Sentence examples for farming context from inspiring English sources

Fifteen of the 24 tested descriptors of environmental and farming context induced significant variability in butterfly species richness and abundance of generalist butterflies.

Moreover, methane was seen as part of the specific farming context, particularly in the uplands, resonating with the culture of 'natural' production and the historical and cultural practices associated with these farming systems.

The first step of the framework is to design a farm typology that is able to characterise the diversity of current CMS in terms of their technical nature, farming context, and performance.

Jouven and Baumont (2008) modeled grassland-based beef systems and found that meat production could be maintained by deploying biodiversity-friendly practices on up to 40% of farm area; the practices resulting in the optimal production biodiversity equilibrium depended on farming context, that is, type of grassland, overall stocking rate and herd management.

The northern black cultures while distinctive as to language and forms of music and dance formed out of a mixed farming context unlike that of the Damara and Herero.

All scenarios (Fig. 2) were realised in a farming context or at least tested in experimental setups.

Whereas most studies of bird diversity in forest/farmland mosaic landscapes have focused on high quality woodland remnants in a hostile agricultural matrix, this study has considered the influence of man-made plantations in a less intensively farmed context.

Both these farming contexts are subject to the same multi-objective Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme.

The six-class typology we developed corresponded to a great diversity of CMS with contrasting performances and farming contexts.

They suggest some degree of poverty alleviation and possibly other positive outcomes for adopters, but these outcomes also depend on the small-scale farming contexts and on whether adoption was emergent or due to development assistance interventions.

Despite their customisation to the farming contexts studied, the basic structure and underlying logic of many of the developed indicators may be of much wider use in similar livestock-based agro-ecosystems.