producers use computers and how (or if) new software technology will be used. Agronomists rely increasingly on computers, and more than half Agricultural producers lagged behind other businesses of all producers have access to computers. Increasing farm computer in computer ownership and use in the 1980s, but observownership has resulted in intensified efforts to transfer new software technolog...

This paper offers a framework for analysing the economic drivers and effects of agrobiodiversity loss, focusing on in-situ conservation at both farm and landscape levels. We distinguish between the proximate and fundamental causes of biodiversity loss in terms of the decentralised (microeconomic) behaviour of farming households. Special attention is paid to the interplay between microeconomic d...

1 Key Laboratory of Farm Animal Genetic Resources and Utilization of the Ministry of Agriculture, Institute of Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 100193 Beijing, China 2 College of Animal Science and Technology, Anhui Agricultural University, 230036 Hefei, China 3 College of Animal Science and Technology, Hebei Agricultural University, 071000 Baoding, China 4 State Key La...

Management practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms or increase on-farm carbon storage can contribute to climate change mitigation. Farmers, however, are only likely to adopt new management practices if they contribute to farm profitability. We use the Agricultural Production Systems sIMulator (APSIM) to simulate how different cropping practices contribute to greenhouse gas aba...

BACKGROUND Agricultural workers experience high rates of occupational injury. There is a lack of analytic studies which provide detailed occupational exposure information to inform intervention development. METHODS A feasibility study simulating a six month prospective cohort study was designed and undertaken. The levels of farm and worker participation and retention were analysed to determin...

Increased agricultural productivity is a key driver of wider agriculture-led economic growth and resilience in many regions heavily burdened by food insecurity, malnutrition, and poverty, and it’s essential to achieving Feed the Future’s objectives, which are guided by the U.S. Government’s Global Food Security Strategy (GFSS). Greater agricultural productivity can increase food availability an...

The basic diversity data of landraces has been found important to monitor the dynamics of crop genetic resource management. The diversity data generated in time and space have been valuable to communtities, scientists and policy managers to formulate and implement conservation strategies of in situ, on-farm as well as ex situ conservation and management of genetic resources. In this paper, we d...

To meet the need of agriculture management modernization of Heilongjiang reclamation area, further boost large-scale integration level of modern agriculture production and boost management level of agriculture production.On Red Farm, we have established the digital management network information system with the remote sensor technology, GIS technology, GPS technology, database technology, netwo...

Funded by Safe Kids Canada The views expressed in this report are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect those of Safe Kids Canada. Safe Kids Canada has developed a national campaign aimed at rural safety. As part of that initiative, it aims to distribute the North American Guidelines for Children's Agricultural Tasks (NAGCAT) to farm families. Their broader rural injury preventio...