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FarmLab: digital library

The FarmLab digital library contains text, audio and video materials related to key topics in modern agriculture deriving from the global development trends, the EU policy in the fields of plant-growing and stockbreeding and the scientific discoveries that are changing the farmer’s profession and life in the rural areas.

Regenerative
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'Industry 4.0 and Livestock Farming' Series: Part 5: Challenges of precision livestock farming and IoT

Precision livestock farming is widely known as an approach for employing inputs efficiently and achieving the greatest possible outputs.…

'Agricultural Workers and Sustainable Agriculture' Series: Part 7: Sustainable development and food safety

Especially since the UN Conference on Environment and Development in 1992, trade unions around the world have

Series 'Conservation Agriculture': Part 7: Recommendations for adoption and promotion of Conservation Agriculture

Conservation Agriculture is knowledge intensive and represent

'Agricultural Workers and Sustainable Agriculture' Series: Part 6: The Contributions of Agricultural Workers

Trade unions can use their workplace representation and structures, organizational abilities, experience of collective bargaining, technical know-how and…

Podcast: Do we know Bulgarian science?
Conversation with Petar Teodosiev, BG Science. BG Science is a website, a magazine, a portal, a vlog, and a podcast that unites diverse channels for…
'Industry 4.0 and Livestock Farming' Series: Part 4: Monitoring health parameters during breeding period, sequel

According to a study carried out in 2014, the world’s cattle population was estimated at 1.43 billion while the population of sheep and goat was set at 1.87…

Video: The role of infrastructure
Key barriers to scaling Regenerative Agriculture Impact of the economic situation of farmers Idea of environmental economics and ecosystem services Role of…
'A new green revolution or agribusiness as usual?' Series: Part 3: Results and analysis
In general, environmental and social issues are more prevalent than economic issues: 174 statements were made on environmental issues, 140 statements on social…
'Agricultural Workers and Sustainable Agriculture' Series: Part 5: Importance of employment contracts

Contracts of employment prevailing in agriculture display a great diversity, both within and between countries.

Video: What is Sustainable Agriculture?

Agriculture is facing huge shocks from climate change, it’s become hard to predict the seasons, but the world’s agri-food system is also one of the biggest…

Series 'Conservation Agriculture': Part 6: Designing cropping systems for specific goals
Management measures should be oriented towards maintaining and improving soil productivity while capitalizing on soil moisture. Cover crops, together with no-…
'Industry 4.0 and Livestock Farming' Series: Part 3: Monitoring health parameters during breeding period

Both in dairy and beef cattle, pedometers, along with several other systems, are used in the detection of lameness.