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Agricultural & Rural Studies (A&R, ISSN 2959-9784) is an international multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary platform for communicating advances in fundamental and applied studies on contemporary agricultural, rural, and farmers' issues and policies.
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Crossref's 2025 Annual Report is out. From metadata and Research Nexus vwork to infrastructure modernisation and community growth, it captures a year of delivery and change. https://doi.org/10.64000/hsdpk-8cm70

#Crossref #metadata #research #funders #librarians #community
December 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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💧 NEW #CRC1502 publication! Zhu et al. review & benchmark large-scale irrigation area mapping. 10 European datasets vs EUROSTAT (2020) show survey stats are key—esp. humid regions where remote sensing has limits.

Open data + code available 👇
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#Irrigation #RemoteSensing
December 17, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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📣Interested in investigating whether/how land users consider soil biodiversity🪱 in their management decisions & what consequences this have for designing incentives? While being part of an interdisciplinary research training group? Apply here⬇️

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December 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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🌱 From Rhizosphere: Noninvasive geophysical mapping links soil variability to grapevine root architecture and water status, supporting precision irrigation and rootstock selection. (Sam Dudley, Andrew J. McElrone, Megan Bartlett)
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#PlantScience #SoilScience
December 17, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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IAMO in cooperation with the #DCZ organises a #GFFA expert panel on #water-smart #agriculture in arid regions on 16 January 2026 in #Berlin, Germany. Further information: t1p.de/ztkc1
GFFA expert panel on water-smart agriculture in arid regions
Within the framework of the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA), IAMO in cooperation with the Sino-German Agricultural Centre (DCZ) organises a panel discussion entitled “Water-Smart Agricult...
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December 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Fresh from the press, the last issue for this year! 🎉 Agricultural & Rural Studies, 3(4), 2025 has now been published!

Consult the contents below and for full OA, follow the link:
sccpress.com/ars/issue/vi...

#OA #publishing #current #research #Agriculture #Rural #studies
December 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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"Seismic waves can check soil health and boost yields."

Excellent initiative from George Monbiot et al : making regenerative farming still more viable.
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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December 9, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Hi. Today in “One day, one paper”, Mixed plantations strengthen soil biodiversity and multifunctionality, with subsoil rare taxa and fungi emerging as pivotal drivers of nutrient cycling, resilience, and multidimensional ecosystem functions, challenging the traditional topsoil-centric perspective 🌎
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December 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Registration is now open for the Canadian Federation of Agriculture’s (CFA) annual general meeting in Ottawa. Early bird registration is available until January 21. Learn more www.cfa-fca.ca/2026-... #sustainableagriculture #sustainablefarming #albertaag #agriculture
December 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
China’s massive tree‑planting has made the country greener—but also drier in many regions, while the Tibetan Plateau gets wetter, as new forests use huge amounts of water. Policymakers now have to balance climate gains with hidden water trade‑offs.

#China #Climate #Reforestation #WaterSecurity
China has planted so many trees it's changed the entire country's water distribution
Huge "regreening" efforts in China over the past few decades have activated the country's water cycle and moved water in ways that scientists are just now starting to understand.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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Final reminder to all SSSI members to join the AGM tomorrow (Thursday) ahead of #worldsoilday

#soilscience #irishsoil
Reminder to all SSSI members to register for upcoming AGM (hybrid event)

Date: Thursday 4 December 2025

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SSSI is open to all interested/working in the area of #soilscience

🪱 Become a member:
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December 3, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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🍅From American Journal of Agricultural Economics: Heat during transit raises tomato damage, especially when paired with heavy traffic. High-resolution data show climate-driven postharvest losses remain small overall. (Timothy K. M. Beatty)

▶️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

#AgEconomics
December 2, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Join us for The Fourth Annual Work Meeting of Agricultural & Rural Studies, February 7–8, 2026 @ The Scholar Community Center (Xitian), Shaoxing, China (​Hybrid Format, Zoom available)

​Organizers: Rural Revitalization Academy of Zhejiang Province; Green Rural Revival Program Academy, ZAFU

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The Fourth Annual Work Meeting, 2026 | Agricultural & Rural Studies
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December 4, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement that we honour each year with an end-of-year message from our CEO, along with a special video. Thank you for being a part of the journey with us.

Read more (link below) and consider donating today on #GivingTuesday.

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What Does Success Really Look Like? 30 Years of Growing Root Systems for the Future
What does success look like after 30 years of place-based work? Ecotrust Canada's CEO shares how community partnerships, deep roots, and long-term thinking create lasting change.
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December 2, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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🎉 Check out the latest from Qin Gu’s team at Nanjing Agricultural University: “Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere” (Cell Host & Microbe) 👉 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Keystone Pseudomonas species in the wheat phyllosphere microbiome mitigate Fusarium head blight by altering host pH
Fusarium graminearum (F. graminearum) pathogen induces wheat phyllosphere alkalinization, promoting the development of Fusarium head blight (FHB). Xu et al. show that host-acidifying Pseudomonas, sele...
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November 23, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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New paper w. Chris Doughty & Ben Wiebe on some fun experiments a forest canopy in Panama: Experimental manipulations of albedo and mortality of upper canopy leaves in a tropical forest diverge from earth system model results: tinyurl.com/22kzdj3z

Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
November 22, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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The current level of anomalies in the Northern Hemisphere is insane, we are past the 2023/2024 anomalies and the +1C vs 1991/2020

Note specially the anomalies from 30N to 80N: It's brutal and there is not a bit of hype here.
It is what it is: insane

Maps kudos:Tropicaltibit & Ryan Maue
November 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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New Online 1st Article “Geography, the foundational economy, and the fallen-below” by David Bassens, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, and Karel Williams.

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Geography, the foundational economy, and the fallen-below - David Bassens, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Karel Williams, 2025
Amid the ongoing cost-of-living crisis in Europe, this article calls for more academic engagement with the concept of foundational liveability. Current conceptu...
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October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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With an area of 32 km², the Murnauer Moos is the largest contiguous, naturally preserved moorland in Central Europe. With a view of this beauty, I wish my beloved and much appreciated fellow inhabitants of planet Earth a good evening and a blessed night. May God bless you.❤️💙💚
October 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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My main PhD work @monteirolab.bsky.social is now in @natecoevo.nature.com! We found a Hox gene promoter that helps butterflies🦋adjust their wing eyespots in response to seasonal temperatures🍃🍂, shedding light on the evolutionary origin of phenotypic plasticity. 1/9 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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A big shift in technology.

The purple bars show the sales of cars powered by combustion engines in China.

In green, you see the rise of electric cars in recent years.
October 24, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Flashback | Lloyd, B. (2025). Spatial Modeling of Child Malnutrition and Farming Methods in Rural Sub-Sahara Africa. Agricultural & Rural Studies, 3(2), 13. doi.org/10.59978/ar0...

#A&R #OA #Publishing #Research #Child-Malnutrition #Sub-Sahara #Farming
October 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM