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Agroecology plays an important role in contributing to the eradication of hunger and extreme poverty, and as a means to facilitate the transition to more productive, sustainable and inclusive food systems. Creating a greater awareness of agroecology and its advantages is an important step to help policy-makers, farmers and researchers to apply this approach to achieve a world without hunger.

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Mechanical stimulation of duck on rice phyto-morphology in rice-duck farming system

Integrated rice-duck farming system, developed from “raising ducks in paddy fields”, is one of China’s traditional agriculture practices and is encouraged for safe production of rice in China, Japan and other countries in Southeast Asia. To study the effects of ducks on the growth characteristics of rice, a mechanical stimulation...
China
Journal article
2012

Standards of payments for paddy ecosystem services: using Hani Terrace as case study

Agricultural land provides not only food and fiber (important elements of food security), but also serves as non-market commodity with characteristic externalities and public services. Payments for paddy ecosystem services promote farmers’ engagement in ecological or organic agricultural practices and agro-ecological/environmental supply. Standard of payments for ecosystem services is one...
China
Journal article
2012

Agricultural production in Hani Rice Terraces System and related threats — A case study of Zuofu and Mitian Villages in Honghe County, China

The Hani Rice Terraces System is one of the Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System (GIAHS) sites approved by Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). With the development of modern agriculture and tourism, the terraces face several threats, especially from the agricultural sector. Using Zuofu and Mitian Villages of Jiayin Town (Honghe...
China
Journal article
2012

From traditional agriculture to low-carbon agriculture: policies and implications in developed countries

In the past 30 years after the economic reform, agricultural production in China has shifted from traditional to modern agriculture. This has featured high input, high consumption and high productivity agriculture in the country. Although modern agriculture has greatly improved food production in China, it has also exerted huge pressures...
China
Journal article
2012

Agricultural heritage cons ervation: new opportunity for developing eco-agriculture

Due to advances in science and technology and intensive utilization of land, significant agricultural achievements have been attained at the expense certain eco-agricultural and environmental problems. At the same time, it has also been noted that some traditional farming methods are uniquely advantageous regarding adaptation to climate change, ecosystem services...
China
Journal article
2012

Characteristics of nutrient return and uptake in rice-duck mutualism ecosystem of double rice cropping season

Raising ducks in paddy fields is a traditional agricultural model in China. Field experiments were conducted in rice-duck mutualist ecosystems in the double rice cropping region of Hunan Province during May to October of 2010. A conventional rice field was used as the control. The characteristics of nutrient return and...
China
Journal article
2012
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