Agriculture

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 2020 visions. 
  • A human-driven decline in global burned area. 
  • A national assessment of the epidemiology of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, China. 
  • A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership. 
  • An analysis of contact-service in the Migrant Health Service Referral System (MHSRS). 
  • An environmental approach to correcting iodine deficiency: supplementing iodine in soil by iodination of irrigation water in remote areas. 
  • Antibacterial soap use impacts skin microbial communities in rural Madagascar. 
  • Antibodies against H10N8 avian influenza virus among animal workers in Guangdong Province before November 30, 2013, when the first human H10N8 case was recognized. 
  • Are People Living Near Modern Swine Production Facilities at Increased Risk of Influenza Virus Infection? 
  • Are exotic natural enemies an effective way of controlling invasive plants? 
  • Averting biodiversity collapse in tropical forest protected areas. 
  • Barnyard dance: farming that honors animals 
  • Benefits, Facilitators, Barriers, and Strategies to Improve Pesticide Protective Behaviors: Insights from Farmworkers in North Carolina Tobacco Fields. 
  • Biological diversity. Species: would any of them be missed? 
  • Bottom-up and top-down human impacts interact to affect a protected coastal Chilean marsh. 
  • Caring and working : An agrarian perspective. 
  • Centuries of human-driven change in salt marsh ecosystems. 
  • Climate Change, deforestation and the fate of the Amazon 
  • Contamination of rural surface and ground water by endosulfan in farming areas of the Western Cape, South Africa. 
  • Cross-reactivity of monoclonal antibodies against human acrosin to dog spermatozoa 
  • Detection of antibodies against Turkey astrovirus in humans. 
  • Do Payments Pay Off? Evidence from Participation in Costa Rica's PES Program. 
  • Dynamics of environmental supplementation of iodine: four years' experience of iodination of irrigation water in Hotien, Xinjiang, China. 
  • Ecohydrology of agroecosystems: quantitative approaches towards sustainable irrigation. 
  • Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest management. 
  • Ecological forecasts: an emerging imperative. 
  • Effect on infant mortality of iodination of irrigation water in a severely iodine-deficient area of China. 
  • Environment. Monitoring Earth's critical zone. 
  • Epidemiologic features and environmental risk factors of severe fever with thrombocytopenia syndrome, Xinyang, China. 
  • Estimation of in-canopy ammonia sources and sinks in a fertilized Zea mays field. 
  • Evidence for avian influenza A infections among Iowa's agricultural workers. 
  • Evidence of previous avian influenza infection among US turkey workers. 
  • Global threat to agriculture from invasive species. 
  • 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. 
  • Human Oestrus sp. infection, Canary islands. 
  • Interacting effects of land use and climate on rodent-borne pathogens in central Kenya. 
  • Iodination of irrigation water as a method of supplying iodine to a severely iodine-deficient population in Xinjiang, China. 
  • Lessons from agriculture for the sustainable management of malaria vectors. 
  • 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. 
  • Observed and self-reported pesticide protective behaviors of Latino migrant and seasonal farmworkers. 
  • 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. 
  • Potential Opportunities and Challenges for Research Collaboration with Latin America in Agriculture and Food Science. 
  • Potential for respirable quartz exposure from North Carolina farm soils. 
  • Predicting soil erosion for alternative land uses. 
  • Preface. 
  • Preventing zoonotic influenza virus infection. 
  • 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. 
  • Regional differences in hypertensive cardiovascular remodeling between fishing and farming communities in Japan. 
  • Religion and perceptions of community-based conservation in Ghana, West Africa. 
  • 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. 
  • Segmented sleep in a nonelectric, small-scale agricultural society in Madagascar. 
  • Serologic evidence of avian influenza virus infections among Nigerian agricultural workers. 
  • Serologic evidence of exposure to influenza D virus among persons with occupational contact with cattle. 
  • Serologic survey of swine workers for exposure to H2N3 swine influenza A. 
  • Serological evidence for avian H9N2 influenza virus infections among Romanian agriculture workers. 
  • 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 Trojan Chicken study, Minnesota. 
  • The U.S. Culture Collection Network Responding to the Requirements of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit Sharing. 
  • The practice of jhum cultivation and its relationship to Plasmodium falciparum infection in the Chittagong Hill Districts of Bangladesh. 
  • Use antimicrobials wisely. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Kaczan, David, Teaching Assistant, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Pimm, Stuart L., Doris Duke Professor of Conservation Ecology in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke Science & Society
  • Richter, Daniel D., Professor in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Rosenberg, Gabriel Nathan, Assistant Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History