The rapid changing area in Yom watershed at Phrae province during 2002-2009, half of land using approximately 1.2 million hectare was forest and paddy rice area. On the other hand, a rest of land using approximately 1.1 million hectare was an invasive forest through maize area. The effect of...

People all around the world have come into a consensus on climate change that is a fact with an increasing number of unusual climate-related events and extremities. The present study is an attempt to explore the views of local farmers on climate change and uncertainty and evaluating their prevalent ...

The economic benefit of farmland shelter forest network regeneration in Peixian County, Xuzhou was predicted, aiming to provide reference for the renewal measures and sustainable development in this area. By using static and dynamic economic evaluation indexes, the cost and the benefit of the...

Any system to compensate countries for reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) requires a historical reference level against which future performance can be measured. Here we examine the possibilities Sri Lanka, a small forest country with limited data on forest carbon...

Genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS) is a rapid and cost-effective genome-wide genotyping technique applicable whether a reference genome is available or not. Due to the cost-coverage trade-off, however, GBS typically produces large amounts of missing marker genotypes, whose imputation becomes therefore...

China's economic growth has significantly increased emissions of tropospheric ozone (O₃) precursors, resulting in increased regional O₃ pollution. We analyzed data from >1400 monitoring stations and estimated the exposure of population and vegetation (crops and forests) to O₃ pollution across...

This study analyzed the financial attractiveness of Clean Development Mechanism Afforestation and Reforestation (CDM A/R) in irrigated agricultural settings. The Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of CDM A/R were estimated by analyzing the case of Khorezm region in...

Thailand aims to increase the use of renewable and alternative energy by 25% of total consumption under the Alternative Energy Development Plan (AEDP 2012-2021) by 2021, which include outputs from energy crops. This initiative is likely to put pressure on land resources, especially near parks and...

Trial has been framed to examine the economics of growing teak and cashew nut along with upland paddy in four combinations. The data trends up to 7 years of plantation were extrapolated to project the economic profit using standard economic analysis methods to interpret the benefits of various tree ...

The future of global rice productions in top producing countries is undermined by the impact of climate change threatening food security in the near future. In those European Mediterranean areas where rice is cultivated, this peculiar cropping system plays a crucial role in terms of sociocultural...