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Compost Quality and Markets Are Pivotal for Sustainability in Circular Food-Nutrient Systems: A Case Study of Sri Lanka

Eric D. Roy, Eric D. Roy, Eric D. Roy, Mohamed Esham et al. • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems (2021)

Sustainable management of municipal solid waste (MSW) is a critical issue around the world, especially in South Asia where waste generation is expected to double by 2050. Closing the food-nutrient cycle through composting biodegradable MSW ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2021.748391

Understanding the Attitudes of Communities to the Social, Economic, and Cultural Importance of Working Donkeys in Rural, Peri-urban, and Urban Areas of Ethiopia

Martha Geiger, Jo Hockenhull, Henry Buller, Gebre Tefera Engida et al. • Frontiers in Veterinary Science (2020)

Working donkeys (Equus africanus asinus) are vital to the development and support of people's livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas of Ethiopia. However, despite their critical role in providing transport, food security, and inc...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fvets.2020.00060

Strategic Tendencies and Priorities of Development of Aquaculture in Russia

K. L. Kudryashova • Управленческое консультирование (2018)

Member States of the United Nations in the autumn of 2015 approved the Agenda for Sustainable Development for the period until 2030. The Agenda also establishes goals for the contribution and methods of fishing and aquaculture production to...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.22394/1726-1139-2018-1-126-131

Shared but Threatened: The Heritage of Wild Food Plant Gathering among Different Linguistic and Religious Groups in the Ishkoman and Yasin Valleys, North Pakistan

Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Zahid Ullah, Andrea Pieroni • Foods (2020)

A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. These valleys are inhabited by diverse, often marginalized, linguistic a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods9050601

Novel strategies to control the biofilm formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the food industry

Rahele Sadeghzadeh, Fatemeh Rafieian, Mahdi Keshani, Zahra Salehi et al. • Future Foods (2024)

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative human pathogenic bacterium that has the ability to form multicellular biofilm (BF) communities. Due to the presence of extracellular polymeric substances, BF protects bacteria from unfavorable envir...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.fufo.2024.100481

Integrated Farming System (IFS): A Review

Shweta Khobragade, Sanghamitra Mohapatra, M. Mahananda, Aarti Singh et al. • International Journal of Economic Plants (2021)

Adoption of Integrated Farming System (IFS) leads to sustainability and stability in farm income through multiple enterprises that aim at maximum utilization of available natural resources to meet the family needs. It aims at generating a t...

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Negative emissions technologies and practices could challenge global resource supply and environmental limits

Selene Cobo, Ángel Galán-Martín, Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez • Communications Earth & Environment (2026)

Abstract Meeting climate goals will most likely require large-scale carbon dioxide removal, yet its sustainability implications remain poorly understood. Here, we conduct a prospective life cycle assessment of multiple negative emissions te...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-026-03348-8

Operating pesticide use reduction within the boundary of food security in peri-urban settings

Yuquan W. Zhang, Bruce A. McCarl, Zhengwei Cao, Qiang Li et al. • Fundamental Research (2022)

Pesticide use in peri-urban areas affects the urban environment and public health, and reducing the use may present food security issues for urban dwellers. In this study, we explore how a municipality-adopted goal of a 20% reduction in pes...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.fmre.2022.04.003

Astaxanthin biofortification enhances tobacco tolerance to lead stress through boosting antioxidant defense, reducing Pb accumulation, and modulating detoxification pathways

Zhongyang Du, Mengjing Liang, Xiaodan Wang, Yizhen Liu et al. • Journal of Advanced Research (2026)

Introduction: Heavy metal pollution including lead (Pb) has become one of the serious global issues threatening food security, human health, and the ecosystem. Exogenous application of astaxanthin (ATX), a potent natural antioxidant, has be...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.jare.2025.07.038

The impact of assistance on poverty and food security in a fragile and protracted-crisis context: the case of West Bank and Gaza Strip

Donato Romano, Gianluca Stefani, Benedetto Rocchi, Ciro Fiorillo • Bio-based and Applied Economics (2020)

This paper assesses the impact of assistance on the wellbeing of Palestinian households. The impact evaluation analysis uses a difference-in-difference approach for the treatment of sample selection bias. The paper uses data from the 2013 a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.13128/bae-8145

Future Protein Supply and Demand: Strategies and Factors Influencing a Sustainable Equilibrium

Maeve Henchion, Maria Hayes, Anne Maria Mullen, Mark Fenelon et al. • Foods (2017)

A growing global population, combined with factors such as changing socio-demographics, will place increased pressure on the world’s resources to provide not only more but also different types of food. Increased demand for animal-based prot...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods6070053

Boosting precision crop protection towards agriculture 5.0 via machine learning and emerging technologies: A contextual review

Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, Gustavo A. Mesías-Ruiz, María Pérez-Ortiz, José Dorado et al. • Frontiers in Plant Science (2023)

Crop protection is a key activity for the sustainability and feasibility of agriculture in a current context of climate change, which is causing the destabilization of agricultural practices and an increase in the incidence of current or in...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143326

Prior Season Crop Type Masks for Winter Wheat Yield Forecasting: A US Case Study

Inbal Becker-Reshef, Belen Franch, Brian Barker, Emilie Murphy et al. • Remote Sensing (2018)

Monitoring and forecasting crop yields is a critical component of understanding and better addressing global food security challenges. Detailed spatial information on crop-type distribution is fundamental for in-season crop condition monito...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/rs10101659

Assessing the Microbial Quality of Shrimp (<i>Xiphonaeus kroyeri)</i> and Mussels (<i>Perna perna</i>) Illegally Sold in the Vitória Region, Brazil, and Investigating the Antimicrobial Resistance of <i>Escherichia coli</i> Isolates

Daniella Tosta Link, Gustavo Guimarães Fernandes Viana, Lívia Pasolini Siqueira, Carolina Magri Ferraz et al. • Antibiotics (2024)

The consumption of seafood is crucial for food security, but poor hygiene along the food production chain can result in low microbiological quality, posing significant risks for public health and seafood quality. Thus, this study aimed to a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics13030242

GROWTH AND YIELD RESPONSES OF SOYBEAN (Glycine max L.) TO ZINC OXIDE (ZnO) NANOPARTICLES FOLIAR APPLICATION

Fayomi Omotola Michael, Olasan Joseph Olalekan, Aguoru Celestine Uzoma, Terhemba Mamnenge Sarah • Biotechnologia Acta (2024)

Aim. This study was purposed to investigate the effects of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) on the growth and yield performance of two soybean (Glycine max L.) varieties, TGX1904-6F and TGX1951-3F, under controlled experimental conditions...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.15407/biotech17.06.056

Computer vision in smart agriculture and precision farming: Techniques and applications

Sumaira Ghazal, Arslan Munir, Waqar Shahid Qureshi • Artificial Intelligence in Agriculture (2024)

The transformation of age-old farming practices through the integration of digitization and automation has sparked a revolution in agriculture that is driven by cutting-edge computer vision and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Thi...

OPENALEX cc-by-nc-nd DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiia.2024.06.004