Smallholder farms play a vital role in the quest for sustainable development, especially in sub- Saharan Africa (SSA) where livelihoods are still heavily reliant on agriculture. Current environmental and socioeconomic ...

Computational modelling for quantitative agricultural policy assessment in the EU employs more farm level oriented approaches in recent years. This follows policy instruments that increasingly target the farm level and ...

Mit der vorliegenden Dissertation soll das ökologische Beziehungsgeflecht der Elsbeere (<em>Sorbus torminalis</em>) erfasst werden, einer in Deutschland seltenen, in zerstreuten, kleinen Populationen vorkommenden Baumart ...

Alluvial gold mining generates a vast amount of extractive waste that completely covers the natural soil, destroys riparian ecosystems, and negatively impacts river beds and valleys. Since 2002, a gold mining company has ...

Drought is the most severe threat to world crop cultivation and production especially in water shortage areas. Wild barley diversity contains notable variation in phenotype that is essential for its adaptation to abiotic ...

With computer-assisted geostatistics and data mining methods, digital soil mapping (DSM) offers new possibilities for providing soil spatial information for data scarce areas such as West Africa. Such information could ...

Computer-controlled concentrate feeding stations are increasingly used to guarantee an individual feed supply of group-housed horses. Blocking times caused by horses remaining in the feeding station without concentrate ...

In large areas of the world wheat production is highly affected by soil salinity. Increasing the genetic variability of currently used wheat varieties is an efficient approach to overcome production losses and prevent food ...

Root water uptake (RWU) is a key process in the root zone that determines water movement from the soil into roots and transport to the atmosphere via plant leaves. Different RWU models were developed with different assumptions ...

The progress in further improving the quality of results derived by space-geodetic techniques observing in the radio frequency domain, such as Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) or Global Navigation Satellite Systems ...