Towards sustainable farming systems: Effectiveness and deficiency of the French procedure of sustainable agriculture

There is a widespread consensus about the importance of sustainable agriculture. In France, the Farming Orientation Law of July 1999 has set down a precise procedure for the implementation of sustainable agriculture: the contrat territorial d’exploitation – or territorial farm contract (TFC). This paper aims to analyse the TFC effectiveness. An analysis has been made of the TFCs signed in the Midi-Pyrenees Region in south-western France, using statistical analysis and qualitative surveys of a sample of farms. The results show that the most valuable effects have been mainly economic. Effects regarding social and environmental aspects were very limited. But from the point of view of an integrated approach, indirect effects of TFCs can be observed on social and environmental aspects. These results are explained, on the one hand, by farmers’ motivations guided by economic objectives, and on the other hand, by the dominance of professional farming organisations in the implementation of TFC’s procedure. Given these results, two ways of improving the elaboration procedure for TFCs are proposed. Firstly, technical improvements can be made to the diagnostic assessment of farms, and to the choice of actions addressed by the contract. Secondly, organisational improvements can be applied to TFCs elaboration and implementation process, in order to adopt a participatory approach which would involve all rural stakeholders.     

Suitability of Multi-Agent Simulations to study irrigated system viability: application to case studies in the Senegal River Valley

It is assumed that Agent-Based Modeling is a useful technique for water management issues. In particular, it may provide a suitable framework for representing irrigated systems. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate its potential for a specific use: research on irrigated systems’ viability in the Senegal River Valley. The main assumption to be verified is that Multi-Agent Systems constitute a suitable architecture to study theoretically irrigated systems’ viability using simulations. By using Multi-Agent Systems, virtual irrigated systems can be designed that might then be used as virtual laboratories. These virtual labs constitute an alternative when real labs cannot exist for some reason.

In this paper we report on experiments we have conducted using such virtual labs for exploring an Agent-Based Model through the simulation of scenarios. A scenario is defined as a triplet: an environment, a set of individual rules, a set of collective rules. It is evaluated according to the longevity of the irrigated system. An index is defined, based on the ratio of long-enduring simulations among a set of repetitions of a given scenario. Even if simulation results display significant diversity for a given scenario due to random factors in the processes simulated, the ratio of long-enduring simulations is repeatable. This entails to explore the overall behavior of the virtual irrigated system and to build theories concerning the viability of Senegalese irrigated systems. An example is given showing the need for strong coherence for a given environment among individual rules and collective rules.     

三阶开环控制系统根轨迹图形的研判

利用根轨迹极坐标方程对三阶系统根轨迹进行了研究，得出了三阶系统根轨迹的基本图形为双曲线的结论，并对图形的各种具体情况进行了进一步的讨论。     

基于VI技术的农用动平衡机测量系统

采用虚拟仪器（VI）技术设计了农用旋转机械动同测量系统，探讨了硬件和软件设计的核心技术，解决了现场可调和模块化设计、数据库管理及高速实时处理等综合问题，给出了农用碟片式胶乳分离机整机动平衡实验过程和结果。     

Linking water market functioning, access to water resources and farm production strategies: example from Pakistan

As a response to inadequacy in canal water supplies, farmers in Pakistan have invested in private tubewells to control irrigation water resources. Also, they participate in surface water and groundwater markets that take place within tertiary units of the irrigation system.The present paper describes the functioning and organization of these water markets, using information collected in sample watercourses of the Fordwah Branch irrigation system, South-Punjab, Pakistan. The variability in type and intensity of water markets is investigated with regard to access to water resources and farm production strategies and constraints.     

生活污水厌氧消化出水后处理技术研究进展

本文综述了生活污水厌氧消化系统相关后处理技术的技术特点和研究进展,着重分析了好氧处理、稳定塘处理及土地处理三种后处理技术方法,简要介绍了户用一体化装置的研究及应用状况。     

中国科技期刊如何进入国际信息检索系统

 

以被多种国际著名信息检索系统收录的World Journal of Gastroentero

logy(WJG)杂志的发展历程为样例，探讨如何提高中国出版的科技期刊被国际信息系统收

录的命中率，提高期刊的国际地位和知名度，更好地促进与国际的学术交流。

     

