A systematic review highlights that there are multiple benefits of urban agriculture besides food

P Pradhan, M Callaghan, Y Hu, K Dahal, C Hunecke… - Global Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urban agriculture, including peri-urban farming, can nourish around one billion city dwellers
and provide multiple social, economic, and environmental benefits. However, these benefits …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning methods for enhanced stress and pest management in market garden crops: A comprehensive analysis

MGF Odounfa, CDSJ Gbemavo, SPG Tahi… - Smart Agricultural …, 2024 - Elsevier
Various deep learning methods are employed to detect stress and diseases in market
garden crops, as well as to assess their severity. This study aims to comprehensively …

Fast and reliable determination of phthalic acid esters in soil and lettuce samples based on QuEChERS GC–MS/MS

A Sokołowski, MP Dybowski, P Oleszczuk, Y Gao… - Food Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Phthalates are commonly used as plasticizers, and solvents in industry and households. We
propose an application of the QuEChERS method for the determination of six PAEs in the …

Food intake of macro and trace elements from different fresh vegetables taken from Timisoara market, Romania—Chemometric analysis of the results

G Heghedűș-Mîndru, P Negrea, TI Trașcă, DS Ștef… - Foods, 2023 - mdpi.com
Vegetable consumption is recommended and encouraged by all nutritionists and doctors
across the planet. However, in addition to minerals which are beneficial to the body, certain …

[HTML][HTML] Implications and impacts of aligning regional agriculture with a healthy diet

RT Sharp, AS Bellamy, A Clear, SM Finnigan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
One of the most intractable challenges currently facing agricultural systems is the need to
produce sufficient food for all to enjoy a healthy balanced diet while minimising impacts to …

China requires a sustainable transition of vegetable supply from area-dependent to yield-dependent and decreased vegetable loss and waste

Y Tang, J Dong, N Gruda, H Jiang - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
China, the largest country in vegetable supply, faces a transition to sustainable vegetable
production to counteract resource waste and environmental pollution. However, there are …

[HTML][HTML] Energy efficiency of glasshouses and plant factories for sustainable urban farming in the desert southwest of the United States of America

MOK Azad, NS Gruda, MT Naznin - Horticulturae, 2024 - mdpi.com
The extreme heat and water scarcity of the desert southwest in the United States of America
present significant challenges for growing food crops. However, controlled-environment …

Veg-DenseCap: Dense captioning model for vegetable leaf disease images

W Sun, C Wang, J Gu, X Sun, J Li, F Liang - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
The plant disease recognition model based on deep learning has shown good performance
potential. However, high complexity and nonlinearity lead to the low transparency and poor …

Optimal design of light microclimate and planting strategy for Chinese solar greenhouses using 3D light environment simulations

D Xu, M Henke, Y Li, Y Zhang, A Liu, X Liu, T Li - Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
Light has a significant impact on crop production. The objective of this study was to explore
the optimal lighting structure parameters and the corresponding planting strategy of Chinese …

An improved YOLOv8 method for identifying empty cell and unqualified plug seedling

L Li, J Yu, Y Lu, Y Gu, S Liang, S Hao - Journal of Real-Time Image …, 2024 - Springer
A lightweight seedling detection model with improved YOLOv8s is proposed to address the
seedling identification problem in the replenishment process in industrial vegetable seedling …