Naveed Ahmad1,2, Li Li1*, Xiao-Quan Yang1, Zheng-Xiang Ning1 and Muhammad Atif Randhawa3 College of Light Industry and Food Science, South China University of Technology, CN-510640 Guangzhou, PR China Food and Biotechnology Research Center, Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR) Laboratories Complex, PK-54600 Lahore, Pakistan Institute of Food Science and Technology, Uni...

Modern agriculture is increas­ ingly under attack by critics who blame the industry’s specialization and concentration for a number of societal problems, from global warming to rising health care costs. The critics contend that today’s industrial agriculture is too dependent on fossil fuel, and too eager to ply consumers with cheap but nutritionally bankrupt calories. Among the critics, locavor...

Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia Halal Products Research Institute, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Malaysia School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800 Penang, Malaysia SynHiTech, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 0C7, Canada Faculty of Biotechnology...

Taiki NISHIOKA, Yoshiaki YASUTAKE, Yoshiaki NISHIYA, Noriko TAMURA, and Tomohiro TAMURA Graduate School of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, N9W9, Kita-ku, Sapporo 060-8589, Japan Bioproduction research institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-17-2-1 Tsukisamu-Higashi, Toyohira-ku, Sapporo 062-8517, Japan Tsuruga Institute of Biotechnology, Toyobo Co...

There is considerable effort to cover the broad variety of types of risk including natural disaster risk, technical disaster risk, biological disaster risk, transport and energy, research and innovation, critical infrastructure protection, cross-border health threats, implications for the health service systems, environmental impact assessment, green infrastructure, integrated coastal managemen...

1 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Agriculture and Food, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 2 Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra Australian Capital Territory, Australia, 3 Department of Plant Pathology and The Stakman-Borlaug Center for Sustainable Plant Health, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesot...

Today industrial textile has an old tradition, in the 20 th century when man-made fibers became available, the range of industrial textiles was rapidly widened by textiles before, These are currently used to produce fabric reinforced constructions, it is only in the last few decades that industrial textiles have become a commonly considered special group of textiles products, (2) where industri...

European Atomic Forum European Confederation of Agriculture International Air Transport Association International Cargo Handling Co-ordination Association International Chamber of Commerce International Commission on Radiological Protection International Committee on Radiological Units and Measurements International Confederation of Free Trade Unions International Co-operative Alliance Internat...

The expansion of industrial agriculture is a primary driver of tropical forest loss (Kartodihardjo and Supriono, 2000; Abdullah and Nakagoshi, 2008; Sodhi et al., 2010). Tropical forests harbor high levels of terrestrial biodiversity and are the principal habitat for apes in Africa and Asia (Junker et al., 2012). Numerous agro-industrial crops are found in ape ranges, including oil palm, peanut...