Raising agricultural productivity and accelerating agricultural growth are commonly promoted as core development strategies throughout Africa, since the majority of the continent’s poor and malnourished population depends largely on farming. Despite these strategies, agricultural growth in Africa lags behind overall economic growth, and agricultural performance falls below that of other develop...

Agricultural trade between nations is a significant proportion of total international trade. Agricultural trade in transgenic crops faces extra complications due to the existence of domestic and international regimes that focus specifically on agricultural biotechnology. These specialized regimes create legal and commercial challenges for trade in transgenic crops that have significant implicat...

M. P. N. Gent, Department of Forestry and Horticulture, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504; J. A. LaMondia, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Windsor 06095; F. J. Ferrandino and W. H. Elmer, Department of Plant Pathology and Ecology, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven 06504; and K. A. Stoner, Dep...

Agriculture is a complicated system, related to a wide range of environments, which is difficult to deal with perfectly. Web-based agricultural support system (WASS) has been proposed to applicable support agricultural activities, which combines web technologies and agricultural systems. In this paper we analyze the basic characters of the web-based agricultural support system and then describe...

Productionof sophorolipidbiosurfactantsbymultiplespeciesofthe Starmerella (Candida)bombicolayeast clade Cletus P. Kurtzman, Neil P.J. Price, Karen J. Ray & Tsung-Min Kuo Foodborne Bacterial Pathogens and Mycology Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, Agricultural Research Service, US Department of Agriculture, Peoria, IL, USA; and Renewable Product Technology Res...

a Plant Polymer Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA/Agricultural Research Services, 1815 N. University Street, Peoria, IL 61604, USA Ashland Hercules Water Technologies, 500 Hercules Road, Wilmington, DE 19808-1599, USA Mycotoxin Research Unit, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA/Agricultural Research Services, 1815 N. University St...

the present article studies role of iran  export insurance fund on agricultural export sector by during 1385-1391.since activity in agricultural sector is one of the most dangerous economical activities, and the most important problem of planners and politicians of agricultural development reducing risk of economic activities and increasing security coefficient for producers of agricultural sec...

Thesauri are used to tag semi-structured documents, texts, while more complex semantic structures are used to describe (annotate) scientific data. We are creating a Global Agricultural Concept Scheme (GACS) by mapping AGROVOC, CABT and NALT – three major thesauri in the area of food and agriculture, with a beta release in May 2016. We see GACS as a hub linking user-oriented thesauri with semant...

This is an informal introduction to a series of essays on agricultural ethics. These essays have been solicited from people who have thought about the choices we face and the decisions we must make as we try to balance feeding the world’s expected 9 billion people with the need to preserve the food-producing capacity and the natural ecosystems of the Earth for future generations. The goal of th...