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December 2022

Climate change, flooding, disease and lack of proper governance are creating unforeseen challenges for
aquaculture development in Bangladesh. Identifying the various characteristics of the aquaculture production systems and designing approaches based on those characteristics can be…

December 2022

Context and backgroundThe Polytechnic University of Valencia UPV is collaborating with Valencia City Council in Spain, as part of the European GrowGreen project, to carry out a baseline study of the neighborhood, with the aim of improving the well-being of citizens and enhancing the green…

Reports & Research
April 2022

 
This list of bibliographic references is an accompanying piece to the <a href="https://landportal.org/data-story/2022/05/a-story-about-maize">data story</a> written by Daniel…

Reports & Research
April 2022

 
<em>This is the PDF version of an <a href="https://landportal.org/data-story/2022/05/a-story-about-maize">online data story</a> published by Land Portal on 12 May 2022…

Peer-reviewed publication
December 2020

Globally, agricultural soils are being evaluated for their role in climate change regulation as a potential sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) through sequestration of organic carbon as soil organic matter. Scientists and policy analysts increasingly seek to develop programs and policies…

Peer-reviewed publication
December 2020

Abandoned farmland is particularly problematic in developed countries where agriculture has a comparative disadvantage in terms of effective use of land resources invested over time. While many studies have estimated the causes of these problems, few have discussed in detail the impact of data…

December 2020

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) has a long history of collaboration with Japanese institutions to develop improved crop varieties and adopt agricultural technologies with pioneering approaches for farmers’ benefit. Since 1972, Japan has enjoyed a long history of successful…

December 2020

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a major food security crop for millions of resource-poor farmers, particularly in West Africa. Soil mineral deficiency is the main challenge in yam production, especially with the dwindling of fallow lands for the indigenous nutrient supply. Cultivars tolerant to…

Peer-reviewed publication
October 2020

Development has fragmented urban nature, and target sites for conservation strategies need to be those that have long maintained their original land cover in a clustered area. Additionally, continuously grasping changes from rural to urban as well as changes over decades after urbanization is…

Peer-reviewed publication
September 2020

A worldwide introduction of renewable energy has been required to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Concomitantly, this has caused conflict between renewable energy development and local communities over landscape changes. This study aims to clarify the factors of conflict and find a way of…

Peer-reviewed publication
September 2020

Peri-urban agriculture (PUA) has been widely regarded as a sub-field of multifunctional agriculture for improving the sustainability of urban environments. However, urban sprawl has both negative and positive effects on peri-urban farming, and the research on this issue in Japan is insufficient…

Peer-reviewed publication
June 2020

This paper was aimed at estimating the forest aboveground biomass (AGB) in the Central Kalimantan tropical peatland forest, Indonesia, using polarimetric parameters extracted from RadarSAT-2 images. Six consecutive acquisitions of RadarSAT-2 full polarimetric data were acquired and polarimetric…