With water resource planning assuming greater importance in environmental protection efforts, analyzing the health of agricultural watersheds using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) becomes essential for decision-makers in Southern Texas. Within the area, there exist numerous threats from conflicting land uses. These include the conversion of land formerly designated for agricultural purpose...

Problem Statement Agricultural water management (AWM) is not a goal in itself but part of a process of resource management that provides a critical input to agricultural production and farmer incomes. Today, huge losses in irrigation systems and poor water management practices worsen the water crises that already exist. Water users were surveyed in order to explore their perception about the fa...

OBJECTIVE Prenatal exposure to organophosphate pesticides can lead to developmental neurotoxicity. A longitudinal birth cohort was established to investigate pesticide exposures from different agricultural activities. Maternal urinary organophosphate metabolites were measured at 28 weeks of pregnancy (n=86), delivery (n=67) and 2 months postpartum (n=51). METHOD Subjects were interviewed with...

Climate resilience in subsistence agricultural communities depends strongly on the robustness and effective management of the agricultural natural resource base. For this reason, adaptation planning efforts frequently focus on natural resource conservation as the primary motivation for and primary outcome of adaptation activities. Here, we present an analysis of the sustainability of community ...

Agriculture is North Carolina's leading source of revenue and its most dangerous industry. This issue brief, along with the commentaries and sidebars in the associated policy forum, addresses the complexity of agricultural health and safety in North Carolina and concludes that the following activities are crucial to reducing the incidence of agricultural illness, injury, and death in the state:...

Agricultural education can help farmers to increase production, preserve natural resources, and provide nutritious food, thus contributing to a better quality of life. The advent of ICT revolution has provided many ways for supporting successfully the agricultural e-education. To this end, this paper focuses on supporting agricultural education through the use of digital learning repositories a...

In this paper, we take the establishment of Poyang Lake Eco-Economic Zone in 2009 as a quasi-natural experiment, to evaluate its influence on the agricultural labor productivity in Jiangxi Province, China. The estimation results of the DID method show that the establishment of the zone reduced agricultural labor productivity by 3.1%, lowering farmers’ net income by 2.5% and reducing the agricul...

In another paper at this workshop, Diana Carney discusses the new, holistic approaches to poverty reduction, and the role of agricultural research. This paper draws directly on her conclusions to examine implications for monitoring and impact assessment activities in agricultural research programmes. Although ‘traditional’ impact assessment techniques based on economic efficiency are necessary ...

O ne of the effective strategies for economic development of clusters is the conduct of networking activities by cluster members. Indeed, the majority of cluster members are micro and small enterprises, so, should attempt to overcome their inherent constraints and influence the market through networking activities. In addition, these enterprises lack an intra-firm research and develo...