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Ferdinando Branca, Simone Treccarichi, Giuseppe Ruberto, Agatino Renda and Sergio Argento
The choice of basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) genotypes determines key attributes such as yield, flavor, and adaptability, contributing significantly to the overall success and sustainability of basil cultivation practices. As the primary aim of this study, ...
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Ibrahim Abdoul Nasser and Elhadi Adam
Urbanisation is the process whereby cities are transformed into large sprawling areas. Urbanisation combined with a continuous increase in population makes food security crucial for sustainable development. Urbanisation poses a threat to agricultural lan...
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Sayaka Ushimaru, Rintaro Iwata, Eka Rastiyanto Amrullah, Arini W. Utami and Akira Ishida
In many developing countries, ensuring a stable and affordable supply of safe and nutritious food for urban dwellers, especially impoverished households, has become an urgent policy issue due to growing urban populations. Since urban and peri-urban agric...
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Wojciech Sroka, Piotr Sulewski, Jaroslaw Mikolajczyk and Karol Król
This study aims to identify the success factors and main barriers and threats to developing peri-urban farms implementing various business models. For that purpose, a survey was conducted among a group of Polish farms located in the areas surrounding the...
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Kristofor Ludvigson,John P. Reganold,Kevin Murphy
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As a developing alternative crop in both urban and rural environments in the Pacific Northwest, quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is predominantly sown using direct-seeding technology on small- to large-scale farms. However, the utilizati...
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Muhammad Salem, Naoki Tsurusaki and Prasanna Divigalpitiya
The peri-urban area (PUA) of the Greater Cairo Region (GCR) in Egypt has witnessed a rapid urban expansion during the last few years. This urban expansion has led to the loss of wide, areas of agriculture lands and the annexation of many peripheral villa...
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Sofia Boza,Roberto Jara-Rojas
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The objective of this paper is to assess the effect of long-term participation in an extension program on peri-urban family farming earnings. For this purpose, a survey of a sample of 156 participants in the Local Development Program (PRODESAL)...
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Guy M. Robinson, Douglas K. Bardsley, Christopher M. Raymond, Tegan Underwood, Emily Moskwa, Delene Weber, Nicolette Waschl and Annette M. Bardsley
This paper reports on results from two major research projects conducted in South Australia. The first investigates adaptation to climate change in two of the state?s major grain and sheep farming regions, using semi-structured interviews and focus group...
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Roger Attwater and Chris Derry
Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage res...
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Ellen M. Hoffmann, Monish Jose, Nils Nölke and Thomas Möckel
Urbanisation is a global trend rapidly transforming the biophysical and socioeconomic structures of metropolitan areas. To better understand (and perhaps control) these processes, more interdisciplinary research must be dedicated to the rural?urban inter...
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