“Transgenic treadmill”: responses to the emergence and spread of glyphosate-resistant johnsongrass in Argentina

R Binimelis, W Pengue, I Monterroso - geoforum, 2009 - Elsevier
The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate has become the largest-selling crop-protection
product worldwide. The increased use of glyphosate is associated with the appearance of a …

Tecnología agropecuaria y agronegocios: La lógica subyacente del modelo tecnológico dominante

DM Cáceres - Mundo agrario, 2015 - SciELO Argentina
El artículo analiza las principales características del modelo tecnológico del agronegocio en
la Argentina, discute sus principales problemas y propone una reflexión que enmarque la …

Medición y categorización de la conciencia ambiental del alumnado universitario: contribución de la universidad a su fortalecimiento

A Gomera Martínez, F Villamandos de la Torre… - 2012 - digibug.ugr.es
En este escrito, presentamos algunos fundamentos sobre la Educación Ambiental (EA)
como ámbito epistemológico de compleja trama de principios, teorías educativas y …

Tracking on-farm innovations to unearth alternatives to the dominant soybean-based system in the Argentinean Pampa

C Salembier, JH Elverdin, JM Meynard - Agronomy for sustainable …, 2016 - Springer
Farming activities in the Argentinean Pampa have focused on soybean production since the
1990s. The resulting crop** systems may not be sustainable in the long run due to …

Agriculturisation and trade-offs between commodity production and cultural ecosystem services: A case study in Balcarce County

A Auer, N Maceira, L Nahuelhual - Journal of Rural Studies, 2017 - Elsevier
Increased production of commodities in Latin America has transformed the rural landscape
with a potential loss of cultural ecosystem services (CES). The aim of our study was to …

Syndromes of sustainability of development for assessing the vulnerability of coupled human–environmental systems. The case of hydrometeorological disasters in …

D Manuel-Navarrete, JJ Gomez, G Gallopín - Global Environmental Change, 2007 - Elsevier
Syndrome analysis seeks to capture socio-ecological dynamics of interaction by addressing
clusters of symptoms rather than isolated variables. This paper identifies the main symptoms …

Effect of agricultural practices on terrestrial isopods: a review

C Souty-Grosset, A Faberi - ZooKeys, 2018 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Terrestrial isopods (approximately 3700 known species in the world) are encountered in
temperate and tropical regions, from the seashore to high altitudes and from floodplain …

[HTML][HTML] Bee Health and Productivity in Apis mellifera, a Consequence of Multiple Factors

VR Olate-Olave, M Verde, L Vallejos… - Veterinary …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Managed honeybees play an important role as pollinators. The health and nutritional
condition of honeybee colonies (Apis mellifera L.) depends for an important part on …

The growth of the soybean frontier in South America: The case of Brazil and Argentina

HS Klein, FV Luna - Revista de Historia Economica-Journal of …, 2021 - cambridge.org
In the past 50 years, South America has emerged as the dominant world producer of
soybeans, a crop of no significance in the region before the middle of the 20th century. As of …

Land tenancy, soybean, actors and transformations in the pampas: A district balance

HA Urcola, XA De Sartre, I Veiga Jr, J Elverdin… - Journal of Rural …, 2015 - Elsevier
In Argentina, the recent expansion of agriculture has turned into an extreme process almost
completely dominated by soybean. The magnitude and speed of soybean expansion are …