降水、氮沉降及放牧对草地生态系统凋落物分解的影响研究进展

草地生态系统对我国建设生态文明、提供生态系统服务、保障食品安全和维护边疆稳定有举足轻重的作用。全球气候变化和过度的人为干扰打破了草地生态系统原有的平衡及稳定性,造成草地退化、沙化和盐渍化现象严重。草地生态系统结构、功能与过程的稳定是保证草地生态系统稳定的基础。凋落物分解过程是草地物质循环的重要环节,对维持草地生态系统稳定性具有重要作用。草地生态系统凋落物分解对降水格局变化、大气氮沉降增加及放牧干扰的响应已有较多的研究。对目前国内外相关研究进行了梳理和总结,发现降水、氮沉降和放牧对草地生态系统凋落物分解的影响,因地理位置和气候变化以及草地类型的异质性而不同,也有针对同一地区开展的研究呈现不同结果的现象。目前对这三种干扰因素中的两因素或三因素交互作用对草地生态系统凋落物分解过程的影响研究较少,而研究气候变化及人为干扰对草地生态系统凋落物的影响对正确理解草地生态系统结构与功能,以及可持续利用与保护草地生态系统具有重要的意义。     

严重沙化草地治理效果分析

[目的] 探究严重沙化草地治理效果,为草地治理、开发和合理利用提供参考。[方法] 2015—2017年,在严重沙化治理区采用同行条播方式混播紫花苜蓿（Medicago sativa）、沙打旺（Astragalus adsurgens）、草木樨（Melilotus officinalis）、羊柴（Hedysarum laeve）、披碱草（Elymus dahuricus）和老芒麦（Elymus sibiricus）6种优良牧草。以自由放牧区为对照,采用棋盘式取样法进行植物种类调查;测定植物多度、频度、盖度、高度和产量;对植物CO₂吸收率、光合速率、蒸腾速率、气孔导度进行测定,并进行多元相关分析;计算植物Shannon-Wiener多样性指数,测定土壤养分含量及电导率。[结果] 严重沙化草地治理后植物种类由治理前（2015年）的14种,分别上升到2018年、2019年和2020年的72、83和97种;与自由放牧区相比,严重沙化治理区牧草的平均高度、盖度、多度、频度及产量均显著（P<0.05）提高;严重沙化治理区的CO₂吸收率、光合速率、蒸腾速率及气孔导度均显著（P<0.05）高于自由放牧区,蒸腾速率与光合速率（P<0.05）、气孔导度与蒸腾速率（P<0.05）、牧草产量与光合速率（P<0.05）和蒸腾速率（P<0.01）具有显著或极显著正相关关系;严重沙化治理区和自由放牧区的主要牧草Shannon-Wiener多样性指数具有显著（P<0.05）差异;严重沙化治理区土壤的有机质、速效磷、速效钾含量以及土壤电导率显著（P<0.05）高于自由放牧区。[结论] 严重沙化草地经过治理植物种类数量剧增,牧草生产水平和草地生态效益大幅度提升,土壤养分显著改善。     

西宁盆地黄土区荷载条件下植被护坡力学效应

为探讨西宁盆地黄土区边坡在荷载条件下植物根系对边坡稳定性的影响,该项研究以西宁盆地西山长岭沟流域为试验区,在自建边坡上种植草本植物垂穗披碱草(Elymus nutans)和灌木植物柠条锦鸡儿(Caragana korshinskii),通过在边坡坡顶施加载荷,边坡坡面布设位移计与土压力盒的方式,监测荷载条件下边坡坡面土体位移与土压力变化;在此基础上,对边坡植被根-土复合体开展剪切试验,分析荷载条件下边坡坡面不同位置处根-土复合体抗剪强度及其变化特征。试验结果表明:在坡顶荷载条件下,在边坡相同位置处的根-土复合体粘聚力c值均大于施加载荷前;3种植物边坡的根-土复合体粘聚力c值均大于相同条件的未种植素土边坡;在荷载条件下,组合植被边坡的坡面土体位移量显著小于单一植被边坡和素土边坡,组合植被边坡在竖直和水平方向的位移量与草本植被边坡相比减小1.60~1.77 mm,与灌木植被边坡相比减小3.78和4.11 mm,与素土边坡相比减小7.39和6.29 mm。研究结果对防治高寒半干旱地区坡面水土流失、浅层滑坡等地质灾害,具有参考价值和指导意义。