Applications of IoT for optimized greenhouse environment and resources management

C Maraveas, D Piromalis, KG Arvanitis… - … and Electronics in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The role of Internet-of-Things (IoT) in precision agriculture and smart greenhouses has been
reinforced by recent R&D projects, growing commercialization of IoT infrastructure, and …

Agricultural greenhouses: Resource management technologies and perspectives for zero greenhouse gas emissions

C Maraveas, CS Karavas, D Loukatos, T Bartzanas… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Resource management in agriculture is considered a pivotal issue because greenhouse
farming and agriculture-related activities generate about 10–29% of all global greenhouse …

“Inclusive business” in agriculture: Evidence from the evolution of agricultural value chains

LA German, AM Bonanno, LC Foster, L Cotula - World Development, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustained interest by the business community in commercial agriculture in the global South
has been welcomed for its potential to bring capital into long neglected rural areas, but has …

Global land deals: what has been done, what has changed, and what's next?

WW Wolford, B White, I Scoones, R Hall… - The Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In 2010, we formed the Land Deal Politics Initiative to study the rising number of large-scale
land deals taking place around the world. We organised small grant competitions and …

La Via Campesina – transforming agrarian and knowledge politics, and co-constructing a field: a laudatio

SM Borras Jr - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT La Via Campesina has revalorized agrarian politics, transformed knowledge
politics, and co-constructed the field of Critical Agrarian Studies. It has shown the important …

[HTML][HTML] Smallholders in agro-industrial production: Lessons for rural development from a comparative analysis of Ghana's and Indonesia's oil palm sectors

A Ruml, D Chrisendo, AM Iddrisu, AA Karakara… - Land Use Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
By successfully including smallholders, the oil palm boom in Southeast Asia has contributed
significantly to rural economic development and poverty alleviation, notwithstanding its huge …

Politically engaged, pluralist and internationalist: Critical agrarian studies today

SM Borras - The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Critical Agrarian Studies has three actual and aspirational interlocking features
which together connect the worlds of academic research and practical politics: it is politically …

[HTML][HTML] Myths about the feminization of agriculture: Implications for global food security

N Kawarazuka, CR Doss, CR Farnworth, R Pyburn - Global Food Security, 2022 - Elsevier
The term “feminization of agriculture” is used to describe changing labor markets that pull
men out of agriculture, increasing women's roles. However, simplified understandings of this …

[HTML][HTML] Narratives of scarcity: Framing the global land rush

I Scoones, R Smalley, R Hall, D Tsikata - Geoforum, 2019 - Elsevier
Global resource scarcity has become a central policy concern, with predictions of rising
populations, natural resource depletion and hunger. The narratives of scarcity that arise as a …

[HTML][HTML] Plantations, women, and food security in Africa: Interrogating the investment pathway towards zero hunger in Cameroon and Ghana

LN Fonjong, AY Gyapong - World development, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, we critically engage with SDG-2-Target 2.3 and SDG-5 to examine how and
why large-scale agricultural land acquisitions modify the social relations of women's food …