Agricultural Intensification - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Agricultural intensification refers to the process of increasing productivity on existing farmland to spare land for reforestation or prevent further deforestation, by enhancing crop yields and efficiency while considering the trade-off between greenhouse gas …
Agricultural Intensification and Ecosystem Properties | Science
1997年7月25日 · Intensification of agriculture by use of high-yielding crop varieties, fertilization, irrigation, and pesticides has contributed substantially to the tremendous increases in food production over the past 50 years.
Sustainable intensification in agricultural systems
2014年10月28日 · Sustainable intensification (SI) is defined as a process or system where agricultural yields are increased without adverse environmental impact and without the conversion of additional non-agricultural land.
Agricultural Intensification - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
Agricultural intensification refers to the practice of increasing agricultural productivity through methods such as mechanical and chemical practices, which can lead to the loss of pollinators and pollination services due to the destruction of habitats and use of pesticides and fertilizers.
Agricultural Intensification - (AP Human Geography) - Fiveable
Agricultural intensification refers to the process of increasing agricultural productivity by making more efficient use of land, labor, and resources.
agricultural intensification, including effects on land use change, air and water, soil fertility, biodiversity, and disease transmission. Understanding the impacts of intensification on these environmental outcomes is important for ensuring that global food demand is met in environmentally sustainable ways .
Agricultural intensification escalates future conservation costs
2013年4月15日 · Agricultural intensification—increasing agricultural inputs to improve per-hectare yields rather than expanding land under cultivation—is often posited as a strategy for reducing agriculture encroachment into forest, while satisfying agricultural demand (SI Text) (4 – 8).
The ethics of sustainable agricultural intensification
Agricultural intensification can be technically defined as an increase in agricultural production per unit of inputs (which may be labour, land, time, fertilizer, seed, feed or cash).
Sustainable intensification in agriculture: the richer shade of …
2017年8月23日 · Agricultural intensification is required to feed the growing and increasingly demanding human population. Intensification is associated with increasing use of resources, applied as efficiently as possible, i.e. with a concurrent increase in both resource use and resource use efficiency.
Agricultural intensification: The status in six African countries
New measures of agro-ecological potential and urban gravity are developed to analyze their impact on population density and market access. The descriptive and regression analyses show that the patterns of intensification across countries …
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