agriculture or urbanization were shown to affect biodiversity of different taxonomic or functional groups. We used deep amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA to investigate these effects on pond biodiversity in an area intensely used for agriculture, as well as in urban ponds. We revealed a biodiversity homogenization across ponds in arable fields, grasslands, and forests in the rural Uckermark, yet with significant differences to urban ponds in Berlin.
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Wietzke, Alexander. "Arable plant diversity in conventionally managed farmland of Northwest Germany - Current state and a participative approach to increase farmland biodiversity." Doctoral thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/21.11130/00-1735-0000-0005-14A8-7.

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Books on the topic "Intensive arable agriculture"

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Bouët, Antoine, Sunday Pierre Odjo, and Chahir Zaki, eds. 2022 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM). AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54067/9781737916437.

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Agricultural trade and global food security have been dramatically affected by a series of events. While the global economy is recovering in 2022 from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has sparked new and challenging problems. In a context where agricultural prices were recovering from a generalized surge throughout the pandemic, the war reversed these trends and opened an new episode of rising food prices, general inflationary pressures, and increased volatility. The combination of these shocks affects agricultural trade and food security throughout Africa, especially in countries highly dependent on food imports. The role of trade in creating resilience in this volatile environment is crucial and has been much discussed. From this perspective, the 2022 Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor (AATM) contributes to our understanding of African agricultural trade and its relationship with food and nutrition security in several important ways. First, it provides a thorough analysis of regional and continental trade in agriculture and selected value chains using accurate statistics developed for this report. This year, it adds an analysis of the nutritional content of African trade and looks closely at the trade in processed products. Second, it examines the potentially transformative impact of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) on the region’s economies. Third, at the regional level, it analyzes the evolution of intra- as well as extra-regional trade flows, and trade policy of one of Africa’s Regional Economic Communities (RECs), namely the Economic Community of Central Africa States (ECCAS). As in prior editions, this fifth AATM provides improved trade statistics and uses consistent indicators to monitor trends in Africa’s participation in global trade as well as the status of intra-African trade. The report highlights three main findings. First, the insertion of African countries in global and regional value chains is low but has recently improved. Indeed, both forward participation in value chains (that is, provision of inputs to other countries’ processing sectors) and backward participation (incorporation of imported intermediates into African traded products) have increased, although forward links have grown faster than backward links. Second, intra-African trade increased significantly prior to the pandemic in most RECs, especially in processed products. Yet, this trend was halted by the COVID-19 shock, especially in ECCAS and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU). Third, the nutritional content of extra-African trade is concentrated in products with a high value and a low caloric content. In comparison, intra-African flows are more intensive in calories, fat, and protein. The report also examines a number of special topics. One chapter is devoted to modeling the impacts on trade, growth, and welfare of several potential approaches to AfCFTA implementation. The results confirm that there is a high opportunity cost associated with weak AfCFTA implementation, which is why it is crucial to take a more ambitious approach that fully liberalizes tariffs and reduces nontariff measures. The 2022 AATM also conducts a detailed analysis of trends and policy issues in value chains for stimulants (cocoa, coffee, and tea), demonstrating that trade in these sectors is still concentrated in unprocessed products. Finally, the report examines in-depth the patterns of trade integration within ECCAS. One important finding is that intraregional trade is still impeded by many tariffs, nontariff measures, and poor transport infrastructure. AKADEMIYA2063 and the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) are pleased to present this collaborative report, which provides an insightful review of Africa’s progress in trade development, within and beyond the continent, and new analysis on critical topics for trade in Africa’s agrifood sector.
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Book chapters on the topic "Intensive arable agriculture"

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Freyer, Bernhard, and Jim Bingen. "Resetting the African Smallholder Farming System: Potentials to Cope with Climate Change." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1441–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_267.

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AbstractAgricultural production systems, for example, conservation agriculture, climate smart agriculture, organic agriculture, sustainable landuse management, and others, summarized under the term “sustainable intensification,” have been introduced in African countries to increase productivity and to adapt/mitigate CC (CCAM). But the productivity of smallholder farming systems in Africa remains low. High erosion, contaminated water, threatened human health, reduced soil water, and natural resources functionality, that is, ecosystems services, and decreased biodiversity dominate. Low support in the farm environment is also responsible for this situation.It is hypothesized, based on the huge body of literature on CCAM, that the implementation of already existing arable and plant cultivation methods like crop diversity, alley crops, forage legume-based crop rotations, mulching, organic matter recycling, and reduced tillage intensity will increase CCAM performance and also farm productivity and income. Based on a brief analysis of CCAM relevant arable and plant cultivation methods and agricultural production systems potentials and challenges, this chapter offers guidance for further transforming climate robust African farming systems.
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Freyer, Bernhard, and Jim Bingen. "Resetting the African Smallholder Farming System: Potentials to Cope with Climate Change." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42091-8_267-1.

