Challenges and Action Points to Amplify Agroecology in Europe

Grand challenges in agroecology and land use systems

Historically, agroecosystems the world over have responded rather resiliently to the increasing pressure for producing food for the expanding human population. Over the years, the two major strategies for producing more food were to increase the area under crops and to increase the production per unit area. The former was the main strategy until agriculture became commercialized, especially in ...

A holon approach to agroecology

Systems thinking contributes to envisioning agricultural sustainability. However, it faces two dilemmas, recently highlighted by complexity theory: the problems of boundary and change. We propose that interpreting Koestler’s holon as an intentional entity embedded in an ecology of contexts provides an ontological construct which addresses both of these issues. The holon is in some ways a whole ...

Action can amplify motion-induced illusory displacement

Local motion is known to produce strong illusory displacement in the perceived position of globally static objects. For example, if a dot-cloud or grating drifts to the left within a stationary aperture, the perceived position of the whole aperture will also be shifted to the left. Previously, we used a simple tracking task to demonstrate that active control over the global position of an objec...

Southeastern Europe – Global Challenges And

eHealth in Europe - Status and Challenges.

OBJECTIVES To present European reflections on the concept of eHealth and emerging challenges related to further development of eHealth in Europe. METHODS A survey with 10 questions was distributed to representatives of the national member associations of the European Federation of Medical Informatics (EFMI). RESULTS The results document a shift from a constricting ICT-orientation to develop...