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13. Assessment of sugarcane cultivation in agroforestry systems in Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. / Avaliação do cultivo de cana-de-açúcar em sistemas agroflorestais em Piracicaba, SP.
In Piracicaba, many smallholders grow sugarcane in areas of high solpe, but the mechanization of the harvest process has made inviable its cultivation under this situation. Agroforestry systems (AFs) are an alternative that may join the cultivation of the crop under this scenario with conservation of natural resources. However, there is lack of research of i
Publicado em: 2003
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14. Tipificação de produtores rurais apoiada em imagens de alta resolução espacial, geoprocessamento e estatistica multivariada
The difficulty of gathering relevant information on land use and agricultural production in Brazil - a task hindered by the vastness of its territory, the dynamic of land use and the lack of financial resources - prevents the updating of cartographic and numerical data via agricultural census. The last, carried out every 10 years, is already obsolete when it
Publicado em: 2002
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15. Induced intensification: Agricultural change in Bangladesh with implications for Malthus and Boserup
Bangladesh is dominated by a small-holder agrarian economy under extreme stress. Production shortfalls, increasing economic polarization, and chronic malnutrition are persistent, but major famine has been diverted in part by significant growth in agriculture. This recent history is open to both Malthusian and Boserupian interpretations—a history we ex
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
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16. Accident Prevention in the Cowshed*
Work accidents were studied at two agricultural settlements in the Haifa area. Most of the accidents were caused by farm animals, particularly by cattle, a fact which is in agreement with a general statistical survey conducted by the Department for Occupational Health of the General Federation of Labour in Israel. However, in the present investigation it was