Agriculture Environment

Agriculture Environment

Agriculture

Technically oriented websites about the environmental aspects of agriculture, including agricultural pollution and its control.

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- Organization concerned about air quality and other impacts of large-scale agricultural burning in Washington and Idaho. Includes links to scientific articles, health information, and stories of people exposed to smoke.
- Information on sustainable production, alternatives to methyl bromide, and related topics.
- A view on agriculture and global warming.
- Research in natural systems agriculture featuring perennial grain polycultures using nature as its measure.
- Abstract of research on effects of aeroionized and ozonized media and of other external factors upon metabolic processes of aerobic organisms (both procaryote and eukaryote).
- Information on a multi-organization research project to find an alternative to the use of methyl bromide fumigation in agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
- Farmers and scientists can learn about nutrient contamination of the Chesapeake Bay and ways to prevent it by using best management practices.
- Essays, photos, and technical references related to the impacts of livestock grazing on public lands in the Southwestern U.S.
- Short articles on environmental aspects of agriculture, freely available for republication, from the agribusiness company Syngenta. Topics include soil and water conservation, precision agriculture, biotechnology, pesticides, and government regulation.
- Abstracts of research on water management and availability, particularly in developing countries and arid regions.
- About U.S. federal and Pennsylvania state policies and programs to reduce environmental impacts of animal agriculture operations, plus information and links on agricultural water use and quality, impacts of concentrated animal feeding, and related topics.
- Research information and advice to agricultural producers on best management practices to maintain water quality, including efficient nutrient and weed management practices and watershed management techniques.
- Carries out research on environmentally sound food production.
- Mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable rural communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy. Supporting sustainable agriculture, reduced pesticide use, and related practices.
- The Blackland Research Water Quality group is currently working on Water Quality research projects to develop Best Management Practices to reduce atrazine, sedimentation and nutrient losses from Central Texas farm and ranchland.
- Collection of indicators, reports, links, data sets and targets on topics related to European agriculture and the environment.
- Personal homepage about soils/agriculture research in Niger, Chad and Israel, including soil erosion and desertification.
- revisions to the regulation governing agricultural burning in California.
- Project to develop a decision support system for assessing tradeoffs between agricultural production and environmental impacts, for different economic, agricultural and environmental policies. Site has project reports, publications, and presentations.
- About an interdisciplinary research project concerning the contribution of agriculture to possible climate change. Graduiertenkolleg Universität Hohenheim, Department of Agricultural Economics,
- CGIAR research initiative into the links between malaria risk and agriculture, and exploring options to reduce malaria in rural areas through better management of agro-ecosystems. General information and sign-up for e-mail discussion group.
- US nonprofit research center that conducts public policy research to reduce the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming p
- On management of acid-forming soils in coastal New South Wales (Australia) agriculture. Drainage of coastal flood plains exposes these soils and releases acid leachate, aluminium, iron, and heavy metals into water.
- Modeling tools for assessment of phosphorus loading to waters from fertilizer and other sources.

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