QUESTIONS: How does small linear grassland elements (paddy levees and road verges) contribute to plant diversity patterns in sites with modern or traditional management? Which factors determine small‐scale plant species richness of small linear grassland elements in a Japanese agricultural landscape? LOCATION: Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
The purpose of this paper is to provide some implications for a next-generation model of paddy-farming in Japan, through a validation of the large-scale mechanized farming concept and practice in Ogata Village, Akita Prefecture, born as 'a future agricultural model for Japan.' First, even though contracts of land sale and farming systems were connected between the settlers and the country, both
The agricultural census of 2015 indicated that the total area of abandoned farming land reached to 424,090 ha which accounts for nearly 10% of total farming land in Japan. However, little is known about economic, social, and geographical characteristics that lead farmers to leave their farming lands idle.
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture (CGRFA)
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA-16/17/6
Session: Sess.16
Meeting Name: European Forestry Commission
Meeting symbol/code: ECE/TIM/2015/2 - FO/EFC/15/2
Session: Sess. 38 - Sess.73
Meeting Name: Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Technical Working Group on Aquatic Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture
Meeting symbol/code: CGRFA/AqGR-1/16/Inf.2
Session: Sess. 1
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