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. Type of Academic Programme Doctoral. Duration in Semesters 8. Objectives To train and equip highly motivated students, who possess leadership and innovative extension delivery attributes, with the requisite knowledge and skills in so that upon graduation they can become employable in universities, research institutions, relevant government agencies, industries ...

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and Hunger

Some states and developed countries are now considering restoring high priority to agricultural development (2). Policy-makers must get the strategy right. Depletion of , along with the concomitant problems of weeds, pests, and diseases, is a major biophysical cause of low per capita food production ...

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in South – ACSESS

seems to be set to take its rightful place as an environ-mental , while at the same time keeping its focus on agriculture. On a more personal note, I fi nd redox-imorphic features in soils particularly interesting, and my research tends to focus thereon. The results of my research fi nd application primarily in wetland ...

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Agriculture Extension (Hons) Natural and Agricultural Sciences. . University of Kwazulu Natal. Crop Production Systems - and Water Management. Stellenbosch University. Crop Production Systems - Crop Production. Stellenbosch University. Crop Production Systems - Crop Protection and Breeding.

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Managing the Soils of Sub-Saharan |

Irrigation, animal traction or draft animals, and the use of chemical fertilizers are also important. Much of the agrarian stagnation is caused by neglect and misuse of the most basic of all resources, the . In fact, the root cause of the perpetual famine can be traced to the misuse of and water resources and issues related ...

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Key selection criteria Qualifications Post graduate degree public administration, agriculturescience, , environmental or related field. Technical expertise At least 10 years of experience. SPC - Secretariat of the Pacific Community. Updated: 2024-05-09T03:24:41Z. Active locations for . UNDO Home-based 2. SPC Suva 1.

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Review and meta-analysis …

In: Proceedings of the 19th world congress of , solutions for a changing world. 1–6 Aug, Brisbane, Australia. Du Preez CC, Van Huyssteen CW, Mnkeni PNS (2011a) Land use and organic matter in South 1: a review on spatial variability and the influence of rangeland stock production. S Afr J Sci 107(5, 6):27–34

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SSSSA – S

The Society of South (SSSSA) is a scientific society that promotes the advancement of and technology, as well as the responsible practice thereof. The society provide a platform for scientists in South , where research-based publication, resources and information are shared.

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Current Status of Applied Geochemistry Research in Southern …

Activities of the GEMAS and URGE Project Teams for 2013-14 include publication of (ι) a Atlas on the geochemistry of agricultural and grazing land , reporting data elaboration and geochemical maps for 68 determinands, covering almost the entire territory until the Urals, and (ιι) case studies on urban geochemical ...

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A holistic perspective on architecture is needed as a …

A strong consensus exists among , environmental and agricultural communities about the importance of structure and its role in functioning. Soils are widely recognized as highly heterogeneous three-dimensional porous systems (Six, Bossuyt, Degryze, & Denef, 2004 ), where pores define the boundaries among solid components.

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Do we speak one language on the way to sustainable …

vey, conducted within the - community of and other important -related stakeholders. It is based on a large body of -derived definitions of terminology related to functions, ecosystem ser-vices (SESs) and threats (STs). Survey participants rated their agreement with each definition and the suit-

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Potential and limits of land and for sustainable …

Many authors already showed that LUCAS survey is a useful database for digital mapping techniques: erodibility map (Panagos et al., 2014, Panagos et al., 2015), creation of maps for the topsoil organic carbon content of (de Brogniez et al., 2015) or a map of topsoil physical properties (Ballabio et al., 2016).

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Data Centre 2.0: data and knowledge in …

and the Climate Law, which include actions for sustainable management. In December 2020, the EC launched the Observatory (EUSO) to better support EU environmental, agricultural, and climate policies, and to be the long-term central scientific and technical point of reference in the EC concerning all matters. One ...

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14 PhD positions across in Macro and … –

The Innovative Training Network "SOPLAS – ” is funded by the Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) and offers 14 fully funded PhD positions (for early-stage researchers (ESR)) with attractive complementary training activities and generous ...

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Degradation Assessment , A Review of Status …

As formation is an extremely slow process, can be considered a non-renewable resource. Soils should thus be adequately protected and conserved to ensure that functions are not lost or diminished. functions are, however, threatened by a wide range of processes. ’s resources may continue to degrade due to changes in climate, land use and other human activities ...

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Change in active microbial community structure, abundance and …

Biochar amendment of is known to enhance carbon sequestration and fertility. Its effect on microbial activity and functioning, however, is not well understood, particularly in field conditions. We collected topsoil samples from plots in a rice paddy in southwest China either amended with biochar for 18 months or not amended.

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: Policy, knowledge and …

Working with nature can help prevent the worst impacts of climate change, and biodiversity and ecosystem loss. Nature-based solutions offer ways to do this. and policy have begun to recognise their potential. The knowledge base is expanding rapidly, with gaps identified and plans to fill them. However, challenges for implementation remain at the local level, as demonstrated by the case ...

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Global Development in Research: Agriculture …

Abstract. The importance of resource to global food supply and climate change mitigation by carbon sequestration are the two most important factors for the constantly growing interest in global research. In view of its growing recognition as an important natural resource, the United Nations has declared 2015 as the “International ...

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SoilTrEC: Transformations Catchments

Describe from 1st principles how structure impacts processes and function in profiles, Establish 4 EU Critical Zone Observatories to study processes at field scale, Develop a Critical Zone Integrated Model of processes and function, Create a GIS-based modelling framework to delineate threats and assess mitigation at EU scale, Quantify Impacts of changing land use ...

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Connectivity elements and mitigation measures in policy …

The current use of erosion models was investigated through an exploratory survey of 46 model applications covering 18 countries. This novel analysis of erosion model applications revealed a variation in parameterisation, incorporation of landscape elements and mitigation measures with implications for connectivity and ...

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Security for the Union – ScienceDirect

Here, we discuss the implications of security for the Union's sustainability and the possible implementation of this concept in the future EU sustainable management strategies. Capability. capability is related to functions and the capacity of soils to deliver specific ecosystem services (Stavi et al., 2016).

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Editor’s Choice:

The has a well-deserved reputation for high quality and rigorous reporting of research. This selection shows the variety of papers from around world that are providing novel insights into the physics, chemistry and biology that underpin processes, and are directly applicable to decision-making in the real world.

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Journal of – Wiley Online Library

The potential for non-equilibrium water flow and solute transport at any site depends on the nature of the macropore network, which is determined by the factors of structure formation and degradation, including the abundance and activity of biota such as earthworms, properties (e.g. clay content), site factors (e.g. slope position ...

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Assessment of the cover changes and the loss potential …

Despite the ongoing intensive exploitation of the forest resources and documented impacts on the soils and related functions (Cerdà et al., 2010, Borrelli et al., 2013a), today researchers still lack a well-grounded knowledge about the impacts that the forest management activities have on the functions within ...

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