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Natural Resources (NR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and engineers (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues…
Vanessa Kleofas, Laura Sommer, Marco A. Fraatz, Holger Zorn, Martin Rühl
The industrial cultivated basidiomycete Agrocybe aegerita , also known as “Pioppino” in Italy or “Samthaube” in Germany, is a high quality mushroom with a delicious aroma. Cultivation of A. aegerita on wheat straw supplemented with different residues of the f…
Marco Biagi, Lisa Martelli, Claudia Perini, Luigi Di Lella, Elisabetta Miraldi
It is widely known that the genus Amanita includes various taxa: edible and inedible, dangerous and sometimes even deadly species. Despite the number of studies carried out on this genus, the toxicity of some species, such as the group of white fungi, remains…
Patrizia Russo, Lara Riguccio, Laura Carullo, Giovanna Tomaselli
Cavagrande del Cassibile is an important nature reserve in South East Sicily (Italy). It was established to conserve and restore the natural Mediterranean vegetation in the area, as well as to protect and increase the local fauna. Inside the reserve there are…
Christopher L. Gilbert, Harriet K. Mugera
Food commodity prices have recently increased sharply and become more volatile, highlighting greater uncertainty in markets and threatening global food security. High fuel prices combined with legislative mandates have increased biofuel production raising the…
Annae M. Senkoro, Filomena M. A. Barbosa, Sharmila F. Moiane, Gabriel Albano, Ana I. Ribeiro de Barros
Tree bark is one of the most important non-timber forest products. In less developed countries, it is used for multiple purposes, particularly in traditional medicine. This paper addresses the question of bark exploitation, uses, and impacts in Madjadjane vil…
Ákos Bereczky, Kristóf Lukács, Mária Farkas, Sándor Dóbé
γ -valerolactone (GVL) is a C5-cyclic ester that can be produced from biomass providing a potentially renewable fuel for transportation and feedstock for the chemical industry. Experiments were performed with fossil diesel (D), D + biodiesel (BD) and D + BD +…
Frederick Cassian Kahimba, Khamaldin Daud Mutabazi, Siza Donald Tumbo, Kenneth Francis Masuki, Winfred Baptist Mbungu
A study was conducted to assess the adoption and scaling-up of Conservation Agriculture in Arumeru district, Arusha region, northern Tanzania and Chamwino and Dodoma Urban districts in Dodoma region, Central Tanzania. The study employed structured questionnai…
Jason Jabbour, Carol Hunsberger
The pursuit of human needs and demands is placing more pressure on land resources than ever before. The challenge of feeding 7 billion people is increasingly competing with rising demands for materials and biofuels. Deforestation and land degradation are amon…
Wenjun Chen, Lori White, Jan Z. Adamczewski, Bruno Croft, Kerri Garner, Jody S. Pellissey, Karin Clark, Ian Olthof, Rasim Latifovic, Greg L. Finstad
Barren ground caribou are one of the most important natural resources for northern aboriginal peoples in Canada, and their responsible management has been identified as a top priority by nor thern communities and governments. This study is aimed to assess the…
Ranjan Roy, Ngai Weng Chan
Human resource development assumes as a golden key for a knowledge-based economy and com petitiveness. This study evaluates policy integration of human resource development (HRD) in agricultural sector within the context of multi-level governance ( i.e ., int…
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