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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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Integrated rice-duck farming system (IRFS), as an environmentally friendly technology, has been applied and practiced in many provinces in China and some countries in Asia. There are various ecological effects to be proved in IRFS. This paper reviewed studies on the ecological effects of ducks on rice canopy structure, rice...
China
Journal article
2005
The culture of ducks in rice fields is a long-standing traditional integrated farming practice in China. There has been a wide variety of studies on ecological and economic benefits from raising duck in rice fields, such as decreasing harmful pesticides and chemical fertilizers, a high efficacy in nutrient recycling, and...
China
Journal article
2010
A field plot experiment was conducted to study the community structure and species diversity of major predatory natural enemies in a rice-duck integrated farming system across rice growth season. Three treatments were installed, namely, rice-duck farming, conventional rice farming, and the control. The dominant species of major predatory natural enemies...
China
Journal article
2011
The integrated rice and duck farming system, as a comprehensive environmental-friendly planting-breeding technique, is developed from Chinese traditional farming-raising ducks in paddy fields. There is a mutualism relationship between rice and duck when they grow together in paddy fields. Ducks can take controls on some harmful organisms in the fields....
China
Journal article
2005
Integrated rice-duck farming technology, as an environmental friendly technology, has been applied and practiced in many countries in Asia and in many provinces or areas in China. In order to promote this technology more effectively and scientifically, some problems or issues should be addressed: (1) selection of rice and duck...
China
Journal article
2005
A field experiment with four treatments of rice-duck farming systems was conducted in the Zengcheng Teaching and Research Base of South China Agricultural University to further understand the effects of this farming system on the physiological characters of rice. The results showed that rice-duck farming could decrease the plasma membrane...
China
Journal article
2007
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