(ACIAR) was established in June 1982 by an Act of the Australian Parliament. Its mandate is to help identify agricultural problems in developing countries and to commission collaborative research between Australian and developing country researchers in fields where Australia has a special research competence. Where tradenames are used this constitutes neither endorsement of nor discrimination a...

A combination of indoor spraying and use of insecticide-treated bed nets has slashed cases of malaria, but now researchers are reporting widespread resistance of mosquitoes to the chemicals used to kill them. Agricultural pesticides appear to be playing a role in fostering this resistance.

Buriak, Harper and Gliem (1985) analyzed contestant scores on the National FFA Agricultural Mechanics Contest. The researchers found that undetermined contestant variables accounted for a majority of the variance in the total contest scores. Buriak, Harper and Gliem (1985, p.32) concluded that “Investigations of the prediction value of selected variables could prove useful in the development an...

the aim of this research was to investigate this research was to investigate the relationship between agricultural information system (ais) members' viewpoint towards organic products and their environmental in central district of boyer- ahmad county. the research population included researchers, extension agents and contact farmers of the study area and based on this population numbers, t...

the aim of this paper was to study knowledge intensive entrepreneurship role in innovative performance in agricultural technology management by entrepreneurial r&d; definition implementing as a casual-effect research by using casual model. statistical population of the study was consisted of 2768 agricultural research specialists in iran, one out of each six regional groups of provinces (n= 25)...

worldwide, asbestos fibers utilized in fiber cement boards, have been recognized as harmful materials regarding the public health and environmental pollutions. these concerns motivate the researchers to find the appropriate alternatives to substitute the asbestos material towards the sustainability policies. in this paper, the applicability of asbestos replacement with three types of agricultur...

Advancing research and development (R&D) aspects is one of the main approaches to deal with this critical issue in agricultural sectors. The purpose paper evaluate instruments comprehend association between knowledge management, absorptive capacity, innovation capability Malaysia's agriculture R&D. Focusing on individual-level analysis, study quantitatively assesses validity reliability...