Wood packaging represents a pathway for the introduction and spread of pests. In March 2002, the Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O.) issued some regulations describing globally approved phytosanitary measures that significantly reduce the risk provoked by most of pests. The main purpose of this work is to describe the disinfesting system of pallets through the microwaves treatment.

From the Research Institute for Bioresources and Biotechnology, Ishikawa Prefectural University, Nonoichi, Ishikawa 921-8836, the Department of Biotechnology, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyoku, Tokyo 113-8657, the Graduate School of Biostudies, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 6068502, the National Food Research Institute, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3...

OFFLU is the name of the network of avian influenza expertise inaugurated jointly in 2005 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Organisation for Animal Health. Achievements and constraints to date and plans for the future are described.

The establishment in 1995 of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the adoption of international trade agreements pertaining to food regulation currently have a significant impact on domestic regulatory policies established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other agencies responsible for protecting consumers and ensuring the safety of the...

1Department of Entomology and the Nematology and Chemistry Units, Agricultural Research Organization, The Volcani centre, Derech Hamacabim 68, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 2Department of Entomology, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel 3Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappal...

1Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2Tigray Agriculture Bureau, Tigray, Ethiopia; 3Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 4Ethiopian Health and Nutrition Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 5Suhul Hospital, Tigray, Ethiopia; 6Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; 7Tigray Regional Health Bureau, Tigray, Ethiopia; 8World Healt...

1. The Executive Secretary is please to circulate herewith, for the information of participants in the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, an information a document entitled “A contribution to the international initiative for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators: rapid assessment of pollinators’ status” submitted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United ...

Agricultural knowledge resources are distributive, heterogeneous and polymorphic. Knowledge representation, organization and integrated application is a complicated and challenging problem in the environment of distributed computing. This paper reviews present condition of domestic and foreign researches on agricultural ontology, and introduces the ontology theory and agricultural knowledge rep...

I woke up to the sound of morning glory frying as my host mother, Pikoon Phanloed, cooked up breakfast before starting her morning chores on the farm. I was on one of my first home stays during my fall 2011 semester in northeastern Thailand, living with a family involved in the Alternative Agriculture Network (AAN)—a non-governmental organization that promotes sustainable agriculture. The sun w...

The magnitude of the challenge to stabilize greenhouse gas (GHG) concentrations in the atmosphere and limit average temperature increases makes it imperative that the contributions of all sectors with significant mitigation potential be tapped to the fullest extent possible. Agriculture is recognized as a sector with such potential and farmers, ranchers, herders and other land users around the ...