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AbstractAgricultural production systems, for example, conservation agriculture, climate smart agriculture, organic agriculture, sustainable landuse management, and others, summarized under the term “sustainable intensification,” have been introduced in African countries to increase productivity and to adapt/mitigate CC (CCAM). But the productivity of smallholder farming systems in Africa remains low. High erosion, contaminated water, threatened human health, reduced soil water, and natural resources functionality, that is, ecosystems services, and decreased biodiversity dominate. Low support in the farm environment is also responsible for this situation.It is hypothesized, based on the huge body of literature on CCAM, that the implementation of already existing arable and plant cultivation methods like crop diversity, alley crops, forage legume-based crop rotations, mulching, organic matter recycling, and reduced tillage intensity will increase CCAM performance and also farm productivity and income. Based on a brief analysis of CCAM relevant arable and plant cultivation methods and agricultural production systems potentials and challenges, this chapter offers guidance for further transforming climate robust African farming systems.
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Dimopoulos, Thymios, Christos Vasilakos, and Thanasis Kizos. "Integrating Spatial with Qualitative Data to Monitor Land Use Intensity: Evidence from Arable Land – Animal Husbandry Systems." In Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture—Theme II: Data, 161–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84148-5_7.

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Bauer, Martin. "Die Agrarwirtschaft. Eine Agrarrevolution in Raten." In Niederösterreich im 19. Jahrhundert, Band 1: Herrschaft und Wirtschaft. Eine Regionalgeschichte sozialer Macht, 611–44. NÖ Institut für Landeskunde, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52035/noil.2021.19jh01.26.

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Agriculture. Delayed Agricultural Revolution. This chapter traces the temporal-spatial course of agricultural development in the long 19th century. The labour-intensive and production-enhancing innovations of the “first agricultural revolution” began in the Alpine foothills as early as 1800, under feudal conditions. The expanding metropolis of Vienna and its immediate surroundings were also characterized by intensive formsof cultivation and a pronounced regional specialization at that time. On the other hand, large parts of the arable land in eastern Lower Austria were only intensified from the end of the 19th century onwards. One obstacle here was the competition of Hungarian and Moravian agricultural producers on the Viennese market. As Lower Austria enjoyed locational advantages in the case of perishable products, milk production played an important role in the agricultural intensification. Prerequisites were stronger demand from Vienna and the technological improvements in transportation. Due to this development spurt, agricultural production in Lower Austria began to grow significantly towards the end of the period under investigation.
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Vinten, Andrew, and Iain D.M. Gunn. "The Challenges of Managing Water for Wetland Ecology, Flood Mitigation and Agriculture in the Upper Lunan Water, an Intensive Arable Catchment in Scotland." In Environmental Management - Pollution, Habitat, Ecology, and Sustainability. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98727.

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The “Water for All” project has aimed to develop a multi-disciplinary science case for adaptive management through a Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) scheme in the Lunan Water, a lowland catchment in Scotland. Management needs for high and low flows, standing water levels and flow routing to/from high nature value mesotrophic wetlands were appraised. A key part has been the development of a real time hydrological-hydraulic model of the upper Lunan Water as an aid to management and scenario analysis especially with respect to existing and potential hydraulic structures. This provides better working knowledge and forecast-based simulations of high or low flow situations for catchment management planners, farmers, riparian owners and other local stakeholders. Engagement with local users and residents has included surveying Willingness To Pay (WTP) for hydraulic management as a function of governance mechanisms, development of a catchment management group, and interviews and workshops with riparian and other land-users. The work has highlighted the joys and sorrows of seeking to develop a PES approach and lessons to be learnt in project management, promotion of multiple benefits, catchment-scale water governance and the vices and virtues of “benign neglect”.
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Herz, Norman, and Ervan G. Garrison. "Soil Phosphate in Archaeological Surveys." In Geological Methods for Archaeology. Oxford University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195090246.003.0014.

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It has long been recognized that human activity chemically modifies the composition of the soil. This is especially true around ancient settlements that were occupied for relatively long periods of time. In areas that humans have inhabited, soil fertility is higher than in uninhabited areas because of an increase in plant nutrients derived from human and animal waste. Deep dark soils that contrast with neighboring lighter colored soils can define areas of intensive occupation with great precision. Phosphate (PO4-3), an important plant nutrient, is highly concentrated at ancient sites and makes for an increased soil fertility. Arab farmers in the Near East have been known to use soils excavated from archaeological sites to fertilize their agricultural land. The soil phosphate has been derived from animal and human excreta and bones and dead bodies. Phosphate will be especially concentrated where animals have been enclosed. Phosphate found in the soil can be bound chemically in a variety of ways. Since the soil is a dynamic system, its physical and chemical nature will constantly alter over time depending on local and temporal equilibria conditions. The first studies of soil phosphate were by agronomists as a tool for agriculture. The observation that human occupation increased the phosphate concentration was noted at least by 1911 in Egypt as a result of agronomic studies. O. Arrhenius, a Swedish agronomist, made the first attempt to apply phosphate studies to archaeology, in a series of papers beginning in 1929. He concluded that phosphate concentrations could be used to locate abandoned settlement sites, even where no visible evidence remained. Thus, the initial application of soil phosphate analysis to archaeology was as a geochemical exploration tool to locate ancient settlements. Human occupation should increase not only the phosphate found in the soil but also the nitrogen and carbon. These additions result from the decomposition of organic matter, principally human and animal remains and excreta. In desert or agricultural land, phosphorus in the soil ranges from 0.01% to 0.2% in the uppermost 10 cm and nitrogen ranges from 0.1% to 1%.
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Mor-Mussery, Amir. "Indigenous Farming Knowledge as a Tool for Addressing Global Warming: A Case Study of the Bedouin in the Negev Arid Highlands. Water catchments construction." In Indigenous Populations - Perspectives From Scholars and Practitioners in Contemporary Times [Working Title]. IntechOpen, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.108859.

