Putting food into agricultural policy

Agricultural Management, Water Quality and Ecology: Putting Practice into Policy1

Since the late 9 0s, point sources of water-quality impairment have been reduced due to their ease of identification and the passage of the Clean Water Act in 97 . However, water-quality problems remain, and as further point-source control becomes less costeffective, attention is being directed towards the role of agricultural nonpoint sources in water-quality degradation. In a 99 US Environmen...

putting prevention into practice

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Putting Theory into Practice

What Can Agricultural Land Use Planning Contribute to Food Production and Food Policy?

Food Security and Food Sovereignty are two of the most important issues facing Food Policy. Maintaining productive farmland and sustainable farms as well as providing adequate volumes of foodstuffs have led to measures to protect farmland and farm activities in many countries. These include land use planning with agricultural zones and in some jurisdictions legislation to ‘protect’ agriculture ...

Putting concepts into context.

At first glance, conceptual representations (e.g., our internal notion of the object "lemon") seem static; we have the impression that there is something that the concept lemon "means" (a sour, yellow, football-shaped citrus fruit) and that this meaning does not vary. Research in semantic memory has traditionally taken this "static" perspective. Consequently, only effects demonstrated across a ...