Agriculture

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A Comparison of Pesticide Risk Beliefs between Farmers and Farmworkers: Implications for Risk Communication and Education. 
  • A comprehensive quantification of global nitrous oxide sources and sinks. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership. 
  • A review of molecular mechanisms linked to potential renal injury agents in tropical rural farming communities. 
  • Agricultural acceleration of soil carbonate weathering. 
  • Antibacterial soap use impacts skin microbial communities in rural Madagascar. 
  • Are People Living Near Modern Swine Production Facilities at Increased Risk of Influenza Virus Infection? 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Biodiversity needs every tool in the box: use OECMs. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Case study of the effects of atmospheric aerosols and regional haze on agriculture: an opportunity to enhance crop yields in China through emission controls? 
  • Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. 
  • Changes in hydrology and salinity accompanying a century of agricultural conversion in Argentina. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Comparing Environmental Risk Regulations in China and the United States 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • Curbing the U.S. carbon deficit. 
  • Decarbonizing agriculture through the conversion of animal manure to dietary protein and ammonia fertilizer. 
  • Development of a methyl bromide collection system for fumigated farmland. 
  • Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica's PES Program. 
  • Dominant control of agriculture and irrigation on urban heat island in India. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Effective monitoring of agriculture: a response. 
  • Effects of Evolution, Ecology, and Economy on Human Diet: Insights from Hunter-Gatherers and Other Small-Scale Societies. 
  • Environment. Monitoring Earth's critical zone. 
  • Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea mays field 
  • Evaluation of candidate genes for cholinesterase activity in farmworkers exposed to organophosphorus pesticides: association of single nucleotide polymorphisms in BCHE. 
  • Fungal pathogens. 
  • Global and regional drivers of land-use emissions in 1961-2017. 
  • Global biodiversity scenarios for the year 2100. 
  • Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon. 
  • Global value chains and agrifood standards: challenges and possibilities for smallholders in developing countries. 
  • Heterothallic mating in Mucor irregularis and first isolate of the species outside of Asia. 
  • Hidden Loss of Wetlands in China. 
  • High Pesticide Exposure Events and Dream-Enacting Behaviors Among US Farmers. 
  • Impacts of forests on children's diet in rural areas across 27 developing countries. 
  • Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. 
  • Is Food Irrigated with Oilfield-Produced Water in the California Central Valley Safe to Eat? A Probabilistic Human Health Risk Assessment Evaluating Trace Metals Exposure. 
  • Land-use emissions embodied in international trade. 
  • Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of Wastewater-Derived Phosphorus Products: An Agricultural End-User Perspective. 
  • Life cycle assessment of nutrient recycling from wastewater: A critical review. 
  • Low-disturbance farming regenerates healthy deep soil toward sustainable agriculture - Evidence from long-term no-tillage with stover mulching in Mollisols. 
  • Macro-activity patterns of farmworker and non-farmworker children living in an agricultural community. 
  • Marketing child survival. 
  • Monitoring the world's agriculture. 
  • Monte Carlo simulations of the transformation and removal of Ag, TiO2, and ZnO nanoparticles in wastewater treatment and land application of biosolids. 
  • National-level differences in the adoption of environmental health technologies: a cross-border comparison from Benin and Togo. 
  • Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter. 
  • Novel technologies for emission reduction complement conservation agriculture to achieve negative emissions from row-crop production. 
  • Observed and self-reported pesticide protective behaviors of Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers. 
  • Occupational Paraquat and Glyphosate Exposure May Decline Renal Functions among Rural Farming Communities in Sri Lanka. 
  • Occupational health outcomes for workers in the agriculture, forestry and fishing sector: implications for immigrant workers in the southeastern US. 
  • Of hogs and men. Does North Carolina's hog industry raise the risk of infectious disease? 
  • Oil and gas projects in the Western Amazon: threats to wilderness, biodiversity, and indigenous peoples. 
  • Organization of work in the agricultural, forestry, and fishing sector in the US southeast: implications for immigrant workers' occupational safety and health. 
  • Outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157 infections at multiple county agricultural fairs: a hazard of mixing cattle, concession stands and children. 
  • Particle size distribution predicts particulate phosphorus removal. 
  • Pesticide exposure and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. 
  • Pesticides: Perceived Threat and Protective Behaviors Among Latino Farmworkers. 
  • Plant-centered biosystems in space environments: technological concepts for developing a plant genetic assessment and control system. 
  • Post-invasion demography of prehistoric humans in South America. 
  • Potential Opportunities and Challenges for Research Collaboration with Latin America in Agriculture and Food Science. 
  • Predicting soil erosion for alternative land uses. 
  • Property structures, demography and the crisis of the agrarian economy of colonial Bombay Presidency. 
  • Reconciling agriculture, carbon and biodiversity in a savannah transformation frontier. 
  • Reducing atrazine losses: water quality implications of alternative runoff control practices. 
  • Reducing greenhouse gas emissions and adapting agricultural management for climate change in developing countries: providing the basis for action. 
  • Regional differences in hypertensive cardiovascular remodeling between fishing and farming communities in Japan. 
  • Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa. 
  • Reply to Amundson: Time to go to work. 
  • Review of the nutritional implications of farmers' markets and community gardens: a call for evaluation and research efforts. 
  • Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures 
  • Risk factors for reduced glomerular filtration rate in a Nicaraguan community affected by Mesoamerican nephropathy. 
  • Science in Africa: The wheat stalker. 
  • Seeking natural capital projects: Forest fires, haze, and early-life exposure in Indonesia. 
  • Segmented sleep in a nonelectric, small-scale agricultural society in Madagascar. 
  • Serum cadmium levels in pancreatic cancer patients from the East Nile Delta region of Egypt. 
  • Simulated effects of crop rotations and residue management on wind erosion in Wuchuan, west-central Inner Mongolia, China. 
  • The Rise of Fungi: A Report on the CIFAR Program Fungal Kingdom: Threats & Opportunities Inaugural Meeting. 
  • The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing 
  • The effect of an integrated multisector model for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and improving child survival in rural sub-Saharan Africa: a non-randomised controlled assessment. 
  • The energetics of uniquely human subsistence strategies. 
  • The insecticidal potential of scorpion beta-toxins. 
  • The perceived influence of cost-offset community-supported agriculture on food access among low-income families. 
  • Threats Posed by the Fungal Kingdom to Humans, Wildlife, and Agriculture. 
  • Toxicity of stormwater runoff after dormant spray application of diazinon and esfenvalerate (Asana) in a French prune orchard, Glenn county, California, USA. 
  • Trade-offs in water and carbon ecosystem services with land-use changes in grasslands. 
  • Urinary biomarkers indicate pediatric renal injury among rural farming communities in Sri Lanka. 
  • Wildlife identified as major source of Escherichia coli in agriculturally dominated watersheds by BOX A1R-derived genetic fingerprints. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Distinguished Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Division of Earth and Climate Science, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Rosenberg, Gabriel Nathan, Associate Professor of Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies, History
  • Williams, Lloyd, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Corneal Diseases