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In the previous century, the Bedouins a nomadic people who migrated all over the Arab peninsula with their herds began to settle in villages, one of their settlement areas is the Negev highlands. While the younger generation searches for similar occupations as the surrounding urbanized Israelis, the adult ones in many cases sustain their traditional farming practices. In many cases these practices are not profitable and not sustainable, nevertheless, these practices are based on long-term experience in arid terms. Until recently the municipalities did not invest money and efforts to collect this knowledge and render it a sustainable and profitable one. A mission that became crucial not only due to the adults aging and the risk that this knowledge will be lost but due to the rapid transition of un-arid regions into arid or desertified ones worldwide that requires suitable farming practices. Hereby the scheme of acquiring this knowledge from the Bedouin farmers, designing sustainable and profitable solutions, managing the cultivated lands, and analyzing with them the outcome will be described together with samples from the Negev highlands. This chapter will focus on water catchment construction, which became a crucial requirement for sustainable agriculture due to the increased intensity of the rainfall event worldwide.
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"Table 1: Average composition of faeces and urine after separation by a filter net (0.78x0.78) Faeces Urine Dry matter (%) 32.50 1.92 Crude ash of dry matter 25.70 63.10 N-Kj (%) 1.24 0.34 NH -N 34 0.35 (%) 1.64 0.05 K20 85 0.62 CaO 45 0.04 MgO 48 0.02 Cu ppm 197 2.50 pH 9.1 From Table 1 it is evident that the percentages of the minerals in the faeces are high. In the urine the percentages are much lower except potassium. By manuring grassland potassium is the limiting factor, while o.n arable land the quantity of nitrogen needs to be taken into account. In applying solid manure to cropland the Cu-content needs to be taken into account. Depending on the Cu-status of the soil, 0-6 kg Cu/ha is advised. By fertilizing with 10 t/ha of solid manure about 3 kg Cu/ha is administered Because only a small amount of copper is taken up by plant growth and lost through drainage, the application of solid manure needs to be spread out over a few years if Cu is not to accumulate in the soil. 5.2 Odour_emissions It can be concluded that separation and removal of urine and faeces from piggery result in a reduced formation of odour components (5). This might result in a decrease of the precieved odour as compared with a housing system with underslat slurry storage. In order to obtain a reliable figure for the actual odour reduction, measurements have been carried out. Samples of ventilation air from a pighouse with underslat slurry storage as well as a pighouse with filter nets were taken on a number of different occasions. All samples were collected in bags made from FEP-Teflon. Odour experiments were performed the following day using a dilution apparatus (olfactometer) and a group of observers (panel). Since the establishment of the odour intensity is a time consuming affair, it has become practice in Dutch agricultural odour research to concentrate on the establishment of the odour treshold (6). The odour treshold is defined as that dilution of odorous air which." In Odour Prevention and Control of Organic Sludge and Livestock Farming, 232. CRC Press, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781482286311-92.

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Conference papers on the topic "Intensive arable agriculture"

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Némethová, Jana, and Melánia Feszterová,. "Agriculture Development of the Nitra Region in the Context of Slovakia after year 2004." In 27th edition of the Central European Conference with subtitle (Teaching) of regional geography. Brno: Masaryk University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/cz.muni.p210-9694-2020-12.

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The agriculture in Slovakia has undergone structural changes since its accession to the European Union (EU) in 2004, that have been linked to the adoption of the Common Agricultural Policy of the EU Member States. The article focuses on the Nitra region as a typical agricultural region of Slovakia and its development from the agricultural point of view from 2004. Compared to other Slovak regions the Nitra region has good soil climatic ratios, for the development of agriculture. The Nitra region has the largest share of agricultural land which is characterized by a high-level share of arable land from total agricultural land. The region has the highest values in gross agricultural production from the 2004-2016 reporting period. It has good results in plant and livestock production. The region has the highest employment in agriculture. Despite the decline in agricultural land, as well as a decline in total employment in agriculture, the region has the highest employment in agriculture in Slovakia. It is characterized by a well-developed business structure for intensive agricultural production.
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