Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

Introduction of automation into agriculture has lowered production costs, reduced the
drudgery of tedious manual labor, increased the level of accuracy of mechanized …

Abstract Smart Farming Technologies (SFTs) can improve production output while
minimising costs and preserving resources; however, they are scarcely adopted by farmers …

This article discusses the economic dimensions of agroecological farming systems in
Europe. It firstly theoretically elaborates the reasons why, and under what conditions …

Adoption of sustainable agricultural practices (SAP) is essential for economic, social and
environmental adaptation to climate change. For cash crops like Vietnamese coffee, this is …

对农业现代化发展水平进行综合评价, 有利于找出农业现代化发展过程中存在的问题和短板,
对于推动农业现代化快速发展意义重大. 准确科学的评价农业现代化发展水平 …

Contract farming has been shown to increase agricultural productivity and thus welfare of
farmers in developing countries. However, studies that look at the potential environmental …

Agroecology can be considered an approach to farming and food systems which integrates
the use of ecological principles and biological cycles methods of the traditional systems to …

Weed control is a basic agricultural practice, typically achieved through herbicides and
mechanical weeders. Because of the negative environmental impacts of these tools …

The establishment of modern agricultural demonstration zones, as an important initiative to
promote the modernization of agriculture, has attracted much attention as to whether its …