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Drivers and restraints for economic and technical efficiency in dairy farms / Helena Hansson -- tDoes Gibrat's law hold amongst dairy farmers in Northern Ireland? / Philip Kostov ... [et al.] -- Shannon entropy of ammonia volatilization from fertilized agricultural soils / G. D. Liu, Y. C. Li, A. K. Alva -- Economic analysis of precision farming technologies at the farm level: two German case studies / Andreas Meyer-Aurich, Markus Gandorfer, Alois Heissenhuber -- Restructuring livestock farms under oil boom economy in transition country: case study of Mangistau Oblast, Kazakhstan / Wataru Yamamoto, Leonid Gurevich, Aigul Kabinova -- Can the sustainable livelihood framework be quantified? The diverse livelihoods in the Taita Hills of Kenya / Eija Soini -- Bio-physical and socio-economic determinants of adopting a diversified cropping system: a case study from Bangladesh / Sanzidur Rahman -- Herd management, productivity, and land use pattern of dual-purpose cattle farms in the semi-humid region of central Nicaragua: what are the main obstacles for environmentally sound Intensification? / Wataru Yamamoto, Muhammad Ibrahim -- Growing more rice with less water in Asia: identifying and exploring opportunities through system of rice intensification / Abha Mishra, V. M. Salokhe.