Traditional agriculture

Altieri MA (1990) Why study traditional agriculture In Carrol CR, Vandermeer IH, Rosset P (eds) Agroecology. McGraw-Hill, New York... 

Rural Exodus Syndrome Environmental degradation through abandonment of traditional agricultural practices Loss of ecosystems and species diversity, genetic erosion, eutrophication, acid rain, greenhouse effect, contamination of water bodies and air, freshwater scarcity, soil degradation, marginalization, rural exodus... 

Traditional agriculture views soil as a relatively inert holder of moisture and nutrients. Effort is made to conserve the soil, maintain its structure and resupply nutrients and water as they are removed. The easiest and cheapest way to supply water is through irrigation. The easiest way to supply nutrients is in the most concentrated form, high-analysis chenucal fertilizers. 

Traditional agriculture considers only those substances containing one or more of the three primary nutrierrts as fertilizers. Mat comparries sell rrrixtures of the above substance designed to contain all three of the primary nutrients, i.e., designed to be complete... 

There has been very little research conducted on the morama bean, largely because it is found in the wild and only consumed by a small percentage of the population in the coimtries where found. However, in these areas, it is used by indigenous communities as a source of food, feed, shelter, and medicine, thus contributing to improve the quality of life in traditional agricultural and forest systems in various ways. The morama has enormous potential value that needs to be exploited for the... 

Revolution hardly became established, rather, so called traditional agricultural methods by default that lead to heavy soil erosion, remained predominant until today. 

Traditional agriculture has no specific written guidelines or control-system, rather, it is embedded in a specific socio-cultural environment, which is usually passed on orally and its production is mainly for subsistence. 

Land use systems hunters and gatherers Traditional agriculture in the 50ties OA without contract OA wr WOC OA with contract OAwc LEISA/ Integr. agr. appr. Green rev. / conv. agric. 

AF=Agroforestry F = Forestry OA=Organic Agriculture TA=Traditional Agriculture Figure 2. Organic agriculture-forestry-land use system... 

Tricolorin A (46) and G (47) are prototype members of this class of amphiphilic glycoconjugates (24). They constitute the allelochemical principles of Ipomoea tricolor Cav., a plant used in traditional agriculture in Mexico as a cover crop to protect sugar cane against invasive weeds. Their molecular mechanism of action likely involves the inhibition of the FT-ATPase of the plasma membrane, an enzyme that plays a crucial role in plant cell physiology. Moreover, 46 acts as a natural uncoupler of photophosphorylation in spinach chloroplasts. This compound also displays general cytotoxicity against several... 

Expanding renewable and biomass feedstocks to non-traditional agricultural residues requires answering the question posed in the title, restated ... 

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