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A review of research on forest-related environmental markets (including certification schemes, bioen
This review analyses the major themes extant across 199 research articles published in various peer-reviewed forestry and economics journals between J...
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Agricultural systems: sensitivity to climate change.
Agriculture is among the sectors most directly exposed to climate variability and change, with consequences for food production and food security. Thi...
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Agroforestry uses of inland salt-affected landscapes.
Salinity-affected landscapes, which now occupy nearly 1 billion ha (about 7% of the world's land area), are of geological or anthropological origin. T...
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Alternative protein sources in diets for farmed tilapia.
Global tilapia production has been increasing in the last decade, with output doubling from 830&thin;000 mt in 1990 to 1.6 million mt in 1999. Tilapia...
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Alternatives to antibiotics in feed for pigs.
The beneficial effects on pig health and growth performance as well as the economic benefits of using growth promoting and/or prophylactic antibiotics...
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Analysing time series data of phenotypic measurements -trade-off in sexual reproduction and vegetati
In this example, we analyse repeated phenotypic measurements of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) from a greenhouse experiment. We hypothesize that ...
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Animal feeding trials for assessing GMO safety: answers and questions.
The safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) plants and their derived food and feed is nowadays a matter of lively debate. Any nutritional co...
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Aromatic plant species in agricultural production systems based on marginal soils.
Globally, agricultural production systems are under greater pressure than they were at any time in human history. Although agriculture is expected to ...
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Assessing impacts of organic production on pork and beef quality.
Organic livestock farming is based on a low-input production method, aiming to provide meat of a high product and process quality rather than maximizi...
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Balancing science versus societal issues in poultry nutrition.
Scientific rational exists for the formulation of poultry diets. However, this practice is now being impacted, and sometimes overshadowed, by societal...
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