Agricultural biotechnology holds a unique position in formulating food and trade policies due to its conflicting aspects: its potential to improve food security especially in developing countries, and the intense debates over its risks and unknown impacts on human health and the environment. Agricultural biotechnology, nevertheless, has been widely utilized to help enhance food security with it...

1. In 2005, following a request from Alun Michael, then Minister for Rural Affairs and Local Environmental Quality, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (RCEP) published a report on the assessment of human health risks associated with the use of agricultural pesticides. The report set out concerns of the RCEP regarding the exposure of bystanders and residents to agricultural pesticides.

Frontier malaria is a biological, ecological, and sociodemographic phenomenon operating over time at three spatial scales (micro/individual, community, and state and national). We explicate these linkages by integrating data from remote sensing surveys, ground-level surveys and ethnographic appraisal, focusing on the Machadinho settlement project in Rondônia, Brazil. Spatially explicit analyses...

Investment in the agricultural sector is important because this sector greatly affects the realms of providing food independence and security, employment, sustainable development, and environmental preservation. So, this study investigated the socio-economic impacts (direct and indirect effects) of the investment development policy on the agricultural sector and its sub-sectors in Iran in 2011 ...

Globally, much weight is currently being placed on agriculture to provide food for the growing population as well as feedstock for the bioenergy industry. Unfortunately, the intensification of agricultural operations to satisfy these growing needs has been associated with a number of environmental and human health risks. A review of publications on the subject was conducted and emphasis was pla...

the farmers of the future (fof) initiative implemented a programme of integrating natural resources management in the basic education curriculum. the purpose of the study was to document activities and determine the effects of fof programme on primary school learners’ perceptions towards natural resources management by comparing learners involved in the fof programme and those not involved. fur...

This study aims to understand the impact of farmers’ risk attitude on livelihood assets and their adaptation strategies cope with climatic changes. An interview-based survey farmers is conducted in China Pakistan, using probit regression models analyze data. The results confirm that Pakistani growers’ natural policy risks, whereas technology information risks China, are main farm production. Fa...

using telser and kataoka models of probabilistic-risky mathematical programming, the present research is to determine the optimized pattern of cultivating the agricultural products of shoshtar region under risky conditions. in order to consider the risk in the mentioned models, time period of agricultural years 1996-1997 till 2004-2005 was taken into account. results from telser and kataoka mod...

this paper tries to comparatively study agricultural products insurance factors and the international agricultural products insurance systems in developed and developing countries. it analyses these supporting systems typology form the view points of variables such as covered risk factors, program insurer and the insured, insurance projects operational fundamentals, insurance system type (priva...